Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week Which MBA Ranking Do You Trust the Most

Blog Archive B-School Chart of the Week Which MBA Ranking Do You Trust the Most Although quantifying a school’s profile certainly does not tell you everything, it can sometimes be helpful in simplifying the many differences between the various MBA programs. Each week, we bring you a chart to help you decide which of the schools’ strengths speak to you. We recently surveyed a number of visitors to our site to get a feel for the concerns, plans, and mind-sets of this season’s MBA applicants. Now the results are in, and for those who are curious about their fellow applicants’ views on business school, we will be sharing some of the collected data in our B-School Chart of the Week blog series. As part of our informal survey this year, we posed the question “Which business school ranking/survey do you trust the most?” Given that Bloomberg Businessweek has long been considered by many the premier MBA ranking, we were quite surprised to see that only 5.1% of responders picked it as their most trusted source. Instead, a whopping 46.1% indicated that they view the U.S. News World Report survey as the most trustworthy, while the Poets Quants aggregate received the next greatest percentage of the votes, with 33.3%. With just 10.2% and 5.1% of responses, respectively, the Financial Times and The Economist rounded out the survey. Share ThisTweet B-School Charts