Schools’ responses to students’ demands from MBA courses Level and percentage increase in student salary after completing MBA Academic research conducted in school Opinions of corporate recruiters Size of school Student opinions Ranking Business Schools What are the main sources of data used to rank schools?

Ranking Business Schools Student salary changes after MBA course Rankings should assess if students are better managers after taking MBA. Which measure comes closest to addressing this issue? What assumptions are made by the student salary measure? Salary is related to job performance

Students do not have comparative information– they usually only attend one school Student opinions are like using participant reactions to training Remember Intuition-based HR slide! Ranking Business Schools What is the problem with using student opinions to judge quality?

Schools choose which recruiters to consult Recruiters are usually Alumni Alumni tend to like Alma maters Number of corporate recruiters correlated with number of students graduating from school Ranking Business Schools What is the problem with using corporate recruiters?