John Byrne created the first business school ranking at BusinessWeek magazine in 1988. Now, as founder and editor of the Poets & Quants website, Byrne creates an annual ranking based on what he considers the five “most influential” surveys in the world. Byrne explains:
Unlike other rankings, the Poets&Quants composite list combines the latest five most influential business school rankings in the world: U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times, and The Economist. Instead of merely averaging the five, each ranking is separately weighted to account for our view of their authority. (U.S. News is given a weight of 35%, Forbes, 25%, while both the FT and Businessweek is given a 15% weight, and The Economist, 10% weight.)
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