Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of AACSB-accredited schools (accounting)/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted by Giants2008 21:29, 9 March 2014 [1].

List of AACSB-accredited schools (accounting)[edit]

Featured list candidates/List of AACSB-accredited schools (accounting)/archive1

Nominator(s): Well-rested ^Talk 12:55, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because this is one of the most important evaluations a school could go through with regards to accounting education, and because it is informative for future generations of accounting students. Well-rested ^Talk 12:55, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Quick comment on the title of the list: as stated in the body of the article, there are currently two types of AACSB accreditation, business and accounting. This list focuses on the accounting accreditation only, since it would not have been possible to combine both business- and accounting-accredited schools into a single list (it would definitely have been over 60kb). At some point I might create "List of AACSB-accredited schools (business)" to focus on schools with only the business accreditation, so the two lists will have nicely consistent titles. -Well-rested ^Talk 13:02, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment why is there a column that lists the state in some cases, the city in others, and then none at all in others? I would think it would be best to not mix levels of government in a single column. I suggest choosing one and applying it consistently to all colleges. Or if you want to maintain the "state", make it a second column. Mattximus (talk) 15:18, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. That column actually lists only states, with the exception of the universities from China. The closest equivalent to "states" in China are provinces, which include Beijing (a Municipality) and Hong Kong (a Special Administrative Region). I've therefore edited the header to reflect that the column includes either states or provinces. -Well-rested ^Talk 19:08, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure it wouldn't be better to just list the city instead of the state/province? At the very least you need to fill in those blanks for all but Singapore. Also, it's more common here to call it Taiwan rather than Chinese Taipei. And I believe that you should link at least the first incidence of the country in the table to the corresponding wiki page. Mattximus (talk) 17:34, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mattximus. I think you're right regarding Taiwan vs. Chinese Taipei. I used the latter simply because the AACSB uses that in its list of accounting-accredited schools, but yeah I should probably use the common name. (I'm not too familiar with country naming conventions!) Suggestions implemented. :)
Regarding the state/province/city, I think you're right that city might be better since it's a little more specific. What do you think of having both city and state as columns? Would that be overkill? Just checking before I make the change.

--Well-rested ^Talk 19:05, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changes being made. Just adding a note that I'll be making some changes to the list based on Mattximus' suggestions, in particular adding city information (either as a separate column or in place of the state column). I'm also considering adding some other information available on the AACSB's website, namely enrollment and possibly number of faculty. I'll add an update here when the changes are completed. -Well-rested ^Talk 19:22, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: (having stumbled here from my FLC discussion page). Looks pretty good but I see from the above comment by Well-rested that some changes are in progress. Please update when that's done and I'll revisit with additional comments. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 00:28, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Drive by Comment - It seems that the school and university columns are not separated properly (there are schools in the university column and vice versa). Will return if there is movement on the list.-Godot13 (talk) 07:38, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - looks like Well-rested never managed to come back to this, there's been no activity for a month. It's laid out the way the header says for about half the list, then the city column turns into a state, then the college and university columns swap places and the US stops being linked. Also: Ref 1 needs more detail, Wall Street Journal at minimum should be linked in ref 3, and "and almost the top business programs in the United States" needs an "all". --Pres N 19:12, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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