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Olin Business School’s MBA program moved up four spots to #31 in the biennial Forbes ranking of Best Business Schools. The rankings will be published in the print edition of the magazine Sept. 11, 2015 and available online. Link here.

Forbes’ rankings are based on the return on investment over the five years post graduation. This year’s survey is based on data provided by the school’s full time MBA class of 2010

Kurt Badenhausen, senior editor at Forbes, explains the methodology, “We compared the alumni earnings in their first five years out of business school to their opportunity cost (two years of forgone compensation, tuition and required fees). We measure total compensation, including salary, bonuses and exercised stock options.

“We assume that compensation would have risen half as fast as their post-M.B.A. salary increases had these alumni not attended business school. The ‘5-year M.B.A. gain’ represents the net cumulative amount the typical alumni would have earned after five years by getting their M.B.A. versus staying in their pre-M.B.A. career.”

The schools are all ranked based on their 5-year M.B.A. gain. Schools were not included if alumni response rate fell below 15% or the ROI was negative after five years.

If you’re at WashU, you know you’re at one of the best universities in the world, but for the record, it’s been confirmed by yet another ranking. WashU is #32 on the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

According to the Washington Post, the list began in 2003 and uses six objective indicators to rank world universities,“including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index — Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university.”
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All of Washington University’s MBA programs are in the top tier of the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Grad Schools published March 10, 2015. The annual ranking puts Olin’s MBA program at #19; the PMBA program ranks #24; and the Executive MBA program ranks #23.

Only one out of the top 50 ranked schools could boast better placement numbers than Olin in 2014. We are proud to say that 96.9% of Olin MBA grads were employed 90 days post-graduation. Job placement success accounts for more than a third of the U.S. News ranking score.

The MBA rankings are based on placement and admissions data from 2014. Peer assessment provided by business school deans and directors accounts for 25% of the MBA ranking, 50% of the PMBA ranking, and 100% of the Executive MBA ranking.

To see the criteria and methodology for the U.S. News ranking, click here.

Olin ranks among the top ten schools for a degree in finance according to an article published by USA Today with data collected by College Factual. Olin ranks #8. According to the article, “Graduates of these programs are successful in the job market, making higher than average starting salaries. While an advanced degree, such as an M.B.A., will help increase job prospects, graduates of these top colleges typically find influential positions in some of the best businesses and financial organizations.”

Olin Business School’s full-time MBA program moved up five spots to #26 in the biennial Bloomberg Businessweek rankings published November 11, 2014.

High scores on two important measures propelled Olin’s advancement in the Bloomberg Businessweek survey. Olin earned top marks from company recruiters who rate their MBA hires and on the volume of faculty research published in esteemed journals.

Based on an analysis of employment metrics for the top 30 ranked schools in the survey, Olin remains in the top five for employment post 90 days of graduation and in the top 15 at graduation.

• 97% of Olin MBAs had job offers 90 days post-graduation, ranking Olin in fourth place in that category and tied with Columbia Business School
• Olin is in 11th place for job offers at graduation with 86% of MBA students receiving job offers

The Intellectual Capital ranking reflects the research produced at Olin, which demonstrates the strength of the faculty and the extent to which they are creating knowledge in business.

Bloomberg Businessweek changed its methodology this year and its employer survey from the last ranking cycle “to better reflect the breadth of the recruiting landscape and to collect more data on how well MBAs do in the workplace. Some 1,300 recruiters were surveyed, up from 206 in 2012, and they were asked to rate schools on how well their graduates performed in the areas most important to employers.”

See details of the methodology here.

Olin Business School’s joint Executive MBA (EMBA) program with Fudan University in Shanghai is #7 in the 2014 Financial Times (FT) survey and remains among the most highly ranked programs globally. Among EMBA programs based in Mainland China, the Olin-Fudan program ranks #2.

“As one of the first western schools to partner with a Chinese university and introduce executive education to the Asian market, Olin is extremely proud of more than 800 highly successful alumni from our program with Fudan University,” said Mahendra R. Gupta, dean of Olin Business School. “Our excellent faculty are dedicated to preparing global leaders who can manage the challenges of doing business in the 21st century.”

Prof. Jim Little chats with EMBA students in Shanghai.

Based on surveys of alumni who graduated in 2011, 2012, and 2013, and information provided by the business schools, The FT rankings are based on multiple criteria from students’ salary increases to the volume of research published by faculty.

Candidates accepted to the Olin-Fudan program are among the most highly experienced and accomplished executives. The majority are at a directorship level or higher when they enter the program. When compared to all the schools in the FT survey, Olin-Fudan incoming students rank at #11 on the global scale of work experience.

The Shanghai-based program is taught in English by tenured faculty of Washington and Fudan universities. Students attend intensive monthly sessions for 22 months with a rigorous and demanding curriculum. Graduates report salary increases of more than 50% according to the new FT survey. Olin-Fudan alumni are not only prepared to take their careers to the next level upon completion of the EMBA program but they continue to benefit from the global alumni networks of two highly respected universities.

In the category of research, the Olin-Fudan program ranked #11 globally, reflecting the important role that faculty research plays in Olin’s mission to create knowledge and use research as a teaching tool. This category is calculated according to the number of articles published by a school’s current full-time faculty members in 45 academic and practitioner journals between January 2011 and August 2014. The rank combines the absolute number of publications with the number weighted relative to the faculty’s size.

The Olin-Fudan premier EMBA program attracts a diverse cohort of students each year from multi-national companies based in China and throughout Asia. Nearly half (49%), of the international EMBA candidates in the Shanghai program are women, the highest percentage among the top-tier schools in the FT survey.

Washington University launched its Executive MBA program 30 years ago in St. Louis and it continues to grow in recognition and reach. The Shanghai-based program was established in 2002 and more recently, the program has expanded to Kansas City (2009), and Denver (2013). In 2015, Olin and the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay’s Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management will launch the first joint EMBA program of its kind in Mumbai, India.

The Financial Times’ 14th annual ranking of executive MBA degrees included 132 programs from 32 countries, including 17 offered jointly by more than one school.
To view the rankings and methodology, please click here.