You got to look very closely their methods of calculating the ranking, and then use your own judgment to decide on which ranking you'd like to put more weight. Each of these rankings individually tells certain aspects of the story, but only after putting them together holistically, you can get a more complete picture. WSJ relied solely on corporate recruiter's feedbacks, which produced some very strange result: Stanford ranked No. 30 :-) Business week's ranking also sway significantly from year to year, because its method. US News' ranking, on the other hand, stays pretty stable over the years. In his book "How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs", Richard Montauk made some interesting discussions on the ranking in Chapter 4. I initially resisted the idea of reading this book, because I thought it's hyped too much on Amazon. But it turns out to be an very interesting read. Montauk is a Stanford law school graduate; his work is very thorough and logical, and also interesting at the same time. Recommended read if you have time. |