2020-03-23 Bloomberg Businessweek

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Rankings Lesser-KnownB-Schoolsat theTop

Broader survey results can be viewed at:

bloomberg.com/business-schools/

When you want to know the quality of a school’s MBA and its grads, ask the

people who hire them. We did. The answers aren’t all the usual suspects.

Yes, Stanford, Yale, and Insead score well, but so do lesser-known schools

suchasIMD,UniversityofWashington’sFosterSchoolofBusiness,and

GeorgiaTech.Theseresultscomefroma deepdatadiveintoour 2019 - 20

Best B-Schools Ranking, for which Bloomberg Businessweek last year

surveyed 985 employers around the world who recruit MBAs (survey

details below). We highlighted four questions for a Quarterly Recruiters

Update. �Caleb Solomon, Mathieu Benhamou, and Alexander McIntyre

Graduatesfromthisschoolare

innovativeandcreative

If creativityandinnovationarea priority,Georgetown’sMcDonoughSchoolof

Businesscomesfirstonrecruiters’listin oursurvey.Foster,BrighamYoung’s

MarriottSchoolofBusiness,GeorgiaTech’sSchellerCollegeofBusiness,

andVirginia’sDardenSchoolofBusinessroundoutthetopfive.

① Georgetown(McDonough) 5.79

② Washington(Foster) 5.78

③ BrighamYoung(Marriott) 5.64

③ GeorgiaTech(Scheller) 5.64

⑤ Virginia(Darden) 5.61

⑥ Yale 5.60

⑦ Stanford 5.58

⑧ CarnegieMellon(Tepper) 5.55

⑨ Maryland(Smith) 5.50

⑨ UCBerkeley(Haas) 5.50

The value of this school’s brand

is high and gives graduates a big

advantage in their careers

If you want doors to open wide because of the sheen of your MBA, head to

Lausanne, Switzerland; Cambridge, Mass.; Palo Alto; Seattle; or Philadelphia.

They’re home to, respectively, IMD, Harvard, Stanford, Foster, and Wharton,

topsin themindsofrecruitersforschoolswiththebestbrands.

Rank School Score

① IMD 6.00

② Harvard 5.83

③ Stanford 5.75

③ Washington(Foster) 5.75

⑤ Pennsylvania(Wharton) 5.74

⑥ Dartmouth(Tuck) 5.69

⑦ LondonBusinessSchool 5.67

⑧ Insead 5.66

⑨ Northwestern(Kellogg) 5.63

⑨ Virginia (Darden) 5.63

Theschoolprovidesa diversepool

ofqualitycandidates

If youseeka poolofquality,diversegrads,lookfirsttoInsead,withitslong-

standinglargecampusesin Fontainebleau,France,andSingapore,andits

recentlyopenedSanFranciscoinnovationhub.Therestofthetopfiveare

IMD,LondonBusinessSchool,Georgetown,andFoster.

① Insead 5.74

② IMD 5.71

③ LondonBusinessSchool 5.59

④ Georgetown(McDonough) 5.56

⑤ Washington(Foster) 5.50

⑥ Yale 5.47

⑦ UCBerkeley(Haas) 5.44

⑧ Northwestern(Kellogg) 5.43

⑨ GeorgiaTech(Scheller) 5.42

⑩ TexasatAustin(McCombs) 5.36

Students from this school show

exceptional entrepreneurial skills

and drive

If the skills of entrepreneurship are what you value most, look to the U.S.

West Coast, where Foster and Stanford come in Nos. 1 and 2, respectively.

Then head east, to Maryland’s Smith School of Business, Georgia Tech,

andGeorgetown.

① Washington(Foster) 5.56

② Stanford 5.50

③ Maryland(Smith) 5.38

④ GeorgiaTech(Scheller) 5.33

⑤ Georgetown(McDonough) 5.30

⑥ Yale 5.29

⑦ Virginia(Darden) 5.27

⑧ Insead 5.19

⑨ UCBerkeley(Haas) 5.17

⑩ Brigham Young (Marriott) 5.15