MBA Program Reputation and Quantitative Rankings : New Information for Students, Employers, and Program Administrators

Since 1988, Business Week on a regular basis ranks MBA programs based on qualitative (quot;subjectivequot;) surveys of students and employers. We rank MBA programs using the quantitative (quot;objectivequot;) data collected with the 2004 Business Week survey. We employ equal-weighted and principal components indexes to rank MBA programs. Our indexes fall into three categories - output, input, and output-input indexes - that rank MBA programs proximately from the interests of students, employers, and MBA program administrators, respectively