Businessweek Guide to the Best Business Schools

by Gruber, Betsy; Littman, Margaret; Merritt, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780071378246
• ISBN10: 0071378243
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Based on one of "BusinessWeek"Us bestselling annual issues, and featuring in-depth surveys of 14,000 graduates and the recruiters who have hired them, this guide evaluates the top business schools objectively. 30 illustrations.

Table of Contents

Preface
Why Go for the MBA?	p. 1
What are MBA Students Like?	p. 5
All MBAs Are Not Created Equal	p. 7
A Top MBA Degree Rarely Comes Cheap	p. 9
Seek a School That Matches Your Interests	p. 11
How to Get into One of the Best B-Schools	p. 15
Zipping through the Application	p. 17
Preparing for the GMAT	p. 20
Should You Take a GMAT Prep Course?	p. 23
Creating a Personal Marketing Strategy	p. 25
Crafting the Perfect B-School Essay	p. 27
Preparing for the Interview	p. 30
Managing Your Recommenders	p. 32
How to Get a School to Foot Part of the Tuition Bill	p. 33
Ranking the B-Schools	p. 37
Business Week's Top 30 Business Schools	p. 39
B-School by the Numbers	p. 54
GMAT Scores	p. 55
B-School Selectivity	p. 56
Full-Time Enrollments	p. 57
International Enrollments	p. 58
Women MBA Enrollments	p. 59
Minority Enrollments	p. 60
Pre-MBA Salaries	p. 61
Starting Pay Packages	p. 62
Total MBA Investment	p. 63
The Top 30	p. 64
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	p. 65
Northwestern University (Kellogg)	p. 72
Harvard University	p. 80
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)	p. 87
Duke University (Fuqua)	p. 95
University of Michigan	p. 102
Columbia University	p. 111
Cornell University (Johnson)	p. 119
University of Virginia (Darden)	p. 127
University of Chicago	p. 135
Stanford University	p. 142
University of California at Los Angeles (Anderson)	p. 150
New York University (Stern)	p. 156
Carnegie Mellon University	p. 162
University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	p. 171
Dartmouth College (Tuck)	p. 180
University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)	p. 186
University of California at Berkeley (Haas)	p. 194
Yale University	p. 203
Indiana University (Kelley)	p. 211
University of Rochester (Simon)	p. 217
Vanderbilt University (Owen)	p. 224
Washington University (Olin)	p. 230
University of Southern California (Marshall)	p. 237
Purdue University (Krannert)	p. 244
Georgetown University (McDonough)	p. 251
University of Maryland, College Park (Smith)	p. 257
Emory University (Goizueta)	p. 264
Michigan State University (Broad)	p. 270
Georgia Institute of Technology (DuPree)	p. 277
The Runners-Up	p. 284
Arizona Sate University	p. 286
Babson College (Olin)	p. 291
Boston University	p. 296
The College of William and Mary	p. 302
Ohio State University (Fisher)	p. 306
Pennsylvania State University (Smeal)	p. 312
Rice University (Jones)	p. 318
Southern Methodist University (Cox)	p. 323
Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management	p. 329
University of California at Davis	p. 334
University of California at Irvine	p. 339
University of Florida (Warrington)	p. 345
University of Georgia (Terry)	p. 350
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	p. 355
University of Iowa (Tippie)	p. 361
University of Minnesota (Carlson)	p. 366
University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)	p. 372
University of Pittsburgh (Katz)	p. 377
University of Wisconsin - Madison	p. 383
Wake Forest University (Babcock)	p. 389
The Best Business Schools Outside the United States	p. 394
INSEAD	p. 400
London Business School	p. 403
IESE - International Graduate School of Management	p. 406
IMD - International Institute of Management Development	p. 408
The University of Western Ontario (Ivey)	p. 410
Rotterdam School of Management	p. 413
University of Toronto (Rotman)	p. 416
Index	p. 419
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