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Rankings
Between 1988 and 2004, the school's position in BusinessWeeks biennial business school ranking has averaged around #5 and #6. BusinessWeek also ranks major academic divisions/disciplines; all of the school's divisions ranked in the top five in all nine surveys of the past twenty years. The magazine has consistently rated the major disciplines of the University of Michigan Business School in the top five since it launched its biannual ranking of professional schools in 1988. Only three other business schools can make this claim.

When BusinessWeek Online announced its ""Top Ten Management Gurus,"" based on surveying executives worldwide, Michigan professors Dave Ulrich (rated number one), Noel Tichy, C. K. Prahalad and Michigan alumnus Gary Hamel, PhD 1990, dominated the list.

BusinessWeek'''s ""The Best B-Schools"" report of October 2004 ranked the business school sixth overall among the best business schools, and fourth in leadership for its training efforts. In the same report, under the ""Best and Brightest"" category for schools that produce graduates with the best skills, the business school ranked:
3 in Marketing 
5 in General Management 
7 in Ethics 
8 in Global Scope 

In other BusinessWeek rankings, the MBA program was ranked:
2004 - 6
2002 - 8
2000 - 6
1998 - 4
1996 - 2
1994 - 6
1992 - 5
1990 - 7
1988 - 6

In its Executive Education Rankings, BusinessWeek ranked the business school:
2003 - 3 
2001 - 3 
1999 - 2 
1997 - 2 
1991 - 1 

In the Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Survey Rankings (2005):
2 National School Overall Ranking
2 National School Marketing
4 National School Operations Management
4 National School for Recruiting Woman
1 National School for Recruiting Minorities
10 National School for Ethics

The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Guide to Business Schools: Recruiters' Top Picks 2005, released in September 2004, ranked the business school:
1 national ranking - Top North American Schools 
2 in academic excellence for Marketing 
4 in academic excellence for Operations Management 
7 Top International Schools 
9 in academic excellence for Accounting 
1 for hiring minorities 
5 for hiring women U.S. News and World Report (April 2004) ranked Michigan's Executive MBA program as the #1 public EMBA program. In its ""America's Best Colleges 2005"" report, Michigan ranked:
2 in Management undergraduate programs 
2 in Marketing undergraduate programs 
3 in Finance undergraduate programs U.S. News and World Reports Departmental Excellence Ratings (2002) placed Michigan in the top five for strength ""across the board."" U.S. News & World Report's Best Undergraduate Business Program rankings (2006) placed Michigan third, tied with University of California-Berkley. This is the highest rating for any public university.The Financial Times' Special Report on Executive Education (2005, released May 2004) ranked Michigan:
3 in Program Design 
4 for Quality of Program Faculty 
Among the top 10 for Skills and Learning, Food and Accommodations, and Relevance of Teaching Materials 

The Academy of Management Journal, in its most recent ranking (2000), ranked the faculty in the top two for research performance among business schools. The National Black MBA Association named the University of Michigan Business School the ""Outstanding Educational Institution of the Year"" in 2001. Hispanic Business'' magazine rated the University of Michigan Business School as one of the 10 best graduate schools in the nation for Hispanics.

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