Harvard may boast one of the most famous business schools in the world, but not to recruiters.
The headhunters scored Ivy League university poorly on the Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs .
Recruiters scored 30 leading business schools on a scale from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest). They compared the schools on their ability to produce diverse and high-quality candidates, the creativity of their graduates, and how well their students are trained compared to peers from other schools.
They also assessed the value of each school's brand, its reputation for entrepreneurship, and how driven and entrepreneurial its students are.
We took the average score for each school across all six metrics to create an overall ranking of the top 30 business schools. Here they are:
Linda A Cicero/Stanford University/Facebook
Average score: 4.27
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Courtesy of McDonough School of Business
Average score: 4.16
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Via Flickr
Average score: 4.10
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Carnegie Mellon University/Facebook
Average score: 4.09
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Facebook/insead
Average score: 4.08
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Via Flickr
Average score: 4.08
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Facebook/University of Washington
Average score: 4.07
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
IESE - MBA/Facebook
Average score: 4.02
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Wikipedia
Average score: 4.00
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Shu-Wei Hsu/Flickr
Average score: 3.99
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Wikipedia
Average score: 3.93
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Via Flickr
Average score: 3.92
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Luiz Gadelha Jr., Flickr
Average score: 3.92
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
LENS-68/Shutterstock
Average score: 3.92
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Glassdoor
Average score: 3.92
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
YouTube/IMD business school
Average score: 3.91
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Brigham Young University/Facebook
Average score: 3.88
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Average score: 3.86
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Facebook/University of Virginia
Average score: 3.86
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Flickr/alberth2
Average score: 3.85
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Jannis Tobias Werner/Shutterstock
Average score: 3.85
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Flickr / Matt Phillips
Average score: 3.85
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Via Wikimedia Commons
Average score: 3.83
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Wikipedia
Average score: 3.83
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Average score: 3.83
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
C0mun1c4t10ns, Wikipedia
Average score: 3.77
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Shutterstock
Average score: 3.71
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Mav/Wikimedia Commons
Average score: 3.68
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Flickr/AndrewH324
Average score: 3.67
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
Tuck School of Business/Facebook
Average score: 3.63
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools
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