Published mid October every 2 years since 1988, Business Week evaluates the world’s top Business Schools to create two separate rankings; the top 30 U.S. programs and the top 10 Non-U.S. MBA programs. The rankings are derived from three separate surveys including a MBA graduate survey, a corporate recruiter survey and a third survey measuring an intellectual capital rating.

The MBA graduate survey makes up 45% of the overall ranking and consists of 45 questions asking students to rate their program on teaching quality, career services, alumni network, and recruiting efforts, among other things. Taken into account are the graduate surveys from 2006 (22.5% of the overall ranking) as well as 2004 and 2002 each of which make up 11.25% of the overall ranking.

The corporate recruiter survey makes up 45% of the overall ranking and asks recruiters to rank the top 20 schools that they recruit from on the quality of graduates and their past recruiting experiences. Taken into account are the surveys from 2006 (22.5% of the overall ranking) as well as surveys from 2004 and 2002 each of which make up 11.25% of the overall ranking.

The intellectual capital rating makes up 10% of the overall survey and searches the top twenty academic journals of the past 5 years and also looks through the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week for articles and books written by professors allotting points for each.

Source: Business Week