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Harvard MBAs employed at graduation, for example, fell to 77.3% from 79.1%, while grads employed three months after commencement declined to 88.5% from 89.3%. Most of the changes were small, if not inconsequential, but the best schools are closely bunched together in rankings so slight changes can result in outsized differences. The average class GMAT fell three points to 728 from 731. After two straight years of application declines, Harvard’s acceptance rate rose to 11.5%, up from 10.4% a year earlier. HBS fell in five of the eight data points, including employment rates at graduation and three months later.
Harvard’s decline, the largest of any top 25 MBA program, was the result of a drop in a majority of the key metrics U.S.
In that survey, 74% of the responding students said they consulted the ranking while applying to business school, while 46% said the publication’s rankings influenced their school choices. News is the most read and influential of all the MBA rankings by Harvard’s MBAs. Harvard Business School’s lackluster performance comes only a month after the school surveyed its own students and found that U.S. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL FELL IN FIVE OF EIGHT KEY DATA POINTS IN THE U.S. News list occurred in 1996 when it finished in fifth place and Stanford was first. Until this year, Harvard’s weakest showing on the U.S. But last year, Harvard slid into third place for a three-way tie with MIT Sloan and Chicago Booth, and now the school finds itself in even a worse position. Only two years ago, HBS topped the list, as it has on 17 different occasions since 1990, though it has sometimes shared the crown with either Stanford, Wharton or Chicago Booth. The new ranking put Harvard behind Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, both tied for third place, and MIT’s Sloan School of Management in fifth place. News‘ reckoning, Harvard is no longer the best business school in Beantown. Harvard’s arch-rival, Stanford Graduate School of Business, moved up a spot to share first place with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. News ranking ever, falling three places to rank sixth behind business schools that are rarely considered direct competitors with HBS for the best applicants. In the final year of Nitin Nohria’s deanship, the school collapsed to its lowest U.S. News & World MBA ranking published today (March 17). Harvard Business School finds itself in unfamiliar territory in the newest U.S.
Missing in action: Harvard Business School drops out of the top five in U.S.