by Francesca Levy and Jonathan Rodkin
from Bloomberg Businessweek
Every year, students around the country compete for a head start on conquering the corporate world by studying business in college. Since 2006, we have ranked undergraduate business programs to help guide prospective college students and their families in choosing the right degree program for the career they want. Today, after surveying nearly 30,000 students and recruiters at almost 600 companies, we present the best undergraduate B-schools of 2016.
As we did with our MBA rankings, we updated how we rank undergraduate programs to put a bigger focus on the outcome most students want from B-school: the brightest possible career path. We based our ranking on four main metrics:
Employer Survey (40 percent of total score): Feedback from recruiters who hire recent business graduates on how well schools prepared students for jobs at their companies.
Student Survey (35 percent): Students' own ratings of the campus, career services department, and faculty and administrators.
Starting Salary (15 percent): The base compensation of students who had jobs lined up, adjusted for salary variation across industries and regions.
Internship (10 percent): The percentage of a school’s graduates who had at least one internship at any time during college.
Bloomberg has ranked undergraduate business programs since 2006. Over time, we have shifted our methodology to focus on how well the programs prepare their graduates for job success. Our employer survey, which measures recruiter opinions on how well undergraduate programs equip their graduates with relevant skills, and our student survey, which records student feedback on how thoroughly they’ve been prepared for the workforce, have always been cornerstones of our rankings, along with data on how many graduates had at least one business-related internship during college and starting salary figures for graduates. This year, we’ve eliminated several parts of our old rankings model that do not speak directly to career preparation, including time spent on homework and average SAT score, and we’ve updated our surveys to focus more clearly on jobs.
本文节选自Bloomberg Businessweek。
