What does this mean and why should we care?  I could answer this question for law schools but I have not idea what this means in relation to biz schools.  I can also tell you what the ranking of law schools means for the politics and social relations in general, if anyone cares.  But I don't have any idea what a Biz School really does or how it functions to create the bastards who manage our system of inefficiency.  Jerry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael C. Jensen <<a href="mailto:admin@ssrn.com">admin@ssrn.com</a>> Date: Apr 27, 2006 10:58 AM Subject: Top Business School Rankings in SSRN eLibrary (Beta) To: <a href="mailto:SSRN-SUPER@publisher.ssrn.com">SSRN-SUPER@publisher.ssrn.com</a> SSRN is pleased to announce a new service: Top Business Schools Rankings based on downloads from SSRN's eLibrary.  This list will be updated at the beginning of each month and joins the Top Law School Rankings, announced last year. The Top Business School Rankings includes U.S. Business School and International Business School Rankings along with an aggregate Ranking of over 800 Business Schools from around the world. The Top 20 U.S. and International Business Schools as measured by downloads of their faculty's papers from SSRN over the last 12 months are: SSRN TOP 20 U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOLS (BETA) 1   Harvard Business School 2   University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business 3   University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School 4   Yale School of Management 5   New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business 6   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of  Management 7   Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan 8   Columbia University - Columbia Business School 9   Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business 10  William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration 11  Duke University - Fuqua School of Business 12  University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business 13  Stanford Graduate School of Business 14  University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business 15  Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management 16  Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business 17  Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of  Management 18  Indiana University Bloomington - Kelley School of Business 19  University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business 20  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business To view the full list of U.S. Business Schools go to: <a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/rankings/Ranking_Display.cfm?TMY_gID=2&TRN_gID=11"> http://hq.ssrn.com/rankings/Ranking_Display.cfm?TMY_gID=2&TRN_gID=11</a> SSRN TOP 20 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOLS (BETA) 1   University of London - London Business School 2   Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management 3   Tilburg University - CentER and Faculty of Economics and Business Administration 4   City University London - Sir John Cass Business School 5   IESE Business School - University of Navarra 6   University of British Columbia - Sauder School of Business 7   University of Zurich - Faculty of Business Administration 8   Hong Kong University of Science & Technology - School of Business and Management 9   University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management 10  Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences 11  University of Amsterdam - Business School 12  Lancaster University - Management School 13  University of Reading - Business School 14  University of Maastricht (formerly University of Limburg) - Faculty of Economics & Business Administration 15  University of Oxford - Said Business School 16  Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business Administration 17  Middlesex University - Business School 18  Aarhus School of Business 19  McGill University - Faculty of Management 20  University of Cambridge - Judge Business School To view the full list of International Business Schools go to: <a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/rankings/Ranking_Display.cfm?TMY_gID=2&TRN_gID=12">http://hq.ssrn.com/rankings/Ranking_Display.cfm?TMY_gID=2&TRN_gID=12</a> To view the full list of all 800 plus Business Schools go to: <a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/Rankings/Ranking_display.cfm?TRN_gID=4&TMY_gID=2">http://hq.ssrn.com/Rankings/Ranking_display.cfm?TRN_gID=4&TMY_gID=2</a> To access the full data table on our web site, you must register in SSRN HQ (registration is free).   If you are not registered, you will be prompted to do so.  You can also reach all of the Top Business School Rankings from the Top Institutions Link on the SSRN Home page at:   <a href="http://ssrn.com">http://ssrn.com</a> SSRN ranks over 800 business schools worldwide on 9 separate measures including total lifetime downloads of their faculty's papers on SSRN, total number of papers on SSRN, total number of authors, and downloads per paper and per author.  The Rankings can be resorted on any of the measures by clicking on the column you want to sort by. Clicking again on a column heading reverses the sort. From any of the Top Business School Rankings you can link to time series information on the measures and in some cases to data from which the measures are calculated. These historical figures will be added as we complete their calculation over the next two months. You can link to a list of the authors affiliated with each institution on SSRN and from there you have one-click access to each "author home page" on SSRN, which lists all the author's other research on SSRN. In the near future, SSRN will also create similar rankings in other fields covered by SSRN. Some cautions:  We believe these rankings can  be a useful source of information about the productivity and influence of each school's faculty (to the extent that faculty members post their research to SSRN).  At the same time, rankings based on number of downloads or number of papers posted to SSRN have important biases and limitations.  We trust that our readers will use them carefully. These rankings are a "beta" version.  We welcome corrections to our data and suggestions for changes in methodology. Please write to: <a href="mailto:CommentsSuggestions@SSRN.com">CommentsSuggestions@SSRN.com</a> Sincerely, Michael C. Jensen Chairman, Social Science Research Network Director, Management Research Network