I’ve been wondering how Sakai fares among professional schools in the USA, so as a first experiment, I grabbed the top 25 business schools in 2009 as per US News & World Report and did some research.
Given how business schools have the reputation of hewing to proprietary systems and going their own way, I was surprised by Sakai’s strong showing. 3 of the the top 10 business schools use Sakai as their primary online learning system. At least 6 out of the top 25 schools either already use Sakai as their primary system or soon will. I also know that at least 9 other schools in this list are either actively investigating Sakai or have some impetus to adopt Sakai.
I’m still collecting information from a couple of campuses and I welcome your comments. If you know the priamry online learning system for any of the schools not accounted for yet here, leave a comment below or contact me and I’ll update the list.
Online Learning Systems at the Top 25 USA Business Schools
updated 26 January 2010
| Institution | Location | Online Learning System |
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| 1. Harvard University | Boston, MA | |
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| 2. Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Sakai |
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| 3. Northwestern University (Kellogg) | Evanston, IL | |
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| 4. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | Philadelphia, PA | |
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| 5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) | Cambridge, MA | |
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| 6. University of Chicago (Booth) | Chicago, IL | |
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| 7. University of California-Berkeley (Haas) | Berkeley, CA | Sakai |
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| 8. Dartmouth College (Tuck) | Hanover, NH | |
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| 9. Columbia University | New York, NY | |
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| 10. Yale University | New Haven, CT | Sakai |
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| 11. New York University (Stern) | New York, NY | Blackboard |
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| 12. Duke University (Fuqua) | Durham, NC | Home-grown |
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| 13. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross) | Ann Arbor, MI | Sakai, among others |
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| 14. University of California-Los Angeles (Anderson) | Los Angeles, CA | |
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| 15. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | Pittsburgh, PA | |
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| 16. University of Virginia (Darden) | Charlottesville, VA | moving to Sakai Summer 2010 |
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| 17. Cornell University (Johnson) | Ithaca, NY | |
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| 18. University of Texas-Austin (McCombs) | Austin, TX | |
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| 19. Georgetown University (McDonough) | Washington, DC | |
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| 20. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) | Chapel Hill, NC | |
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| 21. University of Southern California (Marshall) | Los Angeles, CA | |
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| 22. Emory University (Goizueta) | Atlanta, GA | |
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| 23. Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | Sakai |
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| 24. Indiana University-Bloomington (Kelley) | Bloomington, IN | Mostly Sakai, some Angel |
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| 25. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | St. Louis, MO | |
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Ranking based on US News & World Report.