APRIL 2008  MBA RANKINGS BY USNews RAW DATA

TOPICS MBA RANKINGS: RAW DATA)

In its April 7-14, 2008 issue, U.S. News and World Report (USN) selected and ranked their chosen top fifty of the 425 master's programs in business accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. No ranking was given or implied for the business schools not within the USN Top Fifty.       This section contains some of the raw data used by U. S. News and World Report to calculate their April 2008 ranking of MBA programs. This USN Ranking is based on a weighted average of eight measures of quality: PEER SCORE (counts 25%), which is based on the score assigned by business school deans and directors, RECRUITER ASSESSMENT SCORE (counts 15%), AVERAGE GMAT SCORE (counts 16.25%), AVERAGE UNDERGRADUATE GPA (counts 7.50%), PROPORTION OF APPLICANTS ACCEPTED (counts 1.25%), AVERAGE STARTING SALARY AND BONUS (counts 14%), EMPLOYMENT RATE AT GRADUATION (counts 7%), and EMPLOYMENT RATE THREE MONTHS LATER (counts 14%).

COLOR CODING FOR THE SECOND COLUMN (TOP FIFTY BUSINESS SCHOOLS). Business schools in the same contiguous color group are not expected to move out of this color group within the next year or two although they may move within their color group; for example, over the next couple of years, we can have some confidence that the USN ranking of UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, and Columbia will continue to be 7, 8, or 9 in some order.

SCORE SCORE AVG   AVERAGE OUT-OF- TOTAL USN TOP FIFTY USN BY BY RE- UNDER- AVG SALARY STATE FULL--TIME RANK BUSINESS SCORE PEERS RECRUIT GRAD GMAT AND TUITION ENROLL-   SCHOOLS   5.0 MAX ERS GPA SCORE BONUS AND FEES MENT                     1.5 Harvard U (MA) 100 4.8 4.4 3.63 713 $135,630 $48,738 1808 1.5 Stanford (CA) 100 4.8 4.4 3.61 721 $134,654 $45,921 741 3 U Pennsylvania 95 4.8 4.2 3.53 712 $132,171 $49,722 1620 5 MIT 93 4.7 4.2 3.50 705 $127,839 $44,792 770 5 Northwestern U (lL) 93 4.7 4.3 3.50 704 $122,932 $43,935 1194 5 University of Chicago 93 4.6 4.3 3.50 709 $126,818 $45,139 1117 7.5 Dartmouth (NH) 89 4.3 4.0 3.46 713 $128,182 $43,240 500 7.5 UC Berkeley 89 4.5 4.0 3.57 710 $116,263 $37,949 504 9 Columbia U (NY) 88 4.4 4.2 3.40 707 $129,427 $45,422 1226 10 New York University 84 4.2 3.9 3.40 700 $124,752 $41,822 839 11 UCLA 83 4.2 3.8 3.60 704 $115,318 $37,286 721 12 U Michigan, Ann Arbor 82 4.4 4.0 3.30 700 $120,408 $43,289 838 13 Yale University (CT) 80 4.2 3.9 3.47 700 $118,964 $47,182 395 15 Cornell University (NY) 79 4.2 3.8 3.31 682 $118,888 $44,260 609 15 Duke University (NC) 79 4.3 4.0 3.38 690 $117,473 $45,663 838 15 University of Virginia 79 4.1 3.8 3.33 688 $121,279 $42,602 651 17 Carnegie Mellon U 77 4.0 3.8 3.32 696 $111,996 $45,644 319 18 U Texas, Austin 74 3.9 3.8 3.38 673 $109,871 $38,222 517 19.5 U North Carolina 72 4.0 3.8 3.27 681 $112,375 $39,882 568 19.5 Indiana U, Bloomington 71 3.8 3.7 3.37 656 $105,296 $34,852 444 21 U Southern California 70 3.9 3.5 3.30 689 $103,317 $40,000 458 22.5 Arizona State U 69 3.5 3.4 3.44 675 $98,318 $28,220 168 22.5 Georgetown U (DC) 69 3.5 3.7 3.26 677 $108,959 $40,017 591 24 Emory University (GA) 68 3.7 3.8 3.30 685 $107,991 $37,576 373 25.5 U Rochester (NY) 66 3.4 3.5 3.52 673 $99,436 $37,791 296 25.5 Washington U (MO) 66 3.6 3.4 3.38 674 $96,559 $38,729 288 27.5 Ohio State University 65 3.6 3.1 3.41 661 $97,622 $35,337 273 27.5 U Minnesota 65 3.6 3.5 3.37 661 $100,104 $36,596 218 30.5 Brigham Young (UT) 64 3.0 3.5 3.53 661 $93,448 $8,700 305 30.5 Georgia Tech 64 3.3 3.6 3.40 665 $88,288 $30,016 153 30.5 Texas A&M U 64 3.3 3.1 3.40 665 $97,496 $25,323 154 30.5 Wisconsin, Madison 64 3.6 3.3 3.37 656 $93,097 $26,536 224 33 Purdue U (IN) 63 3.6 3.6 3.32 662 $96,196 $33,462 281 35.5 Boston College 61 3.4 3.1 3.35 651 $94,271 $37,888 191 35.5 U Florida 61 3.4 3.5 3.40 680 $70,592 $23,103 142 35.5 U Notre Dame (IN) 61 3.4 3.4 3.20 673 $95,263 $36,040 330 35.5 U Washington 61 3.4 3.4 3.38 679 $93,677 $29,543 218 38 U lIIinois 60 3.5 3.3 3.40 627 $92,239 $29,610 208 39 U Maryland 59 3.6 3.0 3.34 650 $99,433 $38,575 237 41.5 Boston University 58 3.0 3.2 3.38 668 $92,634 $35,370 298 41.5 Michigan State U 58 3.4 3.2 3.22 633 $98,557 . $26,131 202 41.5 Pennsylvania SU 58 3.5 3.5 3.30 650 $94,228 $30,122 171 41.5 Rice University (TX) 58 3.2 3.4 3.25 642 $101,529 $35,558 229 45.5 Southern Methodist 57 3.3 3.4 3.30 640 $96,457 $39,010 164 45.5 UC Davis 57 3.2 3.3 3.37 674 $88,701 $34,874 120 45.5 UC Irvine 57 3.3 3.2 3.34 667 $80,092 $37,394 199 45.5 Vanderbilt U (TN) 57 3.5 3.5 3.27 644 $104,032 $38,552 378 48 Babson College (MA) 55 3.4 3.5 3.21 631 $94,037 $35,110 383 49.5 University of Georgia 52 3.4 3.1 3.40 653 $76,517 $28,162 123 49.5 University of Iowa 52 3.2 3.1 3.34 652 $77,952 $24,920 134                       Average (Top 1 - 10) 92.40 4.58 4.19 3.51 709.40 127,867 44,668 1032   Average (Top 11 - 20) 77.60 4.11 3.84 3.37 687.00 115,187 41,888 590   Average (Top 21 - 32) 66.17 3.50 3.45 3.39 670.17 98,720 32,070 292   Average (Top 33 - 43) 59.82 3.40 3.33 3.32 655.91 93,006 32,309 228   Average (Top 44 - 50) 55.29 3.33 3.30 3.32 651.57 88,255 34,003 214   Average (Top 1 - 25) 81.68 4.20 3.93 3.43 694.52 117,942 41,967 724   Average (Top 26 - 50) 59.88 3.39 3.33 3.35 656.76 92,269 31,786 225   Average (Top 1 - 50) 70.78 3.79 3.63 3.39 675.64 105,368 36,877 475