大家都知道美国MBA也好、世界MBA也好都有各种各样的排名，USNEWS，Business Week，Financial Times和Economist等。大家有没有想过，这些排名他的意义是什么呢？在我看来，这些排名他是一个媒体指数，换句话说，某个权威媒体认为某校应该第一，某校应该前十。这些媒体排名一定程度上代表了一种“General Perception”。我们很多同学以这些排名作为风向标，觉得排名高的就是比排名低的更值得去，这点我认为有待商权。为什么呢？因为每个人的要求不同，排名的方法论未必和你在意的属性相一致，这样的话，他所排出来的名次，和你所在意的属性的名次并不重合。举个栗子。在USNEWS的排名方法论中，Mean GMAT and GRE scores 占到高达16.25%的权重，但我的同学的平均GMAT成绩和GRE分数真的对我而言很重要么？如果排名所依赖的属性并不是我们在意的属性，那么根据这些属性排列出来的学校排名对我们的参考价值就有限了。
对于MBA来说，每个人都有自己的需求和在意的东西，对于那些最在意就业的我们来说，如果我们把和就业以外的所有属性全部排除，只根据就业数据来进行排名，我们就能看到最能反映我们的需要的学校排序，那就是就业的排名。
在这里，我斗胆提出一个就业数据指标，那就是MBA学校就业指数＝学生毕业后第一年的平均起始收入 * 毕业三个月内的签约率。换句话说，就是平均毕业生第一年收入的数学期望。这个数据本质上就是，如果你录取了这个学校，你应该期待你的第一年的收入是多少 （Expected Pay）。这个指数同时综合考虑了薪酬值和就业率。
而这两个数据在USNEWS的排名里是公开的。学生毕业后第一年的平均起始收入即为average starting salary and bonus。毕业三个月内的签约率是Offer acceptance rate three months after graduation。
好，根据这个方法论，我们得到的美国MBA项目就业指数排名在本文的最末。Google Doc原始版本，请点击这个链接。这个里面颜色的区分，是说同一颜色的学校之间差距（Delta）并不是很大，可以算作差不多。
接下来是我的解读：
1. 和USNEWS本身的排名相比，此排名中Top30最大的赢家是Rice，在USNEWS仅排名33，但本排名进入到前20。最大的下滑来自于UCLA，从16变成了25。
2. 沃顿以极大优势（5000+ dollars above Tuck）遥遥领先于其他所有学校，排名第一。Tuck的就业数据也强到发指，平均收入和就业率双双高于HBS。
3. 对于还没有申请且目标在Top 30以外的学校的同学，某些学校和USNEWS相比的排名大幅上升，非常值得关注，比如Rutgers， Wake Forest 和University of Tennessee—Knoxville
最后，这个排名虽然有它的价值，显然也有很多局限：
1. Bonus是one time payment。
2. 只考虑了第一年的收入。
3. 就业率低有的时候是因为不少学生去创业了，这种情况在Stanford，HBS，Haas，MIT和UCLA里面比较常见。
美国MBA项目就业指数排名 2014
| Rank by Career Index（expected pay） | USNEWS Rank | Rank +/- | School name | Average starting salary and bonus | Offer acceptance rate three month after graduation | Career Index (Ranked by) | Delta of Expected Pay (number of dollars higher than next one) |
1 | 1 | 0 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 141243 | 93.4% | 131920.96 | 5,676.27 |
2 | 9 | -7 | Dartmouth College (Tuck) | 139036 | 90.8% | 126244.69 | 1,943.13 |
3 | 8 | -5 | Columbia University | 137654 | 90.3% | 124301.56 | 620.24 |
4 | 1 | 3 | Harvard University | 138346 | 89.4% | 123681.32 | 68.74 |
5 | 6 | -1 | Northwestern University (Kellogg) | 135838 | 91.0% | 123612.58 | 140.92 |
6 | 4 | 2 | University of Chicago (Booth) | 135982 | 90.8% | 123471.66 | 111.73 |
7 | 1 | 6 | Stanford University | 137525 | 89.7% | 123359.93 | 359.22 |
8 | 10 | -2 | New York University (Stern) | 131975 | 93.2% | 123000.70 | 185.25 |
9 | 7 | 2 | University of California—Berkeley (Haas) | 134078 | 91.6% | 122815.45 | 2,229.08 |
10 | 11 | -1 | University of Virginia (Darden) | 136102 | 88.6% | 120586.37 | 798.55 |
11 | 5 | 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) | 137057 | 87.4% | 119787.82 | 146.60 |
12 | 11 | 1 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross) | 134883 | 88.7% | 119641.22 | 210.85 |
13 | 20 | -7 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 124148 | 96.2% | 119430.38 | 711.57 |
14 | 18 | -4 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 131181 | 90.5% | 118718.81 | 1,316.04 |
15 | 14 | 1 | Duke University (Fuqua) | 135101 | 86.9% | 117402.77 | 1,710.06 |
16 | 15 | 1 | University of Texas—Austin (McCombs) | 123868 | 93.4% | 115692.71 | 720.75 |
17 | 17 | 0 | Cornell University (Johnson) | 129037 | 89.1% | 114971.97 | 1,200.85 |
18 | 25 | -7 | University of Washington (Foster) | 118759 | 95.8% | 113771.12 | 1,485.99 |
19 | 19 | 0 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill (Kenan--‐Flagler) | 123526 | 90.9% | 112285.13 | 3,765.10 |
20 | 33 | -13 | Rice University (Jones) | 115693 | 93.8% | 108520.03 | 1,156.96 |
21 | 13 | 8 | Yale University | 126013 | 85.2% | 107363.08 | 1,251.40 |
22 | 22 | 0 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 110533 | 96.0% | 106111.68 | 965.62 |
23 | 27 | -4 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 110216 | 95.4% | 105146.06 | 237.47 |
24 | 25 | -1 | Vanderbilt University (Owen) | 113170 | 92.7% | 104908.59 | 428.60 |
25 | 16 | 9 | University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) | 123353 | 84.7% | 104479.99 | 213.01 |
26 | 23 | 3 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 118620 | 87.9% | 104266.98 | 39.40 |
27 | 23 | 4 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 115296 | 90.4% | 104227.58 | 818.95 |
28 | 27 | 1 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 108055 | 95.7% | 103408.64 | 558.74 |
29 | 21 | 8 | Indiana University—Bloomington (Kelley) | 113898 | 90.3% | 102849.89 | 3,020.69 |
30 | 27 | 3 | Ohio State University (Fisher) | 108510 | 92.0% | 99829.20 | 968.66 |
31 | 33 | -2 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Carlson) | 117972 | 83.8% | 98860.54 | 1,917.64 |
32 | 27 | 5 | University of Wisconsin—Madison | 109293 | 88.7% | 96942.89 | 1,024.89 |
33 | 35 | -2 | Michigan State University (Broad) | 102806 | 93.3% | 95918.00 | 1,574.07 |
34 | 27 | 7 | Arizona State University (Carey) | 103903 | 90.8% | 94343.92 | 1,303.10 |
35 | 27 | 8 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 116011 | 80.2% | 93040.82 | 492.09 |
36 | 45 | -9 | Boston University | 103291 | 89.6% | 92548.74 | 692.72 |
37 | 40 | -3 | Purdue University—West Lafayette (Krannert) | 100609 | 91.3% | 91856.02 | 2,327.08 |
38 | 60 | -22 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick and Newark | 94043 | 95.2% | 89528.94 | 480.79 |
39 | 41 | -2 | University of Maryland—College Park (Smith) | 98723 | 90.2% | 89048.15 | 1,608.59 |
40 | 37 | 3 | Texas A&M University—College Station (Mays) | 97480 | 89.7% | 87439.56 | 585.22 |
41 | 48 | -7 | Temple University (Fox) | 93694 | 92.7% | 86854.34 | 118.16 |
42 | 52 | -10 | University of Connecticut | 97566 | 88.9% | 86736.17 | 2,870.02 |
43 | 37 | 6 | University of Rochester (Simon) | 92262 | 90.9% | 83866.16 | 68.51 |
44 | 41 | 3 | University of California—Davis | 88301 | 94.9% | 83797.65 | 621.90 |
45 | 51 | -6 | University of Iowa (Tippie) | 95058 | 87.5% | 83175.75 | 305.68 |
46 | 58 | -12 | Wake Forest University | 93957 | 88.2% | 82870.07 | 713.48 |
47 | 41 | 6 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park (Smeal) | 108961 | 75.4% | 82156.59 | 941.82 |
48 | 45 | 3 | Boston College (Carroll) | 96915 | 83.8% | 81214.77 | 853.97 |
49 | 65 | -16 | University of Tennessee—Knoxville | 100451 | 80.0% | 80360.80 | 106.70 |
50 | 35 | 15 | University of Illinois—Urbana--‐Champaign | 94751 | 84.7% | 80254.10 | 224.75 |
51 | 45 | 6 | University of California—Irvine (Merage) | 89719 | 89.2% | 80029.35 | 2,370.76 |
52 | 48 | 4 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 86096 | 90.2% | 77658.59 | 2,780.54 |
53 | 37 | 16 | University of Texas—Dallas | 83944 | 89.2% | 74878.05 | 463.81 |
54 | 52 | 2 | University of Pittsburgh (Katz) | 84179 | 88.4% | 74414.24 | 470.33 |
55 | 65 | -10 | George Washington University | 87198 | 84.8% | 73943.90 | 280.69 |
56 | 48 | 8 | University of Arizona (Eller) | 86867 | 84.8% | 73663.22 | 520.17 |
57 | 55 | 2 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 100748 | 72.6% | 73143.05 | 918.16 |
58 | 55 | 3 | University of South Carolina (Moore) | 84771 | 85.2% | 72224.89 | 504.20 |
59 | 63 | -4 | Tulane University (Freeman) | 81132 | 88.4% | 71720.69 | 1,767.46 |
60 | 41 | 19 | University of Florida (Hough) | 84281 | 83.0% | 69953.23 | 193.27 |
61 | 65 | -4 | Babson College (Olin) | 85177 | 81.9% | 69759.96 | 64.83 |
62 | 52 | 10 | Northeastern University | 74941 | 93.0% | 69695.13 | 272.18 |
63 | 60 | 3 | University of California—San Diego (Rady) | 83743 | 82.9% | 69422.95 | 2,629.10 |
64 | 63 | 1 | University of Utah (Eccles) | 74630 | 89.5% | 66793.85 | 2.22 |
65 | 65 | 0 | North Carolina State University (Jenkins) | 81354 | 82.1% | 66791.63 | 20.90 |
66 | 76 | -10 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 87282 | 76.5% | 66770.73 | 278.48 |
67 | 80 | -13 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 84061 | 79.1% | 66492.25 | 668.80 |
68 | 65 | 3 | Baylor University (Hankamer) | 72975 | 90.2% | 65823.45 | 772.92 |
69 | 82 | -13 | College of William and Mary (Mason) | 83828 | 77.6% | 65050.53 | 681.38 |
70 | 65 | 5 | University of Oklahoma (Price) | 74158 | 86.8% | 64369.14 | 195.53 |
71 | 65 | 6 | Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) | 79129 | 81.1% | 64173.62 | 1,414.69 |
72 | 100 | -28 | University of St. Thomas | 80667 | 77.8% | 62758.93 | 1,636.30 |
73 | 73 | 0 | Iowa State University | 65794 | 92.9% | 61122.63 | 458.75 |
74 | 55 | 19 | University of Arkansas—Fayetteville (Walton) | 65939 | 92.0% | 60663.88 | 1,747.51 |
75 | 60 | 15 | University of Cincinnati (Lindner) | 67333 | 87.5% | 58916.38 | 905.01 |
76 | 58 | 18 | University of Missouri (Trulaske) | 65997 | 87.9% | 58011.36 | 523.82 |
77 | 82 | -5 | University of Kansas | 61484 | 93.5% | 57487.54 | 802.72 |
78 | 82 | -4 | CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College (Zicklin) | 80404 | 70.5% | 56684.82 | 84.82 |
79 | 87 | -8 | University at Albany—SUNY | 56600 | 100.0% | 56600.00 | 1,410.47 |
80 | 96 | -16 | University of Tulsa (Collins) | 57310 | 96.3% | 55189.53 | 789.93 |
81 | 76 | 5 | Pepperdine University (Graziadio) | 80592 | 67.5% | 54399.60 | 439.76 |
82 | 92 | -10 | University of Illinois—Chicago (Liautaud) | 75574 | 71.4% | 53959.84 | 202.32 |
83 | 96 | -13 | Bentley University (McCallum) | 72941 | 73.7% | 53757.52 | 335.32 |
84 | 65 | 19 | Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (Ourso) | 59358 | 90.0% | 53422.20 | 1,284.39 |
85 | 85 | 0 | Thunderbird School of Global Management | 84915 | 61.4% | 52137.81 | 32.39 |
86 | 85 | 1 | DePaul University (Kellstadt) | 66461 | 78.4% | 52105.42 | 270.16 |
87 | 92 | -5 | University of Houston (Bauer) | 61271 | 84.6% | 51835.27 | 335.31 |
88 | 100 | -12 | American University (Kogod) | 79109 | 65.1% | 51499.96 | 52.35 |
89 | 96 | -7 | University of Miami | 74132 | 69.4% | 51447.61 | 591.06 |
90 | 74 | 16 | University of Alabama (Manderson) | 60688 | 83.8% | 50856.54 | 667.63 |
91 | 80 | 11 | University of Colorado—Boulder (Leeds) | 72949 | 68.8% | 50188.91 | 1,566.27 |
92 | 76 | 16 | Binghamton University—SUNY | 58723 | 82.8% | 48622.64 | 470.39 |
93 | 74 | 19 | University at Buffalo—SUNY | 56187 | 85.7% | 48152.26 | 853.75 |
94 | 79 | 15 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 75077 | 63.0% | 47298.51 | 436.26 |
95 | 87 | 8 | Claremont Graduate University (Drucker) | 62483 | 75.0% | 46862.25 | 2,062.52 |
96 | 87 | 9 | San Diego State University | 58106 | 77.1% | 44799.73 | 1,155.74 |
97 | 92 | 5 | Fordham University | 76838 | 56.8% | 43643.98 | 945.15 |
98 | 87 | 11 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | 69429 | 61.5% | 42698.84 | 19.18 |
99 | 92 | 7 | West Virginia University | 58226 | 73.3% | 42679.66 | 37.88 |
100 | 87 | 13 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 51687 | 82.5% | 42641.78 | 5,970.21 |
101 | 100 | 1 | Mississippi State University | 43347 | 84.6% | 36671.56 | 885.40 |
102 | 100 | 2 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 51864 | 69.0% | 35786.16 |
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