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What s the Best Business School? For This Year s M.B.A. Rankings, It s Not Who You Think. – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

Several top U.S. business schools are skipping popular M.B.A. rankings this year, upending an annual rite for programs and prospective students.

Harvard Business School, the University of Pennsylvania s Wharton School, Columbia Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, among others, opted to skip the most recent rankings by the Economist and the Financial Times. Several schools said Covid-19 made it difficult to gather the data they must submit to be ranked.

More than bragging rights hang in the balance though there are plenty of those, too. Schools say a good showing in rankings can draw interest from prospective students, stoking application volumes, as well as plaudits or pans from alumni who continue to track their alma mater long after leaving campus.

via www.wsj.com