This week, Business Week released their annual Best Undergraduate Business Schools list, which was compiled by asking business majors to rank their schools in 12 different areas. The results were compiled to find out which schools are best in certain programs, and to some, the results have been surprising.
Top 10, Overall:

Virginia (McIntire)

Notre Dame (Mendoza)

Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Michigan (Ross)

Brigham Young (Marriott)
UC-Berkeley (Haas)
MIT (Sloan)
Cornell
Emory (Goizueta)
Texas (McCombs)

Individual Categories, Top Schools:

Accounting  – Boston College (Carroll)
Business Law – Nebraska
Calculus – MIT (Sloan)
Corporate Strategy – Richmond (Robins)
Ethics – Loyola
Financial Management – Richmond (Robins)
Marketing – Richmond (Robins
Microeconomics – Cornell
Operations Management – George Washington
Quantitative Methods – Richmond (Robins)
Sustainability – …read more

The US has had a bit of a lock on the international business school market for many years now, with the exception of a few schools like INSEAD, near Paris, and the London School of Economics in – where is that again – oh, right, London. Part of that was no doubt due to the relative flexibility of the US educational system, with our willingness to experiment with compressed semesters, evening and weekend schedules, and intensive courses.
Now, according to this article from the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, European business schools are becoming more serious competitors. Ironically, given the weakness …read more