Rankings for international business programs??

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I'm trying to find the best (or at least ranked) mba programs for international business. I can't seem to find this anywhere. I've heard of places where you can sort the schools based on your own criteria, but I can't find that online either. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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by raabenb » Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:23 am
US News and World Report

Business Specialty Rankings: International
Ranked in 2008

1 Thunderbird School of Global Management Glendale, AZ
2 University of South Carolina (Moore) Columbia, SC
3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
4 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
5 Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC
6 Columbia University New York, NY
7 Harvard University Boston, MA
New York University (Stern) New York, NY
9 University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA
10 University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
11 University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX
12 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
13 Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley) Bloomington, IN
14 Stanford University Stanford, CA
University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA
16 Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC
Michigan State University (Broad) East Lansing, MI
18 Temple University (Fox) Philadelphia, PA
19 Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
20 Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC

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by witwiyl » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:01 am
Oh wow, thanks!

You know what, right after I posted my message, I found that you could sort by speciality on the US news and world rankings site. haha.
But when I did it for international business, I got a different list.....hmmm, where do you get yours from?

I got this: https://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandr ... _inter_bus

Stanford
Wharton
Northwestern
MIT
etc.......

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by aim-wsc » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:10 am
moving the thread to business schools in general forum.

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by raabenb » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:47 am
I have a subscription so I can log in. Once you log in, it has different lists for specialties, one of them being International.

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by VP_Tatiana » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:16 pm
I'm interested in doing business in Latin America, and I felt that the best way to get that focus was to do my electives in Latin America. I just returned from Monterrey, Mexico last week where I spent a trimester at EGADE, Latin America's best business school.

I highly recommend considering either a study abroad or a dual MBA program (I know USD and Thunderbird offer joint programs with EGADE, for instance) if you would like to do business abroad. In my opinion, the experiences of working in international teams, taking classes with professors that have a different teaching style than I am used to, and working with companies and non-profits in a foreign country were all experiences that taught me lessons I could have never gotten out of a class in the US. It was simply experiential learning. I feel like it was better to experience the kind of frustrations I did (and learn from these!) in school than in an actual work experience.

I think my classmates would agree. ; )

Best wishes,

Tatiana
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