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Reputation and Efficiency: A Nonparametric Assessment of America's Top-Rated MBA Programs

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Subhash C. Ray (University of Connecticut)
Yongil Jeon (Central Michigan Universit)

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Widely publicized reports of fresh MBAs getting multiple job offers with six-figure annual salaries leave a long-lasting general impression about the high quality of selected business schools. While such spectacular achievement in job placement rightly deserves recognition, one should not lose sight of the resources expended in order to accomplish this result. In this study, we employ a measure of Pareto-Koopmans global efficiency to evaluate the efficiency levels of the MBA programs in Business Week's top-rated list. We compute input- and output-oriented radial and non-radial efficiency measures for comparison. Among three tier groups, the schools from a higher tier group on average are more efficient than those from lower tiers, although variations in efficiency levels do occur within the same tier, which exist over different measures of efficiency.

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Paper provided by University of Connecticut, Department of Economics in its series Working papers with number 2003-13.

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Date of creation: Mar 2003
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Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Pareto-Koopmans global efficiency; Reputation;

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