For the last six years, but especially since 2019, business schools from the upper tier of the rankings to the unranked have galloped to establish STEM tracks, concentrations, pathways, and more in their MBA and other graduate degree programs. The University of Wisconsin Business School was the first school to “go STEM” — to designate part of its MBA a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math degree, with implications not only for visa eligibility but for long-term employability, too — and dozens of B-schools have followed (for a complete list, see the next pages). In a recent business school admissions officers survey, global educational services company Kaplan and its sister company Manhattan Prep found an increasing percentage of full-time MBA programs across the U.S. securing STEM designation — but they also found that universal adoption appears to be a long way off.
Leaving aside Galloway’s arguable declaration about affirmative action’s popularity, the man whom Poets&Quants once named one of the world’s 50 best B-school professors definitely hit on a popular idea for a new way to ensure the diversity of college classes. According to a recent Intelligent.com poll, 1 in 3 Americans supports income-based admissions to higher education institutions, as more than half — 57% — agree that poor students have a more challenging time achieving high test scores.
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What’s most surprising about the new US News ranking might be the lack of surprises – in other words, how similar the ranking is to last year’s. The top ten schools are the same, except Dartmouth has slipped into a tie for tenth, and the schools are in nearly the same order.
That’s in contrast to other rankings like those from Financial Times and the Economist, which saw major upheavals as top B-schools opted out of being ranked due to the pandemic.
When it came to the US News ranking, however, few schools opted out. And for those schools that didn’t submit data, including Wharton and MIT Sloan, US news simply reused data from last year’s ranking and ranked the schools anyway.