Understand MBA rankings includes rankings for Canadian MBA Schools

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BusinessWeek

Business Week's ranking concentrates mainly on U.S. schools; it ranks only 10 top schools outside the United States in a separate category. Nor are the international schools covered in the same depth as the U.S. ones. It surveys recruiters and students and applies the same weighting to each sector (45 per cent), with the remaining 10 per cent based on information supplied by the schools. Rankings are based on two surveys, two years apart, to lessen the swings common in some other rankings.

Canadian rankings (Non-U.S. list)

Queen's University: 1

Ivey (UWO): 2

Rotman (UofT): 3

Schulich (York): 9

HEC Montreal: 10

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The Economist

Although published by the same company, the difference between the Economist magazine's rankings and those of the Financial Times are marked. While FT's list is seen as the benchmark by which other rankings are judged, many Canadian schools have problems with the Economist's methodology. Schools provide a list of names of MBA alumni, who are then contacted for their opinions. There are also problems with the numbers surveyed; for example, a small school with less than 50 MBA students could be ranked on information from as few as 10 alumni.

Canadian rankings

Schulich (York): 30

HEC Montreal: 98

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WALL STREET JOURNAL

For its international survey, the WSJ surveys alumni and recruiters (mainly, but not exclusively, American). Although the methodology is impeccable, the small sample size and cause big changes in rankings from year to year. Schools complain that they do not understand how the WSJ's rankings can change so dramatically; they feel a rise to drop in ranking doesn't mean as much as with some other evaluations.

Canadian rankings

Queen's: 8

Ivey (UWO): 9

Schulich (York): 13

Rotman (UofT): 22

The Financial Times

The Financial Times ranking is considered the most comprehensive, listing the Top 100 schools in the world. The London newspaper works with the schools to ensure as much relevant information as possible is included, and surveys alumni for details on salaries, job mobility and career progression. While even FT doesn't cover all the bases (it does not survey schools in India, for example), it is seen by many as the most authoritative independent source for MBA information.

 Canadian rankings

Joseph L. Rotman School of Management: 27

(University of Toronto)

Richard Ivy School of Business: 41

(University of Western Ontario)

Schulich School of Business: 49

(York University)

Sauder School of Business: 77

(University of British Columbia)

Desautels Faculty of Management: 90

(McGill University)

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