Both Temple University Fox School of Business and Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business sat at No. On the other hand, just as some regions are trending upward, some schools fought the headwinds. 15 Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business fell seven spots after losing 21 students, down to 143. 11 Indiana University Kelley School of Business fell five spots after losing 11 students, down to an enrollment of 294. 9 Ohio State University Fisher College of Business lost nine students (down to 323) and one spot. 6 University of Michigan Ross School of Business lost 33 students (down to 430) and one spot.
News ranking and you’ll see the dropping enrollment problem affecting schools’ placement. Why the downturn in part-time MBA popularity? Business schools blame it on everything from an uncertain economy and crushing undergraduate debt to the proliferation of online MBA degree programs at ranked business schools. programs in the Northeast (53%) and West (50%) - but only 37% of programs in both the South and Midwest reported application volume growth, and nearly half (49%) of part-time MBA programs reported plans to reduce the size of the 2016–2017 class. Some regions experienced growing application volume, including a majority of U.S. schools, fewer than half (43%) of part-time MBA programs reported volume growth compared with 50% that reported declining volume. In GMAC’s 2016 Application Trends Survey, which is comprised of 85% U.S. Though part-time MBA programs continue to be the most popular choice for those seeking the degree, they have been falling in popularity for at least the last seven years, according to figures from the Graduate Management Admission Council. NYU Stern’s woes crystallize a problem many years in the making.
Stern is still the biggest part-time MBA program in terms of bodies, but now it only barely edges out Booth. 3, actually lost major ground, with enrollment decreasing by a whopping 159 students, 1,540 to 1,381. But NYU Stern, despite its newfound prominence at No. From 2015 to 2016, four of the top five schools saw gains: Berkeley Haas rose by a modest three students (799 to 802), Chicago Booth jumped from 1,329 to 1,366, UCLA Anderson climbed from 971 to 986, and Northwestern Kellogg grew by 16 (788 to 804). Falling enrollment has been a thorny problem for part-time MBA programs for the last several years, going back to the post-Great Recession recovery period of 2009-2010, and those looking for good news in the latest enrollment numbers at the top schools might be disappointed. Only Chicago Booth, at 4.7, received a higher score than Haas.Īccounting for considerably less of the total score (15%) but a major measurement of program health nonetheless: enrollment. That score, calculated from a fall 2016 survey that asked B-school deans and MBA program directors at 360 part-time MBA programs to rate the other part-time programs, accounts for 50% of the total measure of each school. News ranking, Berkeley Haas retained its high peer assessment score of 4.5 out of 5. 28 Kennesaw State University Coles School of Business (41.2%) to find a school that is more choosy.
At a 47.4% acceptance rate, Berkeley Haas is also the most selective school in the top 25 you have to go all the way down to No. It has the highest average GMAT score of any of the 301 schools in the ranking, 694, with the next closest schools 16 points back (Booth and UCLA tied at 678). 5.īerkeley Haas has been the top dog in the U.S. 4), while Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management fell from No. 2 but with New York University Stern School of Business vaulting from 10th into a third-place tie with UCLA Anderson School of Management (up from No. The rest of the top five of the 2017 ranking was slightly less foregone, with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business repeating as No. News & World Report on Tuesday (March 14). In a development that will surprise approximately no one, the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business’ part-time MBA program was again named best in the nation by U.S. The UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business part-time MBA program was named best in the nation once again by U.S.
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