Ranked Among the World's Best Graduate Business Schools
By BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, U.S.News & World Report and others...
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal has included Wake Forest in its ranking of the world's best MBA schools. Of the 264 MBA schools eligible for the ranking, Wake Forest placed No. 2 among the nation's regional schools, moving up five places to the highest ranking the school has achieved in the poll since the survey began. This ranking is based on the responses of 4,430 corporate recruiters who hire MBA graduates. The results of the seventh-annual survey of corporate recruiters was conducted jointly by The Wall Street Journal and Harris Interactive. (9/17/07)
BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek ranks Wake Forest's full-time MBA program among the top 38 business schools in the nation. This comprehensive, biennial ranking incorporates input from recent graduates, opinions of corporate recruiters and a measurement of faculty quality. The magazine surveyed 16,565 MBA graduates from the Class of ’06 and 426 companies that recruit MBAs. BusinessWeek also tallied faculty members’ academic journal entries in 20 top-level publications, which accounts for 10 percent of a school’s rank. The top 30 schools are listed in ranked order, followed by the next eight schools, which are listed alphabetically, including Wake Forest. (10/12/06)
U.S.News & World Report
Wake Forest’s full-time MBA program is ranked No. 55 by U.S.News & World Report. The magazine surveyed 425 MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). This ranking is based on a survey of business school deans and MBA program directors, a survey of corporate recruiters and company contacts who hire MBAs, job placement success and student selectivity. (3/2808)
The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Wake Forest has been ranked No. 30 in the world by Beyond Grey Pinstripes for preparing its MBA graduates for social and environmental stewardship. The biennial Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey and ranking is produced jointly by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute to honor MBA programs that are leading the way in integrating social and environmental stewardship issues into business school curricula and research. Beyond Grey Pinstripes honored the school by saying, "Compared to other business schools in our survey, Wake Forest University offers a truly extraordinary number of courses featuring relevant content, and does an excellent job in those courses explicitly addressing how mainstream business improves the world.” (10/10/07)
Entrepreneur magazine/Princeton Review
Entrepreneur magazine’s fifth-annual ranking of entrepreneurship programs places Wake Forest University and the Babcock School among the nation’s top graduate business schools including Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All of these schools including Babcock were recognized by Entrepreneur and its research partner The Princeton Review as stellar standouts on its honorable mention list. Babcock was singled out for “the well-known Elevator Competition (that) requires students to pitch venture capitalists in two minutes.” More than 900 undergraduate and graduate schools were surveyed about their offerings in entrepreneurship. The questions used in the ranking covered three basic areas: academics and requirements, students and faculty, and outside the classroom. This most recent survey did not include a ranking of program directors, but Stan Mandel, director of our Angell Center for Entrepreneurship, has previously been recognized by Entrepreneur as No. 3 among the nation’s entrepreneurship program directors, as ranked by his peers. (10/23/07)
Entrepoint.com/TechKnowledge Point Corp.
TechKnowledge Point Corp., which previously had helped compile Entrepreneur magazine’s ranking, produced a ranking published by Entrepoint.com in February 2006. It placed Wake Forest and the Babcock School among 13 top-tier national colleges and universities. The top-tier designation was the highest ranking awarded in the survey of nearly 800 colleges and universities. (2/14/06)
Forbes
Forbes ranked Wake Forest No. 31 among the nation’s top full-time MBA programs in its biennial survey. Forbes calculated that on average it takes Wake Forest’s full-time graduates 3.6 years to break even on their MBA investment.
The rankings are based on the return on investment over five years earned by MBA graduates of the Class of 2002. Forbes compared the post-MBA compensation with the opportunity cost (tuition and forgone salary while in school) and what students would have made had they stayed in their previous jobs. Forbes adjusted salary figures to account for cost-of-living expenses and discounted the earnings gains, using a rate tied to money market yields. (9/3/07)
Forbes magazine ranked Wake Forest’s evening MBA programs No. 12 in the nation for return on investment. Included in the magazine’s only survey of part-time programs were the evening MBA programs offered in Charlotte and Winston-Salem. (9/05/05)
Fortune Small Business
Wake Forest and the Babcock School placed among the magazine’s list of America’s best colleges for entrepreneurs for 2007. Although not a ranking, 26 schools are included and listed alphabetically. Reasons cited by the publication for including Babcock among the nation’s best graduate business schools:
- 90 percent of the school’s students take at least one elective class in entrepreneurship
- More than one-third of the school’s full-time students are members of the Babcock Entrepreneurs Club
- The school offers such services as a business incubator and a Family Business Center.
The list was based on interviews with hundreds of entrepreneurs, professors, students, alumni, university administrators and venture capitalists. Those interviewed were asked which programs they considered to be the most innovative and effective, and why. (9/07)
América Economia
Wake Forest's full-time MBA program is ranked No. 20 among U.S. graduate business schools and No. 32 in the world by América Economia, a Latin American business magazine. This survey is intended as a resource for Latin American students interested in pursuing an MBA outside of Latin America. The following variables were considered equally in determining the ranking: excellence in selecting the best candidates, schools’ relationship to Latin America, curricular innovation, cost/benefit relation and prestige. (8/31/07)
The Economist
Wake Forest placed No. 40 among U.S.-based schools in The Economist's sixth annual ranking of international full-time MBA programs. The survey attempts to measure a school's success at providing students with new career opportunities, personal development and academic preparation, increased salary, and potential for networking among alumni. Babcock's full-time MBA class of 2007 was surveyed for this ranking. (9/28/07)
