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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here we present part eight in our nine-part series, Selecting   Your Target MBA Program. This week, we discuss why choosing a business   school based solely on rankings could be a decision you may live to   seriously regret. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; style=&quot;float: right;&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/dlimm/folders/Jing/media/958b3768-ad3b-442e-a7c1-e3e6a868df5b/2011-01-10_1344.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;183&quot; height=&quot;96&quot;&gt;How many readers moved to Norway, Australia or New Zealand last year?   (Stick with us&amp;mdash;we swear we are going somewhere with this line of   thought.) Maybe a handful, but how many of this handful moved because   the United Nations (UN) determined that people who live in these   countries have the highest standard of living in the world? (The United   States moved from 15th to 4th.) We are guessing   that not one person moved from country to country after reading those   rankings. Why? Because decisions about where you live require you to   consider matters that are practical, emotional, professional, etc. These   are complex decisions&amp;mdash;Norway&amp;rsquo;s top ranking lacks context, because it   measures some variables that may not be terribly important to you and   likely does not measure others that are (for example, your proximity to   your family or the quality of the bar scene or weather in Oslo). So,   when you rationalize the score against your personal considerations, you   will likely determine that running to the local consulate and   immigrating to Norway would not make much sense. Furthermore, these data   are static, and real events continue to individually shape each  country  (for example, Iceland was number for several years and has been   hammered by the global credit crunch), making the UN&amp;rsquo;s rankings out of   date upon publication&amp;mdash;possibly even before.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, why are we telling you all of this? &lt;strong&gt;READ MORE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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