How are B-Schools Assisting their Home Institutions in Moving Up the U.S. News & World Report Rankings?

With the CSU community discussing the latest news that U.S. News & World Report now includes it among the National Universities that it ranks each year, Turner Business decided to take a look at how institutions' business schools are contributing to those institutions' overall ranking by U.S. News & World Report. This examination simply involves a comparison of each university's overall ranking to that of its business school. This information for the Georgia-based National Universities is provided in the table below.

As indicated in the table above, CSU's Turner College ranks higher (by 32 places) among the nation's business schools than CSU ranks among the nation's universities. As such, the Turner College is doing its share to elevate CSU among the national universities. The push up the rankings that the Turner College is providing CSU is similar in magnitude to the push provided by the Terry College of Business to the University of Georgia, as well as to the push that the Langdale College of Business is providing Valdosta State University. Among the Georgia-based institutions above, the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State is (at 193 places) providing the strongest push, followed by the Robinson College of Business (at 133 places) at Georgia State University. Three of the business schools listed above are pulling their home institutions down in the national overall rankings. The most prominent of these examples is the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business' pull (by 96 places) of Mercer University. Similarly, the Hull College of Business is pulling Augusta University down the overall rankings by as much as 73 places. In fact, the Turner College and the Hull College are tied at 390th among the nation's business schools, even though CSU is a third-tier institution in the University System of Georgia while Augusta University is a first-tier institution in that same organization.