Appendix B - MBA schools rating via Internet

Note: this table uses a very US-centric ratings system with high points awarded for having prescribed policies and seperate LBG associations and less for actual benefits offered. There is also no judgement/score for how tolerant the general student and staff body are towards LBG students. The author of this paper has communicated with this tables author and appreciates the reasoning behind the scoring system used.

However, Australians would place less weight to having something 'in writing' and more on how the reality is - ie whether equal benefits are available and how accepted gay students themselves feel. Australians would reason that in a fully accepting environment, and one without discrimination, there would be no need for a LBG Club or Alumni for example. Under an Australian-centric ratings system Dartmouth and Chicago would rate considerably higher in this table.

The author of this paper is, apparently, the first openly gay student at Melbourne Business School and has found fellow students both tolerant and accepting of himself and his partner - when considering where to study this may factor larger in the decision of any gay man or woman than whether a small and beseiged Club exists.

Source: Report on the Gay-Friendliness of the Nation's Top Business Schools
by Jason P. Lorber at Stanford Queer Resources, QR@isg.stanford.edu

Business
School
Grade
Total
Score
out
of
100
Non-
discrim.
Policy
on
sexual
orient
LBG
Bus
School
Studt
Club
LBG
Under
grad
Studt
Club
LBG
Info
in Admiss.
Broch
Openly LBG Student
in Admiss. Broch
Domestic Partner
Benefits
 
LBG B School Alumni Org.
LBG spcfic Job Info Avail.
Openly LBG B School Profs
         
for
Faclty
for
Studts
   
Harvard
1
97.5
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Stanford
2
95.0
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
-
Yale
3
90.0
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
Y
Y
Y
-
-
Michigan
4
87.5
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
Y
Y
-
Y
-
N.Y.U.
4
87.5
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
Y
-
-
Y
Y
U of Penn.
6
85.0
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
Y
Y
-
-
-
Columbia
7
82.5
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
Y
-
(b)
-
-
Northwestern
7
82.5
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
Y
-
-
-
-
Y
U.C.L.A.
7
82.5
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
-
-
(b)
-
Y
U.C. Berkeley
10
80.0
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
-
-
-
-
Y
Cornell
11
75.0
Y
(b)
Y
(c,d)
-
Y
-
-
-
-
Dartmouth
11
75.0
Y
-
Y
(d)
-
Y
Y
-
Y
-
Virginia
11
75.0
Y
Y
Y
(c,d)
-
-
-
-
-
-
Chicago
14
72.5
Y
-
Y
(d)
-
Y
Y
-
-
-
CarnegieMellon
15
67.5
Y
-
Y
(d)
-
(e)
(e)
-
-
-
Indiana
15
67.5
Y
(b)
Y
(d)
-
-
-
-
-
-
M.I.T.
15
67.5
Y
-
Y
(d)
-
Y
-
-
-
-
Duke
18
62.5
Y
-
Y
(d)
-
-
-
-
-
-
North Carolina
19
60.0
Y
-
Y
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
TX at Austin
19
60.0
Y
-
Y
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
U.S.C.
19
60.0
Y
-
Y
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Purdue
22
35.0
(a)
-
Y
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
MELBOURNE
in comparison
18
62.5
Y
-
Y
(c,d)
-
-
-
-
-
-

Notes

Melbourne Business School is consistently rated the best MBA programme in the Asian region and, interestingly, there is a high correlation between the reputation of US Business Schools and how highly they score in this table.

"LBG" = Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay
"Y" = Criterion met
"-" = indicates criterion not met
a) Prohibits discrimination for "any person...for any reason." Nine bases are specified on which materials discrimination is barred (sex, age, Vietnam veteran, etc.). Sexual orientation is not noted.
(b) Informal network.
(c) LesBiGay B-School student club noted in admissions handbook.
(d) Policy forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation printed in materials
(e) Some domestic partner benefits offered, but not health care.

Criteria: 100 Points total

  • Policy of Non-Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation 50.0 points
  • LesBiGay Information in the Admissions Brochure: 7.5 points comprised of Non-Discrimination Policy Mentioned (2.5 points), LesBiGay B-School Student Organization Mentioned (2.5 points), LesBiGay Student Profiled (2.5 points)
  • LesBiGay B-School Student Organization 10.0 points
  • Undergraduate LesBiGay Student Organization 10.0 points
  • Domestic Partner Benefits: 10.0 points comprised of Benefits for Staff and Faculty (5.0 points), Benefits for Students (5.0 points)
  • Openly LesBiGay B-School Professors 5.0 points
  • LesBiGay B-School Alumni Organization 5.0 points
  • LesBiGay Information in the Career/Job Center 2.5 points

Back to Appendix A - Homophobic comments from Mobil Diary Up to Table of Contents Ahead to Appendix C - Personality profiles: gay men and heterosexuals


This work remains the property of the author (grantdale@geocities.com) and of the University of Melbourne and may not be reproduced, stored or edited in any way without the expressed permission of the author. It may be quoted for academic purposes provided the author is acknowledged.


Find your way around our site.
Home Page
Who Are We?
D&G Update
As it is...
Welcome to Prahran
Rebecca & Shannon
Our Families
Our Friends
Indonesian holidays
Local holidays
Grant's resume
Work from Grant's MBA
Dale's resume
Resource list
Email us!

This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page

Copyright © 1997, 1998 to Grant & Dale at grantdale@geocities.com All Rights Reserved.
URL: http://geocities.datacellar.net/WestHollywood/7378/
New format posted January 13, 1998
This page revised 19 August 1998

1