Ranked 3rd in the 2008 survey, Columbia Business School has swapped position with Harvard Business School this year.
Columbia University Graduate School of Business was founded in 1916 by A Barton Hepburn, president of Chase Manhattan Bank then, with 11 faculty members and 61 students.
Currently, the university offers full-time MBA programmes, executive MBAs and doctoral programmes with over 36,000 students. Warren Buffet, the legendary chairman of Berkshire Hathway did his MS in 1951 from Columbia Business School.
Average alumni salary today (in US $): 1,64,310
Photograph courtesy: Columbia Business School
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Photograph courtesy: Columbia Business School
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