Business Program Rankings

What Price Rankings?
Andrew Policano, dean of the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, ( BizEd, September/October 2005)  examines the unintended consequences of business program rankings and makes several predictions about future changes.

Business School Rankings and Business School Deans: A Study of Nonprofit Governance
C. Edward Fee, Charles Hadlock, and Joshua Pierce examine the relationship between business school dean turnover and MBA program rankings, (Financial Management, Spring 2005).

What’s Really Wrong With U.S. Business Schools
This article by Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo, and Jerold Zimmerman concludes that U.S. business schools are “locked in a dysfunctional competition for media rankings that diverts resources from long-term knowledge creation.”

We Can’t Have It Both Ways
Patrick Harker, dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote this piece for AACSB’s electronic newsletter in May 2004. It is reprinted on the Wharton School Web site.

The Business of Ranking Business Schools
This special issue of the Graduate Management Admission Council’s Selections magazine looks takes a look behind the numbers, interviews the people behind the rankings, and provides several perspectives on the impact of the rankings.

A Responsible Approach to League Tables
This 2001 document outlines the view of members of EQUAL, the European Quality Link for Business Schools and Management Education.

The Business School Rankings Game
The Business School Rankings Game, by Devinney, Dowling, and Perm-Ajchariyawong, analyzes Financial Times ranking procedures and provides recommendations for business schools. 

Institution Rankings

Is There Life After Rankings
This insightful piece, by the former dean of the University of Pennsylvania law school, describes his experience after 10 years as president of Reed College, of not completing the U.S. News & World Report ranking system.