Financial Times Ranks Duke's Fuqua School of Business No. 15 Among Top 50 Business Schools in North America and Europe

LONDON - Financial Times released its first ranking of the full-time MBA programs of the Top 50 business schools in North America and Europe today. Duke's Fuqua School of Business was ranked No. 15 overall. 

"We are pleased with the positive recognition provided to Fuqua by the Financial Times' business school rankings," said Dean Rex D. Adams. "We are proud of the quality and diversity of our MBA program. And, it is especially gratifying to see the quality of our faculty's academic research rated so highly and on such an objective basis."

Fuqua received high marks in each of the three areas that comprised Financial Times' rankings, highlighted by a No. 7 research ranking, which accounted for 16 percent of the total score. This part of the publication's ranking methodology was in large part based upon the results of a peer-review panel of international business school deans and academics from across eight subject areas who rated the level of academic research at each school. The research ranking also took into account the percentage of faculty with Ph.D.'s and a rating of recent Ph.D. graduates with a special weighting upon their placement as faculty in the Top 50 business school ranks.

On the relative scale used by Financial Times, Fuqua was rated 19th in the MBA course ranking (69 percent of the total grade) and 20th in the MBA diversity ranking (15 percent). These two sub-rankings were compiled from data collected from two questionnaires: one sent to business schools and one sent to alumni of each school's Class of 1995. The nine MBA course ranking indicators were: today's salaries for '95 grads, percentage increase in salaries, value for money, career progress, alumni aims achieved, job offers per student in '98, placement success, percentage employed within three months of graduation and an alumni recommendation category. The MBA diversity ranking was derived through five indicators: percentage of women and international faculty, percentage of women and international students and the number of languages required for admission in the program. 

Financial Times Top 50 Business Schools
(Full-time MBA programs in North America and Europe)

1. Harvard
2. Columbia
3. Stanford
4. Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5. MIT (Sloan)
6. Chicago
7. Northwestern (Kellogg)
8. London Business School
9. Dartmouth (Tuck)
10. UCLA (Anderson)
11. Insead (France)
12. Cornell (Johnson)
13. IMD (Switzerland)
14. UC Berkeley (Haas)
15. DUKE (Fuqua)
16. Michigan
17. NYU (Stern)
18. Emory (Goizueta)
19. Virginia (Darden)
20. Yale
21. Rochester (Simon)
22. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
23. Iese (Spain)
24. Instituto de Empresa (Spain)
25. Iowa
26. Western Ontario (Canada)
27. Carnegie Mellon
28. UC Irvine
29. Imperial College Management School (U.K.)
30. Southern Methodist (Cox)
31. RSM Erasmus (Netherlands)
32. Vanderbilt (Owen)
33. Manchester Business School (U.K.)
34. Georgetown
35. McGill (Canada)
36. Toronto (Rotman) 
37. Ashridge Management College (U.K.)
38. Georgia (Terry)
39. Case Western (Weatherhead)
40. Cranfield School of Management (U.K.)
41. Babson College
42. Warwick Business School (U.K.)
43. Pittsburgh (Katz)
44. City University Business School (U.K.)
45. HEC (France)
46. EAP (France)
47. Thunderbird
48. Lancaster University Management School (U.K.)
49. Nijenrode (Netherlands)
50. Penn State (Smeal)