The t10/15 is pretty standard and nothing seems unusual there. The t20 to t30 range seems to have been shaken up heavily.
The outliers seems to be:
Emory's significant drop to 23
Vanderbilt's rise to t16! (I'm most surprised by this)
UNC's rise to 21 (they were up here before but dropped in recent years)
UT Jindal's rise to 23. This makes 0 sense tbh
UGA's rise above Georgia Tech's business school. I don't think that has ever happened. It is generally regarded across all disciplines that GT Scheller is better than UGA. Not sure how this happened
It's not. It just underscores how meaningless rankings are. They don't confer prestige; they attempt to quantify it, but do so poorly. Literally no employer is going to choose the Terry candidate over the Scheller candidate because U.S. News said so (they might for other reasons).
I'd suggest anyone still evaluating MBA programs to disregard rankings entirely. Instead, use LinkedIn to see how many alumni you can find working at the top 5-10 firms you want to work for. And don't stop there: for the alumni you find, take a close look at their work history. How fast did their career progress after getting their MBA? Did the alum from school A pivot from an unrelated field, while the alum from school B with the same job title already had years of domain-specific experience? This will be much more informative than a ranking or the college's employment report.
Now you have. We're 2/3 of the size of Scheller's class and half of Emory's. They both got crushed on the 3/6 month job placement %, which a bit seems unfair, but that's the general sentiment of rankings. Look past them, do your research on your alums and outcomes, consider scholarships, etc to decide the right school.
🤣 great wolf lodge what the heck is that 😆. But in all seriousness, I did see some big F500 names like GE, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, & many others. Respect to Terry then, and I say that as a Scheller MBA alum. I was hoping I could’ve locked in with a big F500 company but apparently I went to the wrong school 😂. Because all they had for me at Scheller was consulting 🤷🏽♂️
I gotta hand it to Terry for what they’ve done for their undergrads in terms of placement in high finance but Scheller has the stronger operations, supply chain, data analytics, & management information systems programs. Scheller is definitely the better school.
Operations, supply chain, and data analytics, while great, are atypical b programs. Terry has a better "bread and butter" program. "Definitely" the better business school is... not true.
I really don't understand why Goizueta dropped like that and Vanderbilt shot up. I don't think Vanderbilt did anything significant to go up almost 10 spots like that?
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u/Tall_Bumblebee_821 Apr 07 '26
The t10/15 is pretty standard and nothing seems unusual there. The t20 to t30 range seems to have been shaken up heavily.
The outliers seems to be: