The Blue Board

The Bloomberg Businessweek ranking is based on three elements: a survey of newly minted MBAs, a poll of corporate recruiters, and an evaluation of faculty research output. The MBA survey, which measures satisfaction with all aspects of the b-school experience, is combined with two previous MBA surveys. The corporate poll, which asks recruiters to identify the schools that produce the best graduates, is also combined with two previous recruiter surveys. Finally, Bloomberg Businessweek tallies the number of articles published by each school's faculty in 20 top journals and reviews of their books in three national publications. The total for faculty size is then adjusted and an intellectual-capital rating is assigned for each school. The MBA surveys and the recruiter polls each contribute 45% to the final ranking, with the intellectual-capital ranking contributing the final 10%.

I was being facetious. Chicago is outstanding. But the fact remains very few would choose UC over a Harvard or Stanford MBA - unless it was being paid for or they wanted to stay local. You think the ND network is powerful? Harvard dwarfs it and UC's combined x1000. And it's global.

No question about that... and I've eaten in the Harvard Club in NYC and it's ridiculous the conversations you hear in that place. I'm like, "do these people control the world???" LOL...

All nice schools, but Harvard's outreach like you said, is tremendous.

Best overall campus I've seen was UVA. Just a beautiful place -- built and planned by Thomas Jefferson himself.

I think the prettiest single spot on any campus, however, is Alabama's quad. Haven't seen a nicer one anywhere (including many of the Ivies I've visited).

I loved Austin