WSJ Survey Gives Ross Top Rank

The Wall Street Journal has just released its annual business school rankings for 2006. As in past years, the rankings are based on corporate recruiters' assessment of U.S. and international b-schools as sources of management talent.

The WSJ ranks the top 5 national b-schools as:

1. U. of Michigan - Ross
2. Dartmouth - Tuck
3. Carnegie Mellon - Tepper
4. Columbia Business School
5. UC Berkeley - Haas

The top 5 international b-schools named are:

1. ESADE
2. IMD
3. IPADE
4. London Business School
5. Thunderbird - Gavin

Columbia and MIT - Sloan are also named among the top 10 international b-schools.

Recruiters also named top schools for particular recruiting goals:

Harvard - top school for general business and strategy
Kellogg - top school for marketing
Wharton - top school for finance
Chicago - top school for accounting
Stanford - top school for entrepreneurship
MIT / Sloan - top school for information management

Ross, Howard, Harvard, Columbia, and Haas were named the best schools for companies seeking to recruit minority MBAs. Columbia, Kellogg, Haas, Harvard, and Ross were named the top schools for recruiting women MBAs.