Stanford Business School and Harvard Business School are considered as the best business schools in America. These two colleges have tied for the first place in the ranking of business schools in authoritative American magazines for many times. When it comes to Stanford Business School, people will inevitably think of its rival Harvard Business School. Judging from the number of students, Stanford Business School is much smaller than Harvard Business School.
Stanford has 720 MBA students, while Harvard has nearly 2,000. Moreover, Harvard has various training programs for enterprise management talents, ranging from two years to several days, with as many as 5,000 people trained each year. Stanford only has the Si Long enterprise management talent training program, which lasts for ten months and only recruits about 50 people every year.
However, in terms of the quality of students, among the more than 730 business schools in the United States, no business school has such fierce competition for enrollment as Stanford Business School.
In recent years, 5,000 to 6,000 people applied for admission to Stanford Business School every year, but only 360 lucky people got their wish. From this perspective, Stanford Business School is the most expensive business school in the United States.
Harvard and Stanford, two business schools, one is located in the eastern United States and the other is located in the center of Silicon Valley in western California. This geographical difference not only makes the two colleges have different histories, but also makes them have their own strengths in educational styles.
Many people in Stanford Business School proudly believe that Harvard Business School represents more traditional management training and cultivates large enterprise management talents with "suits and ties"; Stanford Business School, on the other hand, emphasizes the "small enterprise spirit" of establishing new technology enterprises and trains a new generation of small entrepreneurs wearing T-shirts. For example, the founders of Hewlett-Packard, the oldest high-tech company in Silicon Valley, are both Stanford graduates.