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For b-schools, endowment starts with employment; Good jobs make happy grads, wealthy donors.(Focus: Alumni)(Column)
Crain's Chicago Business, October, 2004 by Powers, Kemp
Byline: KEMP POWERS Once considered weak sisters to coastal millionaire factories like Harvard and Stanford, Midwest business schools now rank among the nation's best, based in part on their ability to place graduates in good-paying jobs. That's not the only measure of a good business school, but to prospective students, it's the most important.
"Job placement is the No. 1 criteria in selecting an MBA program,'' says Heather Briggs, a second-year student at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Earlier this month, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago GSB ranked first and second in Business Week's list of the nation's best business schools. In September the Wall Street Journal and Harris...
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