The Top 5 Philly Marketing MBAs
Marketing is a competitive career field, and not all MBA programs are designed to train you to be a marketer. The key is finding a program that not only builds your skills in strategy, business, consumer behavior, decision-making theory and more but also has the right contacts within the marketing industry to help you get a job at a top company after graduation.
If you live in or are heading to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, choosing the right MBA program for a career in marketing could be a difficult choice. There are a dozen programs to choose from, and each offers a unique perspective and special features that make them attractive. So, how do you decide which school to attend for an MBA in marketing?
Introducing The UW Foster Full-Time MBA Class of 2018
Are you thinking about heading to the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington for your MBA? It’s a good choice. Not only is Foster’s full-time MBA program ranked first overall in the Northwest by the U.S. News and World Report, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Economist and the Financial Times, it’s also ranked in the top 30 nationwide by all the same reports. But, it’s not just rankings that indicate an excellent full-time MBA program; it’s also the student experience. Continue reading…
Foster Ranks 1st in MBA Job Placement
How do you choose an MBA program? You might look at faculty, research, course work and alumni just to name a few. But what about job placement? Why attend an MBA program and spend all that time and money if you can’t improve your job situation afterward? Well, there’s great news for MBAs at University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. BusinessWeek recently named Foster as the number one school in job placement for the ‘Top 20 Full-Time MBAs in the U.S.’ Continue reading…
Jones Full-Time MBA Named Top Ten Program in the U.S.
The full-time MBA program at the Rice University – Jones Graduate School of Business was recently named the 8th best program in the country for 2016 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a position which will have implications far and wide for the school and those involved with it.
London Business School Leads 2016 Bloomberg BusinessWeek International MBA Rankings
London Business School (LBS) climbed to the very top spot on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s ‘Best International Business Schools of 2016‘ list, released yesterday, up a notch from last year’s second-place showing. INSEAD, which has campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, followed right behind, inching up from number three last year to second place this year. The United Kingdom’s other powerhouse business schools, Oxford’s Saïd Business School and Cambridge’s Judge Business School, fell in line at third and fourth respectively, representing a three-spot jump for Saïd over last year and a four-spot jump for Judge. Spain’s IESE also experienced gains year over year, sidling up two spots from last year’s seventh place to round out this year’s top five.
But as some schools inched up, others fell—most notably Western University’s Ivey Business School in Canada, which plummeted from the number one spot last year to 10th in 2016. Spain’s IE Business School and Switzerland’s International Institute for Management Development (IMD) each slipped two spots, to sixth and seventh this year. But Italy’s SDA Bocconi School of Management sauntered up four spots from 12th last year to land comfortably within the top 10 this year, at number eight. And Melbourne Business School has perhaps the most cause for celebration. The Australian school shot up a whopping 14 places to come in at number nine.
Like Bloomberg BW’s U.S. MBA rankings, released last month, its international MBA rankings are compiled using a methodology that assesses schools based on five factors: a survey of MBA recruiters, weighted at 35 percent; an alumni survey, weighted at 30 percent; a survey of the 2016 graduating class, weighted at 15 percent; the school’s placement rate, weighted at 10 percent, and the starting compensation for the class of 2016, weighted at 10 percent.
What this means, as the magazine points out, is that “it’s possible to rank highly without knocking every category out of the park.” Case in point, INSEAD came in second overall even though it ranked a meager 25th (out of 31) for job placement. (Bloomberg BW measures job placement as the percentage of graduates who land full-time employment within three months of graduation out of those seeking it—the figure reported by INSEAD was 81.6 percent, compared to an average 85.9 percent among all schools).
In terms of pay growth enjoyed by graduates of the 31 schools included in Bloomberg BW’s list, students came in at an average salary of $50,000, jumped to an average starting salary of $90,000 for their first job out of school and reported an average salary of $141,750 six to eight years out from graduation. The average MBA debt taken on by graduates across all ranked schools, meanwhile, was $40,000.
At a glance, here are the top 10 best international MBA programs in 2016 as ranked by Bloomberg BW:
- London Business School
- INSEAD
- Oxford (Saïd)
- Cambridge (Judge)
- IESE
- IE
- IMD
- SDA Bocconi
- Melbourne
- Western (Ivey)
As always, those of us here at MetroMBA encourage applicants to use rankings as just one of many means of evaluating which MBA program is the best fit to their individual needs and goals.
This article was republished with permission from Clear Admit.
Businessweek Ranks Smith Among Nation’s Best Full-Time MBA Programs
Bloomberg Businessweek released its annual ranking of the best U.S. full-time MBA programs last week. While there were some surprising changes in the 2016 rankings, the Robert H. Smith School of Business was given the same ranking by the publication for 2015, coming in at 33rd overall in the U.S. Continue reading…
