Washington University executive MBA program second-best

September 30, 2010

Washington University executive MBA program second-best

ST. LOUIS BUSINESS JOURNAL

The executive MBA program at Washington University’s Olin School of Business is the second-best in the country, according to a new ranking in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal.

“Consideration for students’ needs on the career front also helped vault Washington University’s Olin School to No. 2 in this year's E.M.B.A. rankings,” the Journal reports. “In the past year the program has added a full-time career counselor and a career-coaching component to its curriculum.”

Olin School’s program costs $99,500. This was the Olin School’s first year in the Journal survey.

The nation’s best business school is the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which costs $167,250, according to the Journal.

To compile the rankings, the Journal said it worked with Management Research Group and Critical Insights, both of Portland, Maine, to survey thousands of students and hundreds of companies about the quality of E.M.B.A. programs and how well they deliver on improving management and leadership skills. Overall rank is based on a weighted combination of alumni score, corporate score and management-skills score.