Carlson biz school places 21st in US News rankings

Up a few notches

We’re bombarded by rankings — and reports saying how faulty they are — so I’m just putting this out:

U.S. News & World Report released its annual business school rankings today, and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management placed 21st.

That’s up from 24th last year, Carlson spokesman Steve Rudolph said.

Programs that placed:

Information systems. This placed fourth nationally, the same place it had last year, Rudolph said.

Production/operations. This was ranked 19th, Rudolph said. (Trying to get last year’s ranking.)
Part-time MBA program. It’s 15th this year, just down from 14th last year, Rudolph said.

(Those last two are available by subscription only.)

Read the announcement here and Carlson’s profile here.

You can find the announcement of other rankings — such as law, engineering and medical programs — here.

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Anonymous

This is interesting, especially given the comments by Carlson School Dean Blake-Davis, who is on her way out and will start soon as a business school dean at Michigan.

“Dean Davis-Blake said there have been many attempts … What is more difficult is the will to take action: Central costs must go down or in four years her college will be spending more on central costs than it does on its faculty. Making that change will require hard choices and it will require that the University model revenue and live within its budget.”

“Davis-Blake said that quality is going down because the quality of the student experience has declined, which is related to uncontrollable central costs. At the Carlson School, they have fewer TAs, fewer classes, more students in classes, the building is less clean, there are fewer advisers, they have more adjuncts, and they have less information technology. All of these things are happening.”

link: http://bit.ly/bweBTq

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