《经济学家》的全球MBA项目2004年度排名

Once again, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2004 ranking of full-time MBA programmes underlines the dominance of US schools. Sixteen of the top 20 are US schools, with Kellogg ranking number one for the third successive year, and Stanford, Tuck, Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, Wharton and Stern all featuring in the top ten. The only European schools to feature in the top ten are IMD in Switzerland, fifth, and IESE in Spain, ninth.
The top 10 schools
1.Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
2.Stanford Graduate School of Business
3.Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
4.Harvard Business School
5.IMD - International Institute for Management Development
6.Chicago, University of - Graduate School of Business
7.Columbia Business School
8.Pennsylvania, University of - Wharton School
9.IESE Business School - University of Navarra
10.New York University - Leonard N Stern School of Business

See the full ranking here.
The main things that set these schools apart are a robust programme and excellent faculty. But what they often also possess is a strong collegiate sense. This manifests itself in the number of students who take part in our survey. Although the number of questionnaires returned does not have a direct impact on a school’s ranking, as long as a minimum threshold is reached, this esprit de corps obviously has a big effect on the way its students and graduates respond to the questionnaire. Once again, Kellogg had the highest number of student and graduate responses, at 893, and it is famous for its determination to involve students in all aspects of running the school. Michigan, Goizueta, Tuck and Cornell also had high numbers of student responses.
However, although the position of the top US schools seems entrenched, two European schools, IESE and Vlerick Leuven Gent, have put in stellar performances and have both moved significantly up the ranking. Vlerick’s perhaps surprising rise has come in the wake of major efforts to improve both its careers services—which have impressed many students—and its alumni network.
To find the highest ranked school in Asia and Australasia (excluding INSEAD, which has campuses in both France and Singapore), it is necessary to look down to 50th place, which is filled by Australia’s Macquarie Graduate School of Management. This highlights a clear regional pecking order when it comes to full-time MBA programmes: North America leads the way, followed by Europe, and then Asia and Australasia, which still has a lot of ground to make up
US schools generally do particularly well in the “open new career opportunities” category. This is partly because careers services in the US are often more lavishly funded, better organised and more professionally set up than in the rest of the world. At Stanford, for example, 86% of students find a job within three months of graduating, all via the school’s careers services.
Top ten schools by category    Open new career opportunitiesPersonal development
and educational experienceIncrease salary          Potential to network
1.Indian Institute (Ahmedabad)  Pennsylvania (Wharton) AshridgeHenley
2.Dartmouth (Tuck)StanfordHenleyE.M. Lyon
3.Northwestern (Kellogg)MacquarieAstonHEC, Paris
4.ChicagoNorthwestern (Kellogg)IMDQueen’s
5.ColumbiaDartmouth (Tuck)EdinburghVlerick Leuven Gent
6.StanfordINSEADWarwickIMD
7.HarvardLondonNorthwestern (Kellogg)Thunderbird (Garvin)
8.IESEVlerick Leuven GentBirminghamVirginia (Darden)
9.China Europe International Business SchoolNew York (Stern)StanfordSouth Carolina (Moore)
10.IEHarvardOxford (Saïd)IE

US schools also dominate the personal development and educational experience category. US institutions invest heavily in their faculty. It is not unusual to find that everyone teaching on a top US programme has a PhD; this is the case at Wharton and UCLA, for example. They are also choosy about the students they admit. Eleven US schools, including Stanford, Wharton, MIT (Sloan) and Columbia, have average GMAT scores over 700 (the maximum GMAT score is 800).
Where European schools do beat their US counterparts is, perhaps surprisingly, in the salaries of their graduates. At Ashridge in the UK, for example, graduates can expect to earn an average of US$177,000 per year; at Henley and IMD the figure is around US$125,000. In contrast, no US schools can boast average salaries in the six-figure bracket. Some of this can be explained by the strength of European currencies against the dollar, but it is also a reflection of the relatively weak job market in the US, particularly when compared with the UK.
European schools, which often have more international alumni, also do well in the networking category.

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