Category: Rankings

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.

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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).

The Berkeley MBA ranked #10 in the world, and #7 in the U.S., in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking of full-time programs published today. Faculty research ranked #6 again worldwide.

In the specialty rankings, the Berkeley MBA ranked #2 for e-business, #3 for CSR/ethics, and #4 for entrepreneurship worldwide. Haas also ranked #10 for its MBA placement success and whether alumni would recommend their program.

Data for the ranking is gathered from an alumni survey of the full-time MBA Class of 2011 and from participating schools.

Alumni responses inform eight criteria that together contribute 59% of the ranking’s weight. The first two criteria reflect alumni incomes three years after graduation, which together account for 40% of the ranking. Eleven criteria are calculated from school data, accounting for 31% of the final ranking. These measure the diversity of the faculty, board members, and students by gender and nationality, and the international reach of the MBA.

The 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 2012 to October 2014, with the number weighted relative to the size of each faculty.

Information collated by the FT in the past three years is used for alumni-informed criteria. Responses from the 2015 survey carry 50% of total weight, and those from 2014 and 2013 25%.

In 2014, the Berkeley MBA ranked #11 worldwide and #8 among US schools. In 2011, the Berkeley MBA ranked #25 and has risen steadily since.

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 6^th.

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Berkeley-Haas ranked highly in recent new rankings from Poets & Quants, College Choice, and US News & World Report. These new rankings measured aspects ranging from MBA pay over a 20-year period to college reputation and research to MBA job opportunities.

The Berkeley MBA program ranked #4 in a ranking of the most lucrative full-time MBA programs by Poets & Quants. Poets & Quants conducted the ranking based on data collected from MBA alumni by Payscale. PayScale used its database of MBA graduates at the top 50 U.S. schools to calculate an estimate of median pay and bonus over the entire 20-year span. The Berkeley MBA pay over 20 years, according to Payscale, was $2,858,000. Read the full report here.

Berkeley-Haas also ranked #4 in a ranking by College Choice. The ranking is based on data related to the number of startups and job opportunities associated with each school, existing reputations, and the number of opportunities calculated against class size. The ranking was publicized by Businessweek on October 15. Read the full report here.

US News & World Report released its inaugural ranking of the best global universities on October 28. UC Berkeley ranked #3 in the world, based on 10 indicators that measure academic research performance and global and regional reputations. US News also provided subject ranking, in which Berkeley ranked #6 for economics and business based on research and reputation in those fields. Read the full report here.

The Economist Which MBAThe full-time Berkeley MBA program ranked #5 among US schools in the Economist Which MBA, published on Friday (10/10), and #7 globally.

The ranking focuses on four indicators: open new career opportunities (35%), professional development/education experience (35%), increase in salary (20%), and potential to network (10%).

The ranking is based 80% on school–provided data and 20% on a poll of students and recent alumni. The Economist also factors in the results of the prior two rankings, using a weighting of 20% of the 2012 score, 30% of the 2013 score and 50% of the 2014 score. In 2013, the Berkeley MBA ranked #3, in 2012, #6.

Stanford GSB ranked #9 in the 2014 ranking.

Read full report at http://www.economist.com/news/business/21623673-graduates-worlds-leading-business-schools-investment-banking-out-and-consulting

Princeton Review

The full-time Berkeley MBA program was named in the top ten of several categories of the Princeton Review, which went public on October 7. They are:

#5 for toughest to get into (based on GMAT and GPA scores and percent of applicants accepted into the program)

#8 for career prospects (based on average starting salary and percent of students employed within three months of graduation, as well as responses from a student survey)

#8 for best professors (based on student survey responses on teaching quality and faculty accessibility)

The rankings are based on surveys of more than 21,600 students at 296 business schools and data provided by participating business schools.

Full report at http://www.princetonreview.com/business-school.aspx.

The Haas undergrad program again ranked #2, tied with MIT, in US News & World Report published Sept. 9, 2014.

Haas also ranked highly in the specialty rankings:

#3 in real estate (same as 2013)
#4 in management (same as 2013)
#5 in finance* (same as 2013)
#5 in marketing (same as 2013)
#5 in quantitative analysis (not ranked in 2013)
#6 in international business (#7 in 2013)
#6 in production/operations management (same as 2013)
#7 in entrepreneurship* (#8 in 2013)

*Note: revised as per US News & World Report correction on 9/10/14 

The U.S. News undergraduate ranking is based entirely on a poll of business school deans and undergraduate program directors.

Full report at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges

In the college rankings UC Berkeley remained at #20 nationwide. See full report at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities.

The Haas Undergraduate Program ranks #1 in return on investment (ROI), according to an article published in Poets & Quants on Aug. 26. The ranking is based on research by Payscale for its 2014 College ROI Report.

The rankings feature four data points: Graduation percentage, 20-year net ROI, cost, and annual ROI percentage.

Berkeley-Haas took both the #1 and #2 spots in the ranking, based on a 20-year net ROI of $1,105,000 for in-state students and a $1,007,000 ROI for out-of-state students. Berkeley-Haas in-state students enjoyed a 15.8 percent annual ROI, whereas out-of-state students enjoyed a 10.6 percent ROI.

Using data collected directly from employee survey participants, PayScale ranked hundreds of business programs, based off total school cost and alumni earnings, Poets & Quants reported. The data came from 1.4 million surveys from college graduates who only hold a bachelor’s degree.

Read the Poets & Quants article.

The Berkeley MBA Program ranked among the top 10 US full-time MBA programs in two recent rankings, Hispanic Business and Business Insider.

Hispanic Business

The Berkeley MBA program ranked #6 in a ranking of the top full-time MBA programs for Hispanic students, published by Hispanic Business magazine on August 20, 2014.

In 2013, the Berkeley MBA ranked #2.

The schools are ranked using criteria such as enrollment, faculty, reputation based on a school’s US News & World Report ranking, retention rate, and the use of progressive programs to recruit, support, and mentor Hispanic students.

Read the Hispanic Business ranking.

Business Insider

The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program moved up four spots to #12 from #16 last year in a ranking of MBA programs by Business Insider, published on August 4, 2014. Among US schools only, the Berkeley MBA ranked #10.

The ranking is based on the ratings of nearly 10,000 Business Insider readers, according to Business Insider. Respondents were asked to rate the reputation of the graduates from top business schools around the world on a scale of poor to excellent (1 to 5), with excellent ratings used as a tiebreaker. Business Insider said it only included responses from those professionals who said they had experience hiring MBAs and filtered the data to obtain better geographical balance.

In a similar ranking, the Full-time MBA program ranked #3 worldwide in the Economist‘s Which MBA.

Read the Business Insider ranking

In a follow up ranking, published by Business Insider on August 19, the Berkeley MBA ranked #9 worldwide among the ten best business schools according to people working in tech. The ranking was based on the same poll of Business Insider readers used for the initial ranking.

Read the top schools in tech ranking

The top 10 list of business majors was provided by College Factual, a web site offering customized college selection tools and rankings. The ranking was based on equal parts early- and mid-career earnings of graduates (as provided by Payscale.com), the number of graduates, and the number of related majors at the college, as well as two parts of College Factual’s overall college quality rating published in 2013.