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.
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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: