NCSU RANKED #6 AS TOP B-SCHOOL

As part of the 2013 Best Undergraduate B-Schools ranking, Bloomberg Businessweek asked undergraduate business students from this year’s graduating class to tell us, via an online survey, about their business school experience, from getting in to getting a job. One section of the survey singles out specific aspects of the business program and asks students to grade them on a scale from A to F. Over the next few weeks, we will publish the top 10 B-schools in each specialty area, from accounting to entrepreneurship, culminating with publication of the entire undergraduate specialty ranking, which will include 124 schools. Following Wharton and Olin in the operations management ranks are Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and the b-school at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Below is the list of the top 10 schools.

Methodology: The ranking is based on student responses to a question asking them to rank their program’s operations management offerings. Points are awarded for each response—ranging from one point for an A grade through five points for a grade of F—and they are then averaged for each school. If students did not have exposure to the area in question, they could answer NA and their response was not included. The ranking is based on the average; schools with the lowest average are ranked the highest. The average operations management score for all 124 undergraduate business schools in the ranking was 1.52.