Author: Haas News

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) ranks #1 in the US, according to a ranking published today (Oct. 27) by QuantNet, a financial engineering web site. Last year, the Berkeley MFE placed #2.

The Berkeley MFE tied for #1 this year with Baruch College, City University of New York, and Carnegie Mellon University. The program again ranked #1 this year for employment outcomes.

QuantNet surveys program administrators, hiring managers and quantitative finance professionals from financial institutions around the world. Its ranking is based on the following factors (with weight distribution in parentheses): peer assessment (20%), placement success (55%), student selectivity (25%).

The MFE program is the second Berkeley-Haas degree program to rise to the top in its category, joining our Evening & Weekend MBA program, ranked the #1 part-time program in the US by US News & World Report.

View the full report at https://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/.

The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program ranked #7 worldwide in The Economist’s “Which MBA?” ranking, published on October 13.

A total of 100 schools were included in the ranking.

The four major categories of ranking criteria are: new career opportunities (35% weighting), personal development and educational experience (35%), increasing salary (20%) and the potential to network (10%). Surveys are sent to the business school asking for quantitative data, and to MBA students and recent graduates who are asked qualitative questions about their program.

This is one of many rankings of full-time MBA programs by the media. Earlier this year, the Full-time MBA Program was ranked #7 among US schools by U.S. News & World Report, and #5 in the US (#7 worldwide) by the Financial Times.

The Haas Undergraduate Program again earned the #2 spot in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of the country’s best undergrad business programs, tied with MIT Sloan. This is the fourth year Haas has ranked #2. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School ranked #1.

The 2017 Best Colleges ranking, released by U.S. News today, is based on a peer poll of business school deans and faculty/undergraduate directors, who are asked to rate the quality of business programs that they’re familiar on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). Two years of data were used to calculate the peer assessment score.

Deans and faculty members also were asked to nominate the 10 best programs in a number of specialty areas. The five schools receiving the most mentions in the 2015 survey are included in the report.

In the specialty rankings, Haas ranked as follows:

• #4 in entrepreneurship
• #2 in management
• #3 in marketing (tied with NYU)
• #6 in finance
• #3 in real estate
• #5 in quantitative analysis
• #3 in international business
• #6 in production/operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

UC Berkeley was ranked the #1 public university worldwide in the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Berkeley placed third overall in the ARWU ranking, up one slot from its 2015 ranking, published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The ARWU rankings emphasize the quality of faculty and research.

Berkeley led a list of four University of California campuses that are among the top 25 in the ARWU rankings. UCLA ranked 12th, UC San Diego ranked 14th, and UCSF ranked 21st.

Berkeley has ranked among the top four institutions every year since 2003, the year the ARWU rankings debuted. More than 1,200 universities are ranked by ARWU every year and the top 500 are published, according to ARWU. The full list can be viewed on the ARWU website.

Meantime, U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Berkeley-Haas #3 in its report on the “10 Best Business Schools for an International MBA.” The report noted that the International Business Development Program (IBD) at Berkeley-Haas provides an “international edge.”

Read the U.S. News & World Report article here.

Update: Read about how the Haas School of Business ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Business Schools 2018.

The Evening & Weekend MBA Program ranked #1 among part-time programs for the fourth straight year in U.S. News & World Report ‘s Best Business Schools 2017. The Full-time Berkeley MBA ranked #7 among US programs, while the Berkeley MBA for Executives—in only its third year—moved up to #8.

In other specialty rankings, the Berkeley MBA ranked:

• #3 in international
• #4 in nonprofit
• #5 in entrepreneurship
• #7 in finance
• #7 in management
• #9 in marketing

The full-time MBA rankings are based on program data provided by participating US schools and on polls of business school deans and directors of accredited MBA programs, as well as of corporate recruiters and company contacts. The score is calculated from:

• Peer poll: 25%
• Average of the last three years of recruiter polls: 15%
• Placement success and starting salary: 35%
• Student selectivity (GMAT & GRE scores, undergraduate GPA, acceptance rate): 25%

The part-time MBA ranking is based on:

• Average peer assessment score: 50%
• Average GMAT & GRE scores of students entering in the fall of 2015: 15%
• Average undergraduate GPA: 5%
• Work experience:15%
• Percentage the fall 2015 MBA enrollment that is part time: 15%

The executive MBA and other specialty rankings are based solely on ratings by deans and full-time MBA directors at peer schools.

Find the full report here.

U.S. News & World Report’s Best Business Schools, published March 16, is one of many rankings of full-time MBA programs by the media. Earlier in 2016, the school’s Full-time Berkeley MBA Program was ranked #7 in the world, and #5 among US schools, in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking. The two schools that Haas moved ahead of to reach #5 were Chicago and MIT.

Compare all three Berkeley MBA programs.

The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program ranked #5 among US schools and #7 in the world, according to the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking published today (Jan. 25).In the top ten specialty rankings, the Berkeley MBA ranked #2 for e-business, #4 for entrepreneurship, and #6 for IT/computing. It also ranked #10 among MBA programs from which alumni would recruit graduates. Haas ranked #11 in faculty research.

Data for the annual ranking is gathered from an alumni survey of the full-time MBA class of 2012 and from participating schools.

“Over the past eight years the school has experienced sharp improvement in this ranking,” said Dean Rich Lyons. “Our advance is primarily due to our graduates’ ability to command higher salaries post graduation, even relative to other great schools.”

Alumni responses inform eight criteria that together contribute 59% of the ranking’s weight — alumni income and salary increase within three years alone account for 40%. Most of the alumni-based criteria draw on responses from the past three years. The most recent survey carries 50% of the total weight, and the two prior surveys carry 25% each.

Eleven criteria, calculated from school data, account for the remaining 31% of the final ranking. These measure the diversity of the faculty, board members, and students by gender and nationality, and the international mobility and experience of the MBAs.

The faculty research rank, which accounts for 10% of the ranking, is calculated according to the number of articles by full-time faculty in 45 internationally recognized academic and practitioner journals. The rank combines the number of publications from January 2013 to October 2015, with the number weighted relative to the size of each school’s faculty.

This is one of many rankings of full-time MBA programs by the media. In 2015, the school’s Full-time Berkeley MBA Program was ranked #7 among U.S. schools in U.S. News & World Report.

In addition to rankings, Berkeley-Haas also uses an internal measure of relative reputation based on how many students who also have been admitted at other schools choose Haas. By that measure Haas is tied for 6th.

See the full Financial Times Global MBA report.

Berkeley-Haas moved up in this year’s Poets & Quants “meta” ranking of US full-time MBA programs.

Haas scored #8 in a combination of the top five most influential rankings.

The Poets & Quants ranking is a meta ranking. It combines the latest results of five business school rankings: U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times, and The Economist. Each ranking is separately weighted: U.S. News is given a weight of 35%; Forbes, 25%; Financial Times and Businessweek, 15%; and The Economist, 10%.

This is one of many rankings of full-time MBA programs by the media. In 2015, the school’s Full-time Berkeley MBA Program was also ranked #7 among U.S. schools by both U.S. News and the Financial Times.

Full report:

Bloomberg Businessweek ranked both the Berkeley-Haas Full-time MBA Program and the Evening & Weekend MBA Program at #9 among US business schools in a report published Oct. 20.

Both rankings are based on new methodologies for 2015. Full-time programs were ranked based on results of an alumni survey, a recruiter survey, a student survey, and job placement and salary statistics. Part-time programs were ranked on only two measures: an alumni survey and a student survey.

This is one of many rankings of full-time and part-time MBA programs by the media. In 2015, the school’s Full-time Berkeley MBA Program was ranked #7 among U.S. schools by both U.S. News and the Financial Times. The Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA Program was ranked #1 among U.S. part-time programs for the past three years by U.S. News.

The Full-Time Berkeley MBA Program is #5 in the U.S. and #6 in the world in The Economist “Which MBA?” ranking released on Oct. 15.

The magazine’s 2015 global ranking for Berkeley-Haas is up one place from last year; the U.S. ranking remains the same.

A total of 100 schools were included in the ranking.

The four major categories of ranking criteria are: new career opportunities (35% weighting), personal development and educational experience (35%), increasing salary (20%) and the potential to network (10%).  Surveys are sent to the business school asking for quantitative data, and to MBA students who are asked qualitative questions about their program.

This is one of many rankings of full-time MBA programs by the media. In 2015, the school’s Full-Time MBA Program was ranked #7 among US schools by both US News and the Financial Times.

Berkeley-Haas ranked #1 for best employment outcomes and #2 overall in the 2015 QuantNet Rankings for best financial engineering programs.

Moving up from the #4 slot last year for best overall program, the Berkeley-Haas MFE program tied for #2 with Columbia University and Baruch College, the City University of New York. A total of 30 programs were included on the list, which was released Oct. 6.

Carnegie Mellon University ranked #1 overall.

The Berkeley-Haas MFE program also topped QuantNet’s list of 10 schools with the best employment outcomes, tied for #1 with Princeton.

This is the 4th annual survey for QuantNet, an online resource for financial engineering education and news. For the ranking, QuantNet surveyed program administrators, hiring managers, corporate recruiters, and finance professionals.

The Berkeley MFE received a peer assessment score of 4.1 out of 5, and an overall score of 98 out of 100.

By Gabby Luu

The Full-Time Berkeley MBA program moved up six spots to #8 on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Business Schools 2015.

The ranking is based on the five-year return on investment achieved by the classes of 2010—taking into account the opportunity costs of forgone salary, tuition, and required fees. For the full-time Berkeley program, the five-year ROI was $64,200.

The program was ranked #14 in 2013, the publication’s last ranking. Forbes has ranked the top MBA programs based on their ROI biennially since 1999.

“Despite the slow start to their post-MBA careers, the class of 2010 has rebounded well,” Forbes reports. “Total compensation is up 9.3% annually on average for the 2010 graduates of the top 25 U.S. business schools.”

Stanford topped the 2015 list of America’s best business schools. Forbes also ranked one- and two-year international programs, reported separately. All told, Forbes surveyed 17,400 alumni at 95 schools globally to gather five-year earnings data.

The rankings issue will be on newsstands on Friday.

There are many rankings of FTMBA programs, most of which measure a much wider set of attributes than Forbes. In U.S. News, for example, the Berkeley FTMBA program ranks #7. In the Financial Times it ranks among U.S. business schools at #7.

The Haas Undergraduate Program again snagged the #2 spot in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of the country’s best undergrad business programs, tied with MIT. This is the third year Haas has ranked #2. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School ranked #1.

The U.S. News Best Colleges ranking, released today, is based on a peer poll of business school deans and faculty/undergraduate directors, who are asked to rate the quality of business programs that they’re familiar on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). Two years of data were used to calculate the peer assessment score.

Deans and faculty members also were asked to nominate the 10 best programs in a number of specialty areas. The five schools receiving the most mentions in the 2015 survey are included in the report.

In the specialty rankings, Haas ranked as follows:

#4 in entrepreneurship
#3 in management
#4 in marketing
#5 in finance
#4 in real estate
#4 in quantitative analysis
#5 in international business
#5 in production/operations

The Evening & Weekend MBA Program again ranked #1 among part-time programs in the US for the third year in a row in the annual US News & World Report, published March 10. The Full-time Berkeley MBA program ranked #7 for the eighth year in a row. The Berkeley MBA for Executives remained at #9 among EMBA programs rated in the specialty rankings.

Among other specialty rankings, the Berkeley MBA placed as follows:

#3 in nonprofit
#5 in entrepreneurship
#7 in finance
#7 in international (tied with Harvard Business School)
#8 in management
#10 in marketing

The full-time MBA rankings are based on program data provided by participating schools and on polls of business school deans and directors of accredited MBA programs, as well as of corporate recruiters and company contacts. The peer and employer polls are weighted by .25.

Placement success is weighted by .35: starting salary and bonus (40 percent of this measure) and employment rates for full-time 2014 graduates at graduation (20 percent) and three months later (40 percent); Student selectivity (.25): average GMAT and GRE scores (65 percent), average undergraduate GPA (30 percent), and the proportion of applicants accepted by the school (5 percent).

The part-time ranking is based on average peer assessment score (50 percent of the overall score); average GMAT score and GRE scores of part-time MBA students entering in the fall of 2014 (15 percent); average undergraduate GPA (5 percent); work experience (15 percent); and the percentage of the fall 2014 MBA enrollment that is part time (15 percent). The average peer assessment score is calculated from a fall 2014 survey that asked business school deans and MBA program directors at each of the nation’s 323 part-time MBA programs.

The EMBA and other specialty rankings are based solely on ratings by peer schools.

Find the full report here. (Registration required).