2014美国10大本科商业课程排行榜

    美国最佳本科商业商学院花落谁家？

    如果你相信《美国新闻与世界报道》（U.S. News & World Report）的年度排名，榜首非沃顿商学院（Wharton）莫属。如果你认为对于优秀商业课程的理解，《彭博商业周刊》（Bloomberg BusinessWeek）更胜一筹，那么你会意外地发现，沃顿商学院甚至没有进入前五名。《商业周刊》更看好圣母大学（Notre Dame University）的门多萨商学院（Mendoza College of Business）。

    而我们则从一个新的角度研究最佳商业课程，将两个最受关注的本科课程排名结果与一项最新的重要分析结果相结合，它就是《美国新闻与世界报道》的美国大学年度排名。毕竟，在任何商学院，商业专业学生在本科四年期间都会选修其他院系的课程。因此，学院的总体排名应该与商业课程的质量同样重要。

    根据这种综合方法，宾夕法尼亚大学（University of Pennsylvania）的沃顿商学院名列榜首，遥遥领先于并列第二名的两所院校：康奈尔大学（Cornell University）戴森学院（Dyson School）与圣母大学。弗吉尼亚大学（University of Virginia）麦金泰尔商学院（McIntire School of Business）名列第四，华盛顿大学（Washington University）奥林商学院（Olin School）排在第五位。排在前列的许多课程早已名声在外。排在前十名的其他商学院分别来自加州大学伯克利分校（UC-Berkeley）、密歇根大学（University of Michigan）、埃默里大学（Emory University）、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）和卡内基梅隆大学（Carnegie Mellon University）。

    十大本科商业课程中，有四个来自公立大学。主要原因在于，颁发MBA学位的许多知名私立学校，如斯坦福大学（Stanford）商学研究院（Graduate School of Business）、哈佛商学院（Harvard Business School）、哥伦比亚大学（Columbia University）、西北大学（Northwestern University）、芝加哥大学（University of Chicago）、达特茅斯塔克商学院（Dartmouth Tuck）等，都没有提供本科商业课程。

    沃顿的胜出并不令人意外。沃顿商学院有美国最受人尊敬、筛选最严格的本科商业课程。宾夕法尼亚大学的录取率为12%，虽然这所学院没有公布不同院系具体的录取率，但有传言称，被沃顿商学院录取比进入宾夕法尼亚大学更加困难。随着一批名副其实的美国知名公司向这所商学院2014届约650名学生发出工作邀请，又一批新鲜出炉的沃顿商学人即将加入全球报酬最丰厚的商学院本科生行列。

    在美国，随着申请就读商学院的人数越来越多，要进入顶级本科商学院也变得更加困难。排名靠前的许多家商学院近几年一直在不断提高SAT平均成绩。仅过去三年间，沃顿商学院的SAT平均分就提高了22分，达到1466分（我们使用的是较早的计分方法，1600分为满分，而不是目前使用的2400分）。这个分数线要远远高于SAT考生1050分的总体平均分。

    沃顿商学院本科商业课程副院长兼主任罗利•罗森科普夫说：“目前，需求增长越来越快。以沃顿商学院的趋势为例，在过去十年里，单就申请人数来说，几乎一直在增长，只有2008年的金融危机时期除外。在当前的入学申请周期中，申请人数增加了13%。我认为，这代表了一种更为普遍的理解，即商业贯穿多个领域。”

    What’s the best undergraduate business program in the U.S.?

    If you believe U.S. News & World Report‘s annual ranking, it’s Wharton, hands down. If you think Bloomberg BusinessWeek would have a better clue about what makes a great business program, you would probably be surprised that Wharton doesn’t even make its top five. BusinessWeek prefers Notre Dame University’s Mendoza College of Business.

    We’ve come up with a new way to look at the best programs, combining the results of the two most closely watched rankings of the undergraduate experience with a new and important wrinkle in the analysis: a university’s overall national rank in the annual U.S. News list. After all, a student who majors in business at any of these schools will be taking far more courses outside the business school during the four years he or she is enrolled in an undergraduate program. So the school’s overall reputation should be as important as the quality of the business program.

    Using this composite methodology, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School comes out on top, with a significant lead over the two schools that have tied for second place: Cornell University’s Dyson School and Notre Dame. The University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Business comes in fourth, while Washington University’s Olin School rounds out the top five. Many of the first-tier programs are well known. The business schools at UC-Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Emory University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Carnegie Mellon University complete the top 10.

    Four of the top 10 undergraduate programs in business are at public universities. That’s largely because many of the best-known private schools that grant MBA degrees, such as Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Dartmouth Tuck to name a few, do not have undergraduate business programs.

    Wharton’s clear win is not surprising. The school boasts one of the most respected, and selective, undergraduate business programs in the country. The University of Pennsylvania has a 12% acceptance rate, and it doesn’t break its statistics down by school—though the rumors are that Wharton is harder to get into than Penn. A veritable Who’s Who of America’s Corporate Elite have waved hefty job offers at the roughly 650 students in the class of 2014, making freshly minted Whartonites among the most richly paid business undergraduates in the world.

    With more applicants seeking a place in business programs throughout the U.S., it’s also getting significantly tougher to get into a top undergraduate program. Average SAT scores at many of the highly ranked schools have risen steadily in recent years. At the Wharton School, average SATs are up 22 points to 1466 in the past three years alone (we’re using the older scoring method in which a 1600 is a perfect score, not the current 2400). That’s considerably higher than the overall average of 1050 for SAT test takers.

    “Demand is really growing at a higher rate at this point,” says Lori Rosenkopf, vice dean and director of Wharton’s undergraduate business program. “Certainly, if we look at our own trends in terms of just pure applications over the last decade, we’ve seen an almost continuous rise, with the exception of the economic crisis of 2008. For the current application cycle right now, we’ve had a 13% increase in applications. I think it represents this understanding more generally that business translates through many spheres.”