Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Wisconsin:
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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via The New York Times:
David Leonhardt: ‘By the Time Trump Comes for Your University, It’s Probably Too Late’
by David Leonhardt and Patrick Healy
published on March 27, 2025
Pull Quote:
“American higher education is the strongest higher education sector in the world and it’s not particularly close. You can look at rankings of the world’s top universities — many of which are produced by people outside the United States — and U.S. universities dominate them.”
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By 11th grade, the high-IQ students and their parents have spent so many years immersed in the college-admissions game that they, like 18th-century aristocrats evaluating which family has the most noble line, are able to make all sorts of fine distinctions about which universities have the most prestige: Princeton is better than Cornell; Williams is better than Colby.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Question: What has been the change in Brazil’s per capita GDP in both nominal and PPP terms – expressed in US Dollars – since 1995?
Via IMF datasets for Nominal GDP and PPP GDP respectively.
| Year | Nominal GDP per Capita (USD) | GDP per Capita (PPP) (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | $4,852 | $8,364 |
| 2000 | $3,752 | $9,328 |
| 2005 | $4,806 | $11,334 |
| 2010 | $11,341 | $15,160 |
| 2015 | $8,893 | $17,337 |
| 2020 | $7,057 | $18,485 |
| 2025 (Est.) | $10,578 | $23,239 |
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