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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The various national and international rankings are very confusing.  It seems that for the Untied States, the US News rankings are most widely quoted (accepted) - but there are others including Forbes and United States National Research Council Rankings.  There are also specific program rankings - Businessweek and Bloomberg for business schools and some international rankings.  Once you move beyond the very top HPY - the rankings are all over the place.  Who do you reconcile these?

Another thing that puzzles me is how the separate USNews rankings of small liberal schools relate to National University rankings - how does Swarthmore #3 compare to Duke #8? [/quote]

Why worry about rankings at all? Find a school that is a good fit for the student.[/quote]

Because for better or worse, your child's future employers are probably looking at the rankings.[/quote]

Not true.  Seriously, do you think they sit there and scroll through the US News Lists?  [/quote]

Of course not, don't be silly. But they are well aware of the difference between Dartmouth and *insert name of 2nd or 3rd tier school here*. Some, but not all, of the associates/low-level staffers the firm dispatches to recruit at schools may also have recently checked where their own Ivy stands in the rankings these days. Yes, I went to a top business school and attended recruitment events hosted by Salomon (back in the day) and others, and I do have an idea how these things work.

(And this forum used to be more respectful than other forums. The barbarians are at the gate now. Sigh.)[/quote]

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