Top B-Schools of US

Top B-Schools August 3rd, 2008

Dartmouth (Amos Tuck School of Business Administration)

The Tuck School offers only a single degree: the two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration(MBA). Students may specialize within the MBA in fields such as finance or marketing, but a specialization is not required for graduation. First-year MBA students at Tuck undertake a 32-week core curriculum in general management and a specialized First Year Project. During their second year, students take 12 elective courses and design their own focused field of study.

The school stresses a collaborative and teamwork-based approach to learning, which it touts as one of its assets for “building the interpersonal skills required for business leadership.” However, this emphasis on cooperative group learning has been criticized as too “touchy-feely” for students entering the competitive business world, and the emphasis on consensus-building as detrimental to students’ ability to make quick, independent decisions. The school’s academic programs have also been criticized for not offering their students a broader international perspective, though the school has sought to remedy this by offering globally-oriented courses, programs, and research.

Students seeking other degrees can engage in one of seven dual-degree or joint-degree programs offered in conjunction with other academic institutions. Dual degrees include an MBA/Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, an MBA/Master of Public Affairs from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an MBA/Master of Studies in Environmental Law from the Vermont Law School, and an MBA/Master of Arts from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Joint degrees include a Doctor of Medicine/MBA from Dartmouth Medical School, a Master of Public Health/MBA from the Dartmouth’s Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, and a Master of Engineering Management/MBA from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering. The school also offers a variety of second-year exchange programs at other institutions such as the Handelshochschule Leipzig in Germany, the HEC School of Management in Paris, IESE Business School in Barcelona, and the London Business School.

In addition to the MBA program, the school also offers an array of executive education and other non-degree programs, such as the Tuck Business Bridge Program for current and recent university undergraduates, and the Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program for high school students.

For More visit their official site : www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/

Yale School of Management

The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers M.B.A. and Ph.D. degree programs. As of spring 2006, 468 students were enrolled in its Master of Business Administration program.

The School conducts education and research in leadership, economics, operations management, marketing, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and other areas; its most acclaimed programs are finance and strategic management. The School offers a wide range of graduate-level academic programs and concentrations. The School is known for its finance faculty, emphasis on ethics, and International Center for Finance. The School has also recently added an Executive MBA in Healthcare degree designed for professionals in the health care industry.

For More visit their official site : mba.yale.edu

Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School)

Nineteen majors are available to Wharton MBA students, who can also elect to pursue double majors or individualized majors. During their first year students pursue a required core curriculum. After completing the first year, electives are available. The MBA program offers nearly 200 electives within Wharton’s 11 academic departments, the largest selection of any business school. Thousands of other University electives are also offered through other Penn schools. MBA students may also spend term time at INSEAD’s Fontainebleau and Singapore campuses. Wharton also offers MBA Program for Executives which is a two-year, weekend residential program built on the same curriculum as regular MBA program. Executive program is offered in two locations: on the Wharton campus in Philadelphia and at Wharton West in San Francisco.

Wharton’s required pre-term includes coursework, waiver testing, and the “Learning Team Retreat”. Coursework includes introductory and review courses in financial accounting, microeconomics, statistics, and financial analysis. Preparatory courses cover material not included in Fall coursework that students are expected to understand. In addition, Pre-term includes classes on business history and languages, as well as short seminars in communication skills, computing technology, trading simulations, and career management.

Offered on a quarterly schedule throughout the first year, core courses cover traditional management disciplines finance, marketing, statistics, and strategy, as well as the leadership, ethics, and communication skills needed at senior levels of management.

For More visit their official site : www.wharton.upenn.edu