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2011 Economist Business School Rankings

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Doug Midkiff

The Economist released their new Full-Time business school rankings yesterday. You can check out the full list here.

Owen was a HUGE winner in this new ranking. Globally we jumped 12 spots from 46 to 34.

Looking at just the US schools we jumped 7 spots from 29 to 22. No other US school had as big a jump.

As we all know, these rankings have myriad flaws, but the fact that Owen was able to make such a big jump in the positive direction tells me we must be doing something right. According to the Economist, our strongest attributes are:

Diversity of Recruiters (4th place)
Education Experience (7th place)
Faculty Quality (8th place)
Alumni Effectiveness (8th place)

I created a US only top 30 which you can see below. I did this to give a better “apples to apples” comparison ability with some of the other rankings which only rank US schools (Business Week, US News):

You can download my spreadsheet here if you’re super curious and want to do your own analysis.

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Owen By The Numbers

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Blake Knight

US News & World Report released its 2011 list of Best Business Schools today, with Vanderbilt . Outside of the regular rankings, however, there are some other interesting facts to note that lie hidden within the numbers:

  • Owen ranks #19 among private U.S. graduate business schools, and is one of seven programs in the top-30 to focus only on full-time graduate management education (the others include Stanford, Harvard, Tuck, Columbia, Yale, and Duke). All of the others in the top-30 have robust undergraduate and part-time programs. Personally, I have found this to be an unexpected surprise of attending a private school. Coming from Texas A&M where there are 45,000 students, it has been great to be able to have access to the school’s resources without waiting in line. The professors, the printers, the library, the career center, the computer lab are all available at your disposal. This is not something that I necessarily took into consideration when looking at graduate schools, but it is definitely one of my favorite things about our program.
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