The Economist’s annual Which MBA? is out:
Haas stays at #3, Columbia moves up to #12.
Booth jumps to the top spot where it often is on other lists and seems anecdotally accurate based on how impressive the Chicago grads I have met are.
Different schools have different strengths of course. Columbia is a superb finance school (also v good if you want to become a consultant), Haas very strong on tech / green tech and better on entrepreneurship too (planning an expanded CBS v Haas post soon).
I am pretty sure there’s a way to define your own personal rankings by changing the weights of the metrics used to assess the schools but I can’t seem to find it on the website. Might be on the iPhone app though it seems the new version hasn’t made it to the app store yet.
Here’s the ranking broken down by category:

And finally there’s a look at the ROI’s at various schools:
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