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 |
| 1. Harvard University |
Boston, MA |
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| 2. Stanford University |
Stanford, CA |
Sakai |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 11. New York University (Stern) |
New York, NY |
Blackboard |
| 12. Duke University (Fuqua) |
Durham, NC |
Home-grown |
| 13. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross) |
Ann Arbor, MI |
Sakai, among others |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 24. Indiana University-Bloomington (Kelley) |
Bloomington, IN |
Mostly Sakai, some Angel |
| 25. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) |
St. Louis, MO |
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Ranking based on US News & World Report.