????除了幾個(gè)值得注意的特例，本已高企的新生本科階段平均成績(jī)依然相當(dāng)穩(wěn)定。在斯坦福大學(xué)，新生平均績(jī)點(diǎn)從去年的3.69攀升至令人驚愕的3.73，為美國(guó)所有商學(xué)院的最高值。芝加哥大學(xué)布斯商學(xué)院的新生平均績(jī)點(diǎn)從一年前的3.52微漲至3.57。隸屬于達(dá)特茅斯學(xué)院(Dartmouth College)的塔克商學(xué)院(Tuck School of Business )報(bào)告稱，新生平均績(jī)點(diǎn)從3.49小幅上漲至3.50。但就總體而言，新生本科階段的平均績(jī)點(diǎn)與去年同期完全相同：哈佛大學(xué)、哥倫比亞大學(xué)(Columbia University)、加州大學(xué)伯克利分校哈斯商學(xué)院和杜克大學(xué)(Duke University)福庫(kù)商學(xué)院( Fuqua School)的平均績(jī)點(diǎn)依次為3.67、3.50、3.61和3.40。

????大多數(shù)招生官員和院長(zhǎng)表示，今年的申請(qǐng)者素質(zhì)位居史上最佳之列。“申請(qǐng)者的整體素質(zhì)變得更強(qiáng)了，”芝加哥布斯商學(xué)院全日制MBA院校副院長(zhǎng)斯泰西?R?科萊說(shuō)。“今年的GMAT成績(jī)中位數(shù)為730分，處于第96個(gè)百分位數(shù)。現(xiàn)如今，GMAT成績(jī)?cè)?80分以下的申請(qǐng)者已經(jīng)變得極其罕見(jiàn)。我10年前來(lái)這里時(shí)，GMAT平均分為695分，而今年達(dá)到創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的723分。看上去我們的GMAT分?jǐn)?shù)并不遜色于兄弟院校。”事實(shí)上，芝加哥大學(xué)布斯商學(xué)院今年的GMAT成績(jī)中位數(shù)與哈佛商學(xué)院相等，是該校歷史上的第一次。

????今年的美國(guó)最佳商學(xué)院排名中，前20名確實(shí)有所變化，但變化不大。加州大學(xué)伯克利分校哈斯商學(xué)院與杜克大學(xué)福庫(kù)商學(xué)院今年交換了位次：福庫(kù)位居第9名，哈斯下降至第10名。與此同時(shí)，密歇根大學(xué)(University of Michigan)羅斯商學(xué)院(Ross School)和弗吉尼亞大學(xué)(University of Virginia)達(dá)頓商學(xué)院( Darden School)也交換了名次。這所中西部名校上升到第12名，而達(dá)頓商學(xué)院則下滑至第13名。位于這些位置互換中間的，是依然穩(wěn)居第11名的康奈爾大學(xué)(Cornell University)約翰遜管理研究生學(xué)院(Johnson Graduate School of Management)。

????雖然它的北加州表弟有所下降，但加州大學(xué)洛杉磯分校(UCLA)的位次已經(jīng)從第17名升至第14名。它甚至把紐約大學(xué)(NYU)斯特恩商學(xué)院( Stern School )從第14名擠到了第15位。同時(shí)，耶魯大學(xué)管理學(xué)院(Yale School of Management)從去年的第15名下降至第17名。實(shí)際上，在《美國(guó)新聞與世界報(bào)道》和《金融時(shí)報(bào)》(Financial Times)發(fā)布的美國(guó)商學(xué)院榜單上，耶魯大學(xué)的排名高于加州大學(xué)洛杉磯分校，但其他排名，尤其是注重投資回報(bào)率的《福布斯》(Forbes)榜單，更青睞這家位于洛杉磯的商學(xué)院。

????與其他排名不同，Poets&Quants綜合排名結(jié)合了世界上最有影響力的5份商學(xué)院榜單的最新成果，這些榜單的發(fā)布者分別是《彭博商業(yè)周刊》、《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》(The Economist)、《金融時(shí)報(bào)》、《福布斯》和《美國(guó)新聞與世界報(bào)道》。Poets&Quants綜合排名并不是僅僅計(jì)算這些榜單的平均值，而是依據(jù)每份榜單的權(quán)威性和信譽(yù)，對(duì)其分別加權(quán)——《彭博商業(yè)周刊》、福布斯》和《美國(guó)新聞與世界報(bào)道》的權(quán)重皆為25%，《金融時(shí)報(bào)》為15%，《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》為10%。

????綜合考慮這5份最有影響力的商學(xué)院榜單并不會(huì)完全消除每套排名體系的缺陷，但這樣做確實(shí)可以顯著弱化單個(gè)榜單的不足之處。任何一個(gè)榜單可能會(huì)因?yàn)殄e(cuò)誤的調(diào)查技術(shù)或帶有偏見(jiàn)的排名方法而出現(xiàn)反常情況，而把所有數(shù)據(jù)放在一起則可以抑制這種現(xiàn)象。所以，這項(xiàng)綜合排名有助于降低這些榜單的噪音，從而更加直接地向外界傳遞真實(shí)信號(hào)。

????譯者：葉寒

????Undergraduate grade point averages -- already high -- remained pretty stable with some noteworthy exceptions. At Stanford, average GPA crept higher to an astounding 3.73, highest of any U.S. business school and up from 3.69 last year. At Chicago Booth, GPA eked up to 3.57 this year, from 3.52 a year earlier. Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business reported a tiny increase to 3.50 from 3.49. In general, though, undergraduate GPAs were exactly the same year-over-year: A 3.67 at Harvard, a 3.50 at Columbia, a 3.61 at UC-Berkeley Haas, and a 3.40 at Duke University's Fuqua School.

????Most admissions officials and deans say the applicant pool is among the best they have ever seen. "The quality of the pool is just stronger," says Stacey R. Kole, deputy dean of the full-time MBA program at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. "We hit a 730 median GMAT this year, the 96th percentile. There are very few people under 680 these days. When I got here 10 years ago, the average GMAT was 695. It's a record this year at 723. And it's not like we just shimmied under the bar on GMAT." Indeed, Chicago Booth's 730 median is now equal to Harvard Business School for the first time in the school's history.

????When it comes to this year's ranking of the best, the top 20 did change -- but not much. UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Duke University's Fuqua School switched places this year: Fuqua took the ninth spot, and Haas landed in tenth place. Meanwhile, the University of Michigan's Ross School and the University of Virginia's Darden School also pulled a switch. The Midwestern titan rose to No. 12, while Darden slipped to No. 13. In the middle of all the swapping, Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management remained stable at No. 11.

????Though its Northern Californian cousin slipped a little, UCLA climbed from No. 17 to No. 14. It even bumped NYU's Stern School out of the No. 14 spot, sending it down to No. 15. Meanwhile, Yale School of Management finished at No. 17, down from 15 last year. U.S. News and the Financial Times actually placed Yale above UCLA, but the other rankings -- in particular, the return-on-investment focused Forbes list -- favored the Los Angeles-based school.

????Unlike other rankings, the Poets&Quants composite list combines the latest results from the five most influential business school rankings in the world: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. Instead of merely averaging the five, each ranking is separately weighted to account for their authority and credibility. (The BusinessWeek, Forbes, and U.S. News lists are given a weight of 25% each, while the FT is given a 15% weight, and The Economist is given a 10% weight).

????Combining the five most influential rankings doesn't eliminate the flaws in each system, but it does significantly diminish them. When an anomaly pops up on one list due to either faulty survey technique or biased methodology, bringing all the data together tends to suppress it. So the composite index tones down the noise in each of these five surveys to get more directly at the real signal that is being sent.