????美國最佳本科商業商學院花落誰家？

????如果你相信《美國新聞與世界報道》（U.S. News & World Report）的年度排名，榜首非沃頓商學院（Wharton）莫屬。如果你認為對于優秀商業課程的理解，《彭博商業周刊》（Bloomberg BusinessWeek）更勝一籌，那么你會意外地發現，沃頓商學院甚至沒有進入前五名。《商業周刊》更看好圣母大學（Notre Dame University）的門多薩商學院（Mendoza College of Business）。

????而我們則從一個新的角度研究最佳商業課程，將兩個最受關注的本科課程排名結果與一項最新的重要分析結果相結合，它就是《美國新聞與世界報道》的美國大學年度排名。畢竟，在任何商學院，商業專業學生在本科四年期間都會選修其他院系的課程。因此，學院的總體排名應該與商業課程的質量同樣重要。

????根據這種綜合方法，賓夕法尼亞大學（University of Pennsylvania）的沃頓商學院名列榜首，遙遙領先于并列第二名的兩所院校：康奈爾大學（Cornell University）戴森學院（Dyson School）與圣母大學。弗吉尼亞大學（University of Virginia）麥金泰爾商學院（McIntire School of Business）名列第四，華盛頓大學（Washington University）奧林商學院（Olin School）排在第五位。排在前列的許多課程早已名聲在外。排在前十名的其他商學院分別來自加州大學伯克利分校（UC-Berkeley）、密歇根大學（University of Michigan）、埃默里大學（Emory University）、北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）和卡內基梅隆大學（Carnegie Mellon University）。

????十大本科商業課程中，有四個來自公立大學。主要原因在于，頒發MBA學位的許多知名私立學校，如斯坦福大學（Stanford）商學研究院（Graduate School of Business）、哈佛商學院（Harvard Business School）、哥倫比亞大學（Columbia University）、西北大學（Northwestern University）、芝加哥大學（University of Chicago）、達特茅斯塔克商學院（Dartmouth Tuck）等，都沒有提供本科商業課程。

????沃頓的勝出并不令人意外。沃頓商學院有美國最受人尊敬、篩選最嚴格的本科商業課程。賓夕法尼亞大學的錄取率為12%，雖然這所學院沒有公布不同院系具體的錄取率，但有傳言稱，被沃頓商學院錄取比進入賓夕法尼亞大學更加困難。隨著一批名副其實的美國知名公司向這所商學院2014屆約650名學生發出工作邀請，又一批新鮮出爐的沃頓商學人即將加入全球報酬最豐厚的商學院本科生行列。

????在美國，隨著申請就讀商學院的人數越來越多，要進入頂級本科商學院也變得更加困難。排名靠前的許多家商學院近幾年一直在不斷提高SAT平均成績。僅過去三年間，沃頓商學院的SAT平均分就提高了22分，達到1466分（我們使用的是較早的計分方法，1600分為滿分，而不是目前使用的2400分）。這個分數線要遠遠高于SAT考生1050分的總體平均分。

????沃頓商學院本科商業課程副院長兼主任羅利?羅森科普夫說：“目前，需求增長越來越快。以沃頓商學院的趨勢為例，在過去十年里，單就申請人數來說，幾乎一直在增長，只有2008年的金融危機時期除外。在當前的入學申請周期中，申請人數增加了13%。我認為，這代表了一種更為普遍的理解，即商業貫穿多個領域。”

????What’s the best undergraduate business program in the U.S.?

????If you believe U.S. News & World Report‘s annual ranking, it’s Wharton, hands down. If you think Bloomberg BusinessWeek would have a better clue about what makes a great business program, you would probably be surprised that Wharton doesn’t even make its top five. BusinessWeek prefers Notre Dame University’s Mendoza College of Business.

????We’ve come up with a new way to look at the best programs, combining the results of the two most closely watched rankings of the undergraduate experience with a new and important wrinkle in the analysis: a university’s overall national rank in the annual U.S. News list. After all, a student who majors in business at any of these schools will be taking far more courses outside the business school during the four years he or she is enrolled in an undergraduate program. So the school’s overall reputation should be as important as the quality of the business program.

????Using this composite methodology, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School comes out on top, with a significant lead over the two schools that have tied for second place: Cornell University’s Dyson School and Notre Dame. The University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Business comes in fourth, while Washington University’s Olin School rounds out the top five. Many of the first-tier programs are well known. The business schools at UC-Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Emory University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Carnegie Mellon University complete the top 10.

????Four of the top 10 undergraduate programs in business are at public universities. That’s largely because many of the best-known private schools that grant MBA degrees, such as Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Dartmouth Tuck to name a few, do not have undergraduate business programs.

????Wharton’s clear win is not surprising. The school boasts one of the most respected, and selective, undergraduate business programs in the country. The University of Pennsylvania has a 12% acceptance rate, and it doesn’t break its statistics down by school—though the rumors are that Wharton is harder to get into than Penn. A veritable Who’s Who of America’s Corporate Elite have waved hefty job offers at the roughly 650 students in the class of 2014, making freshly minted Whartonites among the most richly paid business undergraduates in the world.

????With more applicants seeking a place in business programs throughout the U.S., it’s also getting significantly tougher to get into a top undergraduate program. Average SAT scores at many of the highly ranked schools have risen steadily in recent years. At the Wharton School, average SATs are up 22 points to 1466 in the past three years alone (we’re using the older scoring method in which a 1600 is a perfect score, not the current 2400). That’s considerably higher than the overall average of 1050 for SAT test takers.

????“Demand is really growing at a higher rate at this point,” says Lori Rosenkopf, vice dean and director of Wharton’s undergraduate business program. “Certainly, if we look at our own trends in terms of just pure applications over the last decade, we’ve seen an almost continuous rise, with the exception of the economic crisis of 2008. For the current application cycle right now, we’ve had a 13% increase in applications. I think it represents this understanding more generally that business translates through many spheres.”