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Ever wonder how BusinessWeek goes about grading B-school programs? Read on for answers

• When is the Undergraduate Business Program ranking published?
• How does BusinessWeek determine who is eligible for rankings?
• If a school has never been ranked before, how can it be considered for ranking?
• What sources of data does BusinessWeek use to rank programs?
• When does each of the surveys get distributed? How long are they available for completion?
• How is the student survey conducted?
• How is the recruiter survey conducted?
• How do we calculate starting salaries for undergraduates?
• How do we determine which schools give graduates a better chance of getting into a top-ranked MBA program?
• How do we measure educational quality?
• How is each of the factors weighted?
• Do schools ever get dropped from the rankings? Why?
• Is there a minimum response rate? How is the response rate calculated?
• What alternatives are there for schools that don't want to supply student e-mail addresses?
• How is the response rate calculated for schools that choose the "opt-out" method?
• How is the response rate calculated for schools that choose the "opt-in" method?
• What do we do when schools refuse to provide e-mail addresses for the student survey and decline to use the other alternatives available to them?
• How does BusinessWeek prevent cheating?
• Why do we only rank 50 undergraduate business programs?
• In the table that accompanies the ranking story, where do the letter grades come from?
• What is the index number provided in the table?
• Why do we rank public and private schools separately?
• Why do we rank two-year and four-year programs separately?
• What role, if any, do schools play in the surveys, beyond providing e-mail addresses for the student survey or distributing that survey on BusinessWeek's behalf?
• Do the schools have any input into the content of the surveys? Is the student survey ever provided to schools?
• Are schools permitted to communicate with their students about the student survey?
• Is the data collected from the schools for the online statistical profiles used in the ranking?
• What happens if a school doesn't fill out the survey for the statistical profile by the deadline?
• How does BusinessWeek find students to interview?

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