Category: Rankings

The Haas Undergraduate Program ranked #1 among business schools based on their 20-year return on investment in a recent ranking, while the Full-time Berkeley MBA Program placed #6 among US schools in a ranking by Spanish-speaking publication CNN Expansión.

Undergraduate Ranking

Haas was the only business school  to have a 20-year ROI of more than $1 million for California residents and more than $900,000 for out-of-state residents, according to a ranking compiled by the salary-tracking website PayScale. PayScale estimated the annual ROI of a Haas undergrad degree at 11.6 percent for California residents and 8.6 percent for out-of-state residents.

PayScale calculated the ROI by determining the total income a graduate will earn 20 years after graduation, minus both what they would have earned as a high school graduate and the cost of college, minus the average financial aid amount awarded to students at that school.

See the ranking at payscale.com/college-roi/full-list/by-major/Business.

Full-time MBA Ranking

In the CNN Expansión ranking, the Full-time Berkeley MBA Program again ranked #6 among U.S. schools and #8 worldwide.

The ranking is based on data supplied by participating business schools and an Expansión readership survey. It considers:

• Academic quality: GMAT scores, faculty research (as published in the Financial Times), and percentage of faculty with PhDs.
• Return on investment, based on post-graduation salaries.
• A program’s internationalization: percent of international students and number of countries represented.
• A program’s reputation among Expansion’s readership.

The U.S. ranking is in keeping with other sources that evaluate our Full-time MBA Program. For example, the full-time program was ranked #3 by The Economist, #7 by U.S. News, and #8 by the Financial Times.

See the CNN Expansión ranking at cnnexpansion.com/tablas/2014/03/05/los-mejores-mba-globales-2014.

Berkeley-Haas ranked #16 in the “Best for Vets” ranking published today (March 10) by Military Times, which collected responses from some 140 colleges and universities. Haas is the only top business school (as measured by other national rankings such as U.S. News and Businessweek) to make Military Times’ final “Best for Vets” list of 64 schools.

Military Times scored schools’ survey responses to both its business schools survey and to parts of its colleges survey based on what veterans have said is important to them as well as applying its own editorial judgment. Military Times also factored in Education Department statistics commonly used to track student success and academic quality.

Overall, schools were evaluated in five categories: university culture, student support, academic outcomes and quality, academic policies, and cost and financial aid. The value of each section was comparable, but university culture and student support counted the most, and financial aid counted the least.

View the Military Times report.

The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program placed #8 among U.S. schools and #11 worldwide, up from #12 globally in 2013, in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking published Monday (Jan. 27).

Haas faculty research ranked #6 worldwide. Placement for Haas PhD graduates ranked #12 worldwide. In specialty rankings, Haas placed #1 in corporate social responsibility/ethics, #3 in e-business, and #6 in entrepreneurship.

Data for the ranking is gathered from an alumni survey of the full-time MBA class of 2010 (which accounts for 55% of the ranking) and from participating schools (which accounts for 45%). The data is weighted as follows:

• 55% Alumni survey on career progress and satisfaction with the program. Current salary and salary percentage increase alone account for 40% of the ranking.
• 25% Diversity factors of the program, its faculty, and advisory board; international content of the program.
• 20% Intellectual capital, which includes 10% for faculty research measured by the number of faculty articles published in 40 peer-reviewed journals selected by the Financial Times (adjusted for faculty size), 5% for full-time faculty with PhD degrees, 5% PhD placement.

In a similar global MBA survey, Haas ranked #3 in the Economist Which MBA ranking in fall 2013.

Read the full Financial Times rankings report.

The Haas School’s Full-time Berkeley MBA Program placed #10 in the Poets & Quants meta ranking released Dec. 2. The ranking combines results of five recent popular rankings: Businessweek, U.S. News, Forbes, Financial Times, and Economist.

Poets & Quants gives a different weight to each of these five rankings. The Businessweek, Forbes, and U.S. News lists are given a weight of 25 percent each, while the FT is given a 15 percent weight and The Economist is given a 10 percent weight.

The Haas School measures its own standing among competing schools based on internal admissions data. Of the five popular rankings used by Poets & Quants, U.S. News, where Haas ranked #7, comes closest to this internal metric. The Haas School’s other two large degree programs—the Evening & Weekend MBA and the Undergraduate programs—ranked #1 and #2 in U.S. News, respectively.

Read the full Poets & Quants Meta Ranking Report

The Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA Program placed #2 in a Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of part-time MBA programs, up from #5 in the prior 2011 ranking. Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School ranked #1. The ranking was released Nov.  7.

The surveyed graduates from the class of 2013 gave Haas an A+ for teaching quality, an A+ for caliber of classmates, and an A+ for curriculum.

The ranking is based on a poll of the graduating class of 2013, which accounts for 40% of the results; an academic quality measure, which accounts for 30%; and post-graduation outcomes, which measure whether the schools were completely responsible for helping students achieve their career goals and account for 30% of the ranking.

Haas ranked #6 in the student poll, #3 in academic quality, and #11 in post-MBA outcomes.

See the complete Bloomberg Businessweek 2013 Part-Time MBA Ranking

Berkeley-Haas placed #9 among U.S. business schools in a meta ranking of full-timeMBA programs released Oct. 15 by MBA50, a website focused on MBA programs and business schools. Haas also ranked #9 in the 2012 ranking.

The ranking is based on the results of what MBA50 calls the “big five MBA rankings” over the past 12 months: Financial Times, Businessweek, Economist, U.S. News, and Forbes. MBA50 takes an average of these five results to create its ranking. In case of the Financial Times and the Economist rankings, MBA50 uses the results among U.S. business schools only (not worldwide) in order to calculate the average.

View the MBA50 Ranking

The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program climbed to #3 in the international Economist “Which MBA?” ranking released Oct. 10.

Berkeley-Haas moved up to #3 from #6 last year and also held third in 2009 and 2010. University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business was ranked first, followed by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business in second.

The Economist ranking combines data submitted by participating business schools and responses from students to rate schools on five measures: new career opportunities (35%); personal development/ education experience (35%); salary increase (20%); and potential to network (10%).

In other rankings:

Haas again ranked #1 for having the “best professors” in the Princeton Review‘s annual business school ranking released Oct. 8. Haas also ranked in the top 10 in four other specialty categories in the ranking:

#2 best career prospects
#4 best classroom experience
#4 toughest to get into
#7 greatest opportunity for women

The Princeton Review ranking is based on an 80-question survey of 20,300 students at 295 business schools.

In Forbes, the Full-time Berkeley MBA Program placed 14th in terms of ROI, compared to #13 in 2011, the last time Forbes calculated the measure. The Forbes ROI measure is based primarily on data from alumni of the class of 2008 and compares MBA earnings in their first five years out of business school to their opportunity cost (two years of forgone compensation, tuition and required fees) to arrive at a “5-year MBA gain.”

Berkeley-Haas placed sixth in the MBA50 Business Schools Social Media Ranking, a composite measure that tracks performance on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Haas placed #3 for YouTube subscribers, at 7,863, trailing only Stanford and Harvard. Since the ranking, Haas YouTube subscribers have crossed the 8,000 mark.

Haas placed #8 for Twitter followers, #9 for Facebook likes, and #11 for LinkedIn followers.

Read The Economist Ranking

Read the Princeton Review Ranking

Read the MBA50 B-School Social Media Ranking

U.S. News ranked the Haas Undergraduate Business Program #2, tied with MIT and Michigan in the College Rankings published today (Sept. 10, 2013). Haas ranked #3 in the prior three years.

The Haas Undergraduate Program also ranked in the top ten of the following specialty areas:

#3 Real Estate

#4 Management

#5 Finance

#5 Marketing

#6 Production/Operations Management

#7 International Business

#8 Entrepreneurship

U.S. News surveyed deans and senior faculty or program directors of undergraduate business program – two at each AACSB-accredited business program – and asked them to rate the quality of all programs they were familiar with on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). The undergraduate business school and business specialty rankings are based solely on the results of this peer survey.

In the college rankings, UC Berkeley moved up one spot to #20 nationwide, tied with Emory and Georgetown universities, and remained as the best public university in the US.

View the business program rankings (registration required) at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall/data.

UC Berkeley moved up to third place overall behind Harvard and Stanford in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) global rankings of universities. This represents an improvement over last year’s fourth-place ranking, now held by MIT.

Berkeley is ranked third in the world using the Shanghai Jiao Tong University methodology, which focuses on quality of faculty and research. Berkeley is again the top-ranked public university, followed by UCLA (12th), UCSD (14th) and UCSF (18th).

UC Berkeley’s Office of Planning and Analysis released this primer on the rankings’ methodology:

The table shows Harvard with a large advantage in total score, followed by a relatively close range of scores for Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and Cambridge.

The methodology uses four criteria to assess a university’s ranking: quality of education (worth 10% of the total), quality of faculty (40%), research output (40%), and per capita academic performance (10%). More specifically, these include Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners among faculty and alumni weighted by decade received, highly cited researchers from 21 subject areas, the number of papers in Nature and Science published between 2008 and 2012, the number of papers indexed in Science Citation and Social Science Citation in 2012. The weighted scores of these indicators are divided by the FTE of academic staff to obtain the per capita performance rating.

The total score is derived by summing these, and each institutional score is then standardized to the top-scoring university, which is assigned 100.

See the Shanghai Ranking

The Haas School placed third in a ranking of the best undergraduate business schools for accounting released by Bloomberg Businessweek on April 22.

The ranking of 124 undergraduate business programs in the U.S. is based on an online survey of undergraduate business students from the class of 2013.  BYU Brigham Young University ranked #1 followed by Notre Dame as #2.

Berkeley-Haas is the only school among the top 10 on the list that does not have a formal accounting program, major, or specific degree.

Read the Bloomberg Businessweek Ranking

The Haas School placed #11 in the Businessweek Undergraduate Business Program Ranking published March 20. Haas held the same spot in Businessweek’s ranking last year.

Haas earned an A for teaching quality, an A for facilities and services, and an A for job placement, based on student responses. Elements that make up the overall ranking, and their weighting, include :

#2 in academic quality (tied with Wharton and Villanova), compared to #3 last year (counts 30%)
#3 MBA feeder school, compared to #7 last year (counts 10%)
#7 average starting salary, at $60,000, tied with several schools (counts 10%)

The ranking is based on data provided by participating schools as well as on surveys of graduating seniors and of undergraduate recruiters. Notre Dame ranked #1 this year, the same as last year.

In comparison, the Haas Undergraduate Program ranked #3 in U.S. News & World Report.

See the Businessweek Ranking

UC Berkeley edged out Stanford to place fifth among the world’s top universities in the Times Higher Education magazine of Great Britain’s “World Reputation Rankings” released earlier this month.

In the reputation ranking, UC Berkeley earned a score of 72.4 on a 100-point scale, with Stanford trailing in sixth place with a score of 70.6. The Times article noted that to date, more than 20 Berkeley faculty members have become Nobel laureates.

In an analysis of the results, the Times noted that research has shown that a university’s reputation is the top priority (over location or even salary) for faculty changing jobs and is the number one consideration for internationally mobile students, above tuition fees and course content.

The Times rankings employs the world’s largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide a list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands. The 2013 rankings are based on 16,639 survey responses.

See the Times World Reputation Rankings

The Berkeley MBA Full-Time Program has landed in the top-10 list of several category rankings recently published by Businessweek.

Based on student responses collected for Businessweek’s fall 2012 MBA ranking, Haas earned high marks in the following specialty categories:

• #2 World’s Most Selective MBA Programs
• #2 Best 2012 MBA Job Placement (tied)
• #3 Sustainability
• #4 Entrepreneurship
• #5 E-Business
• #8 Information Technology

In another ranking compiled by Graduateprograms.com, Haas placed #2 among the top 15 business schools with the best overall value. The ranking is based solely on surveys completed by 4,500 graduate students from more than 700 U.S. business schools. In the website’s overall ranking of best U.S. business schools, Haas tied for #9 with the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

In a less academically oriented ranking published by the website, Haas tied for #9 among best business schools for social life.

The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program placed #12 in the world, up from #14 last year, in this year’s Financial Times global MBA ranking, released Monday, Jan. 28. Among U.S. schools, Haas held on to its #7 ranking from last year.

The Berkeley MBA Program also ranked #3 again worldwide in faculty research and #6 again worldwide in quality of PhD graduate placements.

Data for the ranking is gathered from an alumni survey of the full-time MBA class of 2009 (which accounts for 55% of the ranking) and from participating schools (which accounts for 45%). The data is weighted as follows:

• 55% Alumni survey on career progress and satisfaction with the program. Current salary and salary percentage increase alone account for 40% of the ranking.
• 25% Diversity factors of the program, its faculty, and advisory board; international content of the program.
• 20% Intellectual capital, which includes 10% for faculty research measured by the number of faculty research articles published in 40 peer-reviewed journals selected by the Financial Times (adjusted for faculty size), 5% for full-time faculty with PhD degrees, 5% PhD placement.

In similar global MBA survey, Haas ranked #6 in the Economist Which MBA ranking in fall 2012.

Read the full Financial Times rankings report

Berkeley-Haas placed fourth in a ranking of the top 100 most social media friendly MBA programs in 2013, compiled by Online MBA Page.com.

The list was created by gathering and compiling data from the social media accounts of more than 400 business schools and ranking them based on their presence and activity levels on Facebook (25 points), Twitter (25), YouTube (25), LinkedIn (10), Google Plus (5), Pinterest (5), and Flickr (5).

Berkeley-Haas earned an overall score of 37.8 on the 100-point scale. The top three schools were Stanford, Harvard, and Wharton.

Visit the Social Media Ranking