U.S.News: 2012 商学院排名方法是什么？

U.S.News: 2012 商学院排名方法是什么？

　　By Robert Morse , Sam Flanigan
　　All 437 master's programs in business accredited by AACSB International were surveyed in fall 2010 and early 2011 (398 responded, of which 142 provided the data needed to calculate full-time M.B.A. rankings based on a weighted average of the indicators described below). All 437 schools appear in the online directory.
　　Quality Assessment (weighted by .40)
　　Peer Assessment Score (.25) In the fall of 2010, business school deans and directors of accredited master's programs in business were asked to rate programs on a scale from "marginal" (1) to "outstanding" (5). Those individuals who did not know enough about a school to evaluate it fairly were asked to mark "don't know." A school's score is the average of all the respondents who rated it. Responses of "don't know" counted neither for nor against a school. About 44 percent of those surveyed responded.
　　Recruiter Assessment Score (.15) In the fall of 2010, corporate recruiters and company contacts from M.B.A. programs previously ranked by U.S. News were asked to rate all full-time programs on a scale from "marginal" (1) to "outstanding" (5). Those individuals who did not know enough about a school to evaluate it fairly were asked to mark "don't know." A school's score is the average of all the respondents who rated it. Responses of "don't know" counted neither for nor against a school. About 21 percent of those surveyed responded. For the purpose of calculating this year's rankings, the two most recent years' recruiters' survey results were averaged and are weighed by .15.
　　Placement Success (weighted by .35)
　　Mean Starting Salary and Bonus (.14) The average starting salary and bonus of 2010 graduates of a full-time master's program in business. Salary figures are based on the number of graduates who reported data. The mean signing bonus is weighted by the proportion of those graduates who reported a bonus, because not everyone who reported a base salary figure reported a signing bonus.
　　Employment Rates for Full-time Master's Program in Business Graduates The employment rate for 2010 graduates of a full-time master's program in business. Those not seeking jobs or for whom no job-seeking information is available are excluded. If the proportions of graduates for whom no job-seeking information is available and who are not seeking jobs are high, then the information is not used in calculating the rankings. Employment rates at graduation (.07) and three months after graduation (.14) are used in the ranking model.
　　Student Selectivity (weighted by .25)
　　Mean GMAT Scores (.1625) The average Graduate Management Admission Test score of students entering the full-time program in fall 2010. Scores on the test range from 200 to 800.
　　Mean Undergraduate GPA (.075) The average undergraduate grade-point average of those students entering the full-time program in fall 2010.
　　Acceptance Rate (.0125) The percent of applicants to the full-time program in fall 2010 who were accepted.
　　Overall Rank: Data were standardized about their means, and standardized scores were weighted, totaled, and rescaled so that the top school received 100; others received their percentage of the top score. In order to be ranked, a full-time M.B.A. program had to have 20 or more graduates who were seeking employment in 2010. For a school to have its employment data considered in the ranking model, at least 50 percent of its 2010 full-time M.B.A. graduates needed to be seeking work. M.B.A. programs that did not meet the employment criteria are listed as Unranked (see below for explanation of Unranked).
　　Specialty Rankings: These rankings, including executive M.B.A., are based solely on ratings by business school deans and directors of accredited master's programs from the list of schools surveyed. They were asked to nominate up to 10 programs for excellence in each of the areas listed. Those schools receiving the most votes in each specialty are listed and are numerically ranked in descending order based on the number of nominations they received as long as the school/program receives seven or more nominations in that specialty area. This means that schools ranked at the bottom of each specialty ranking have received seven nominations.
　　Rank Not Published means that U.S. News did calculate a numerical ranking for that school/program, but decided for editorial reasons that since the school/program ranked below the U.S. News cutoff that U.S. News would not publish the ranking for that school/program on usnews.com. U.S. News will supply schools/programs marked with Rank Not Published with their numerical rankings, if they submit a request following the procedures listed in the Information for School Officials in the About the Rankings section on usnews.com.
　　Schools/programs marked as Rank Not Published are listed alphabetically. In graduate business we have numerically ranked the top three-fourths of the graduate business schools that qualified to be ranked. The bottom one-quarter of the rank-eligible business schools are listed as Rank Not Published and are listed alphabetically.
　　Unranked means that U.S. News did not calculate a numerical ranking for that school or program. The school or program did not supply U.S. News with enough key statistical data to be numerically ranked by U.S. News. Schools or programs marked as Unranked are listed alphabetically and are listed below those marked as Rank Not Published. Graduate business schools that did not meet these following criteria were listed as Unranked: In order to be ranked, a full-time M.B.A. program had to have 20 or more graduates who were seeking employment in 2010. For a school to have its employment data considered in the ranking model, at least 50 percent of its 2010 full-time M.B.A. graduates needed to be seeking work.
　　Part-Time M.B.A. Program Rankings
　　Part-time M.B.A. programs play a vital role in business education, especially for working people who can't go full time because of family or financial reasons. Many of the top-ranked part-time M.B.A. programs are at schools that also have top-ranked full-time programs. U.S. News's part-time M.B.A. ranking is based solely on a fall 2010 peer assessment survey that asked business school deans and M.B.A. program directors at each of the nation's 295 part-time M.B.A. programs to rate the other part-time programs on a 5-point scale, from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Forty-one percent of those surveyed responded.
　　Programs were ranked based solely on their average peer assessment score. U.S. News defines a part-time M.B.A. program as being at an AACSB-accredited school with at least 20 students enrolled part time in both fall 2009 and fall 2010 based on the enrollment reported to U.S. News. A part-time M.B.A. program had to meet the two-year enrollment and accreditation standard to be included in the ranking. In the part-time M.B.A. program rankings, programs with an average peer assessment score of equal to or greater than 2.0 are numerically ranked. All those with average peer assessment scores of less than 2.0 are listed in alphabetical order as Rank Not Published by U.S. News.
　　Sources: U.S. News and the schools. Assessment data collected by Synovate. The M.B.A. part-time program data listed for fall 2010 admissions and enrollment are for information purposes only and are not used in the computation of the M.B.A. part-time rankings. N/A = Data were not provided by school.

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