Social Science Research Network (sub. req'd?) releases a beta version of a Business School Ranking which considers the number of authors, papers, and downloads that are associated with a particular school. The approach is somewhat unique. Rather than measuring the quality of a program based on the ex post interest of a paper as reflected in where it is published, these rankings focus on ex ante interest.

The ranking might be biased (which ranking is not?) but it does place UT Arlington at 138 (which sounds reasonable), right around Wichita State and Kansas State. That sounds about right. Other schools of business are perhaps overrated or underrated.

Here are the top 15:
1 Harvard Business School
2 University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business
3 University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
4 Yale School of Management
5 New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
7 Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan
8 Columbia University - Columbia Business School
9 Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
10 William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
11 Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
12 University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business
13 Stanford Graduate School of Business
14 University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
15 Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Here are those around UT-Arlington:

132 Utah State University - College of Business
133 University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Bryan School of Business & Economics
134 University of Washington, Bothell
135 Ohio University - College of Business
136 Wichita State University - W. Frank Barton School of Business
137 Central Michigan University - College of Business Administration
138 University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business Administration
139 Seattle University - Albers College of Business & Economics
140 Kansas State University - College of Business Administration
141 Washington State University - College of Business and Economics
142 Loyola University of Chicago - School of Business Administration
143 Western Kentucky University - Gordon Ford College of Business
144 University of New Orleans - College of Business Administration
145 North Dakota State University - College of Business Administration
146 University of Alabama at Birmingham - School of Business

What might prove interesting is the correlation between the pre-publication rankings and the post-publication rankings. It seems to me that I saw a business school ranking paper authored at UT-Dallas. I will have to search around for it, and if I find it, I might report back.

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