Top B-Schools of US

Top B-Schools August 3rd, 2008

Following are U.S’s top B-Schools:

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School offers a two-year full time MBA program, which consists of one year of mandatory courses (Required Curriculum) and one year of unrestricted course selection (Elective Curriculum). Admission to the MBA program is one of the most selective graduate programs in the world^. The student body is highly international and diverse, with only 63% of students who are citizens of the United States. Women comprise 35% of the class of 2008.

The Required Curriculum consists of two semesters. The first semester focuses primarily on the internal aspects of the company and includes the courses Technology and Operations Management, Marketing, Financial Reporting and Control, Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, and Finance I. The second semester focuses on the external aspects and includes the courses Business, Government, and the International Economy, Strategy, The Entrepreneurial Manager, Negotiations, Finance II, and Leadership and Corporate Accountability.

The Elective Curriculum can be chosen from among 96 courses. The diverse selection includes courses such as: Agribusiness, Doing Business in China, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, Managing in the Information Age, The Moral Leader, Entrepreneurship in Education Reform, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Business at the Base of the Pyramid, Consumer Marketing, Retailing, Power and Influence, Managing Medicine, Supply Chain Management, and Corporate Strategy.The students assign each course a priority and the courses are filled through a lottery system based on student priority and class availability. Elective curriculum students can also complete a field study or independent student research project in lieu of a class. Field studies allow students to work together in a team closely with faculty members to launch a product, develop a new business, or research a real world issue. Independent student research projects provide an opportunity for a student to work with a faculty member to develop deep insights on a particular topic of interest. These options allow students to create a second year curriculum that is aligned with their personal and professional interests.

For More visit their official site : http://www.hbs.edu

Columbia Business School

The Columbia MBA Program is designed to prepare its students for the challenges they will face as emerging leaders in a rapidly changing business world. The admission process is highly competitive with an admission rate of 16% in 2007. The student body is highly accomplished and diverse. Students in the class that entered in 2007 come from more than 50 countries and speak more than 40 languages. Thirty-three percent of the class are women and 23% are members of a minority group. The most represented undergraduate universities in the MBA student body are the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, Duke University, Princeton University, Georgetown University, Dartmouth College, University of Virginia, Brown University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley.

The revised core curriculum, launching in the fall of 2008, represents about 40% of the degree requirement. It consists of 2 full courses and 12 half-term courses including Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Managerial Statistics, Managerial Economics, Leadership, Operations Management, and Marketing Strategy. While the first year of the program is usually devoted to completing the requirements of the core curriculum, the second year provides students with the opportunity to choose from the more than 130 elective courses available at the School and supplement them with more than 4,000 graduate-level classes from the University’s other graduate and professional schools. Among the most popular electives at Columbia Business School are the Economics of Strategic Behavior, Financial Statement Analysis and Earnings Quality, Launching New Ventures, Modern Political Economy, and the Seminar in Value Investing.

Graduating students are rewarded with generous salaries. In 2007, the median starting base salary was $100,000 with a median $30,000 signing bonus and a median $30,000 of other guaranteed compensation.

For More visit their official site : http://www.gsb.columbia.edu

Chicago Graduate School of Business

Chicago GSB offers Full-time, Part-time (Evening and Weekend) and Executive MBA programs. The University is also a major center for educating future academics, with graduate programs offering the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in several fields.

The program allows students to largely structure their own course of study subject to the constraint of a broad set of requirements. This is in contrast to other top-tier business schools, which impose a cohort or learning team system that includes coursework to be completed in a pre-determined order. The program differentiates itself by allowing students the flexibility to construct a program of study that is tailored to their needs, and can be as broad or deep as they choose. There is only one required course for full-time program students: LEAD (Leadership Effectiveness and Development), which students take in their first quarter. LEAD focuses on the fundamental skills of leadership: motivating people, building relationships, and influencing outcomes. Students in the full time program may earn an International MBA, or IMBA, by studying abroad on exchange with another business school, taking certain electives, and by demonstrating oral proficiency in a second, non-native language.

Students in these programs can elect to concentrate in one or more areas of study, although some concentrations’ required coursework requires schedule modifications by students enrolled in the part-time programs:

Students actively engage in group projects and outside class discussion.

Accounting
Analytic Finance
Econometrics and Statistics
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Finance
General Management
Human Resource Management
International Business
Management and Organizational Behavior
Marketing Management
Operations Management
Strategic Management

The school’s Executive MBA program is unique in that students may elect to spend the required residential periods on all three of the school’s campuses world-wide (London, Chicago, Singapore), while also employing the cohort system.

For More visit their official site : www.chicagogsb.edu