Schools

1
Ranking Business Schools

• What are the main sources of data used to rank
  schools?

• Schools responses to students demands from
  MBA courses
• Level and percentage increase in student salary
  after completing MBA
• Academic research conducted in school
• Opinions of corporate recruiters
• Size of school
• Student opinions

2
Ranking Business Schools

• Rankings should assess if students are better
• managers after taking MBA. Which measure
• comes closest to addressing this issue?

• Student salary changes after MBA course

• What assumptions are made by the student salary
  measure?

• Salary is related to job performance

3
Ranking Business Schools

• What is the problem with using student
• opinions to judge quality?

• Students do not have comparative information
  they usually only attend one school
• Student opinions are like using participant
  reactions to training
• Remember Intuition-based HR slide!

4
Ranking Business Schools

• What is the problem with using corporate
  recruiters?

• Schools choose which recruiters to consult
• Recruiters are usually Alumni
• Alumni tend to like Alma maters
• Number of corporate recruiters correlated with
  number of students graduating from school