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How we pick the 50 Best: To choose the 50 Best Business Schools for Getting Hired, Fortune and its partner QS analyze information from QS's TopMBA Scorecard, which includes data on 111 top accredited U.S. business schools. TopMBA Scorecard is an online tool designed to help students search MBA programs to find the best one for them. For this list, schools are ranked based equally on their reputation with recruiters and on their strength of career placement, based on a search by a student looking to study in a full-time MBA program in the United States. To determine schools' recruiter ratings, QS surveyed 445 HR managers responsible for MBA hiring at their company. Recruiters are asked to name the international business schools from which they would prefer to hire MBAs, and which they consider to be the most reputable. The schools' scores are then converted into an index number of 0 to 100, where 100 is the top-scoring MBA program. Please note: Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was incorrectly listed in the 2006 QS recruiter survey and thus does not appear in this year's rankings. The school will be included in next year's survey. We regret the error. To determine schools' career placement strength, QS surveyed top MBA schools in summer 2006 and asked them for the latest complete available data on what percent of their students are employed within 3 months of graduation (accounting for 20% of their career-placement score), the average number of employment offers per student (another 20% of the career-placement score) and students' average salary on graduation (60% of the career-placement score). MBA graduation schedules differ, but for U.S. schools the latest available data typically would be for a class graduating in June 2005. QS is one of the foremost providers of independent information on higher education around the world and also runs the QS World MBA Tour. For more information, go to www.topmba.com or e-mail topmba@qsnetwork.com.
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