Business Schools

Lesser-Known B-Schools Catapult to Top in MBA Recruiter Survey

Employers grade universities on the value of a business school’s brand, innovation and creativity, diversity, and entrepreneurship.

A job seeker shakes hands with a recruiter at a job fair in Cleveland.

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

When you want to know the quality of a school’s MBA grads, ask the people who hire them. We did. The answers aren’t all the usual suspects.

Yes, Stanford, Yale, and INSEAD score well, but so do lesser-known schools such as IMD, University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, and Georgia Tech.