Business Week Names Wharton Top B-School.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1998--The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School has grabbed the No. 1 spot in Business Week's ranking of the best business schools a spot it has held since 1994. Wharton ranked first among corporate recruiters surveyed by the magazine, and second to UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX in satisfaction among 1998 B-school graduates. The runner-up run·ner-up n. pl. run·ners-up One that takes second place, as in a game, sport, or other competition. runner-up Noun pl runners-up , Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg School of Management
Rounding out the top ranks is this year's No. 3, the University of Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. , which made a U-turn after its dramatic slip to No. 8 in 1996. Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). drops from No. 2 to No. 4, while Harvard finishes fifth, down one spot in the magazine's rankings. To determine its rankings, Business Week sent extensive questionnaires to 9,568 graduating MBAs at 61 schools -- the magazine's largest survey ever -- as well as 350 companies that actively recruit MBAs. Complete rankings will be published in the October 19, 1998 issue of Business Week, on newsstands tomorrow. |
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