(03-17-2017 07:59 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(03-17-2017 07:49 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(03-17-2017 05:15 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  This ignores class sizes. Large schools that skew towards grad degrees (i.e. MBA programs) have a huge edge when looking at raw numbers.

The more students a school has, the more grads in any capacity it can expect to have moving forward. That's especially true for masters level business courses that are 1-2 years vs ~4 years for bachelor programs. Also, masters-level business degrees are required to move up in some industries, like finance, which creates a second bias.

The B1G consists of huge schools w/ more of an emphasis on masters programs than the schools in most other conferences.

Calling it the biggest is probably a more accurate title.

You are right. There is nothing in either the excerpt quoted here or in the original article linked that makes any kind of value judgment about quality of these programs. All it does is count how many CFO's went to schools that happen to be linked together in an athletic conference. It doesn't even normalize for differences in the number of schools per conference.

The article is useless as a tool for anything except stirring the passions of sports fans and providing them with fodder for bragging about their favorite conference.

Its an interesting article on the people at the top from various schools. Clearly, the B1G produces a lot of CFOs for big companies.

Almost all the schools have very good MBA programs. And for whatever reason, there are a lot of strong accounting programs in the Midwest. Even some of the MAC schools have highly ranked accounting programs, Miami, Northern Illinois, Central Michigan.

"Even some of the MAC schools have highly ranked...." WHY? its surprising to you that a "non-P5" university rates well at a certain academic metric? Sports and academics are two seperate things. This topic is funny to me as I've been saying for years that college football fans were going to one day think the money they get from espn to show football games is going to buy them into Ivy League status. Maybe a degree from Alabama will be better than one from Yale someday since Alabama is a "P5" in sports and Yale is only a mid major. Bawhahaha

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