????美國最佳本科商業(yè)商學(xué)院花落誰家,？

????如果你相信《美國新聞與世界報(bào)道》（U.S. News & World Report）的年度排名，榜首非沃頓商學(xué)院（Wharton）莫屬,。如果你認(rèn)為對(duì)于優(yōu)秀商業(yè)課程的理解,，《彭博商業(yè)周刊》（Bloomberg BusinessWeek）更勝一籌，那么你會(huì)意外地發(fā)現(xiàn),，沃頓商學(xué)院甚至沒有進(jìn)入前五名,。《商業(yè)周刊》更看好圣母大學(xué)（Notre Dame University）的門多薩商學(xué)院（Mendoza College of Business）,。

????而我們則從一個(gè)新的角度研究最佳商業(yè)課程,，將兩個(gè)最受關(guān)注的本科課程排名結(jié)果與一項(xiàng)最新的重要分析結(jié)果相結(jié)合，它就是《美國新聞與世界報(bào)道》的美國大學(xué)年度排名,。畢竟,，在任何商學(xué)院，商業(yè)專業(yè)學(xué)生在本科四年期間都會(huì)選修其他院系的課程,。因此,，學(xué)院的總體排名應(yīng)該與商業(yè)課程的質(zhì)量同樣重要。

????根據(jù)這種綜合方法,，賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)（University of Pennsylvania）的沃頓商學(xué)院名列榜首,，遙遙領(lǐng)先于并列第二名的兩所院校：康奈爾大學(xué)（Cornell University）戴森學(xué)院（Dyson School）與圣母大學(xué)。弗吉尼亞大學(xué)（University of Virginia）麥金泰爾商學(xué)院（McIntire School of Business）名列第四,，華盛頓大學(xué)（Washington University）奧林商學(xué)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(xué)院分別來自加州大學(xué)伯克利分校（UC-Berkeley）、密歇根大學(xué)（University of Michigan）,、埃默里大學(xué)（Emory University）,、北卡羅來納大學(xué)教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）和卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)（Carnegie Mellon University）。

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

????沃頓的勝出并不令人意外。沃頓商學(xué)院有美國最受人尊敬,、篩選最嚴(yán)格的本科商業(yè)課程,。賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)的錄取率為12%，雖然這所學(xué)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(xué)院錄取比進(jìn)入賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)更加困難。隨著一批名副其實(shí)的美國知名公司向這所商學(xué)院2014屆約650名學(xué)生發(fā)出工作邀請(qǐng),，又一批新鮮出爐的沃頓商學(xué)人即將加入全球報(bào)酬最豐厚的商學(xué)院本科生行列,。

????在美國，隨著申請(qǐng)就讀商學(xué)院的人數(shù)越來越多,，要進(jìn)入頂級(jí)本科商學(xué)院也變得更加困難,。排名靠前的許多家商學(xué)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(xué)院的SAT平均分就提高了22分,，達(dá)到1466分（我們使用的是較早的計(jì)分方法，1600分為滿分,，而不是目前使用的2400分）,。這個(gè)分?jǐn)?shù)線要遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)高于SAT考生1050分的總體平均分。

????沃頓商學(xué)院本科商業(yè)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(xué)院的趨勢為例，在過去十年里,，單就申請(qǐng)人數(shù)來說,，幾乎一直在增長,，只有2008年的金融危機(jī)時(shí)期除外。在當(dāng)前的入學(xué)申請(qǐng)周期中,，申請(qǐng)人數(shù)增加了13%,。我認(rèn)為，這代表了一種更為普遍的理解,，即商業(yè)貫穿多個(gè)領(lǐng)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.”