Recruiters’ Scorecard
Highlights from The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters on business schools
NATIONAL RANKING
The National ranking is based on how recruiters rated each school on 20 different attributes, their future plans to recruit at the school, and the number of survey respondents who said they had recruited recently at the school. These schools enjoy a national reputation and tend to draw recruiters from many of the same companies, usually large national and multinational firms that pay high starting salaries.
2005 2004 Rank Rank University (Business School)
REGIONAL RANKING
The Regional ranking is based on how recruiters rated each school on 20 different attributes, their future plans to recruit at the school, and the number of survey respondents who said they had recruited recently at the school. These schools tend to draw many of their recruiters from their local regions.
2005 Rank 2004 Rank University (Business School)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 7 20 6 7 13 5 8 5 5 7 5 13 6 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 Dartmouth College (Tuck) University of Michigan (Ross) Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Northwestern University (Kellogg) Yale University University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) University of California, Berkeley (Haas) Columbia University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) University of Southern California (Marshall) University of Virginia (Darden) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) University of Chicago Harvard University Stanford University New York University (Stern) Duke University (Fuqua) Cornell University (Johnson) University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
1 8 3 10 11 5 17 9 7 16 13 19 15 -4 -20 6 25 14 2 24 12 -18 30 21 31 27 38 37 32 26 33 -29 22 36 34 41 39 40 35 --43 --
Purdue University (Krannert) Michigan State University (Broad) Ohio State University (Fisher) Thunderbird (Garvin) IPADE Brigham Young University (Marriott) Wake Forest University (Babcock) University of Denver (Daniels) Tecnologico de Monterrey University of Miami Indiana University (Kelley) Emory University (Goizueta) University at Buffalo/SUNY Fordham University University of Maryland (Smith) University of Iowa (Tippie) University of Rochester (Simon) Texas Christian University (Neeley) College of William and Mary Southern Methodist University (Cox) Vanderbilt University (Owen) Rice University (Jones) University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Arizona (Eller) Washington University (Olin) University of Utah (Eccles) University of Florida (Warrington) Texas A&M University (Mays) University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) University of Georgia (Terry) George Washington University University of Minnesota (Carlson) Pennsylvania State University (Smeal) University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Texas, Austin (McCombs) University of Washington University of Pittsburgh (Katz) Georgetown University (McDonough) University of California, Irvine (Merage) Arizona State University (Carey) Boston University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Western Ontario (Ivey) University of California, Davis Georgia Institute of Technology York University (Schulich) University of Colorado, Boulder (Leeds)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
3 1 2 7 6 4 15 8 11 -12 9 5 13 10 17 14 18 19
INTERNATIONAL RANKING
This ranking includes European, North American and Central American schools that have a global pool of recruiters. It is based on how recruiters rated each school on 20 different attributes, their future plans to recruit students from the school, and the number of countries from which it draws recruiters. To be eligible for this ranking, a school needed respondents from at least four countries.
2005 Rank 2004 Rank University (Business School) Number of Countries Recruiters Come From
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1 3 --2 -8 5 12 -4 20 13 15 14 11 16 10 18 --
IMD, International Institute for Management Development ESADE Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) IPADE London Business School University of Western Ontario (Ivey) Thunderbird (Garvin) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Insead INCAE HEC Paris Instituto de Empresa Columbia University Erasmus University (Rotterdam) York University (Schulich) University of Chicago Harvard University Stanford University IESE Bocconi University
15 12 6 4 20 8 5
HONOR ROLL
Recruiters named these schools most often when asked which M.B.A. programs excel in the following academic disciplines. Based on total nominations by recruiters in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey in 2004 and 2005.
Number of Nominations Number of Nominations Number of Nominations
1 2 3 4 5
ACCOUNTING University of Chicago
4 200 197 133 92 82 430 229 172 1 116 105 2 3 4 5 722 472 182 1 1 2 3 4 5 5
New York University (Stern) Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
139 133
2 3 4 5
University of Michigan (Ross) Duke University (Fuqua) Indiana University (Kelley) Harvard University
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
123 94 93 89
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) University of Texas (McCombs) Brigham Young University (Marriott) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Stanford University University of California, Irvine (Merage) University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
637 1 365 168 80 77 649 265 196 139 107 1 2 3 4 5 1,304 2 3 4 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Purdue University (Krannert) University of Michigan (Ross) Michigan State University (Broad)
STRATEGY
324 314 160 129 88 996 190 136 134 112
1 2 3 4 5
Babson College (F.W. Olin) Harvard University University of California, Berkeley (Haas) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
FINANCE University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Thunderbird (Garvin) Insead Harvard University Columbia University University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
MARKETING
Harvard University Stanford University Dartmouth College (Tuck) University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Northwestern University (Kellogg)
1 2 3
University of Chicago Columbia University
Northwestern University (Kellogg)
TOP SCHOOLS FOR RECRUITING WOMEN
Recruiters named these schools most often when asked which M.B.A. programs are best for hiring women graduates. The list is based on total nominations in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey in both 2004 and 2005.
Rank University (Business School) Number of Nominations
TOP SCHOOLS FOR RECRUITING M.B.A.S WITH HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS
Recruiters named these schools most often when asked which M.B.A. programs are best for hiring graduates with strong ethical standards. The list is based on total nominations in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey in both 2004 and 2005.
Rank University (Business School) Number of Nominations
1 2 3 4 5
Columbia University Northwestern University (Kellogg) Stanford University University of Michigan (Ross) University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
123 116 73 67 64 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 10 Yale University Brigham Young University (Marriott) Dartmouth College (Tuck) University of Denver (Daniels) University of Virginia (Darden) University of California, Berkeley (Haas) IPADE University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Stanford University Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) ESADE University of Michigan (Ross) 131 127 122 101 92 72 70 67 61 51 51 51
TOP SCHOOLS FOR RECRUITING MINORITIES
Recruiters named these schools most often when asked which M.B.A. programs are best for hiring minority graduates. The list is based on total nominations in The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey in both 2004 and 2005.
Rank University (Business School) Number of Nominations
1 2 3 4 5
University of Michigan (Ross) Howard University Columbia University Harvard University University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
113 105 67 55 52
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schools based on The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters, go to CareerJournal.com/bschool.