Millenial Branding has conducted a new study of employers and their hiring of recent college graduates. Apparently, 30% of companies are recruiting liberal arts majors, while 34% are looking for computer information systems and engineering majors. Surprisingly, “Only 18% are recruiting finance and accounting majors...

The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies is launching a new Global Program at Wharton, “focused on preparing future global leaders to solve complex business problems in an inter-connected world.” The first class will begin in May 2013 and will work toward an...

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has revealed new data that business school grads are finding more success in the job market. While 54% of graduating MBAs and other management education grads had job offers last year, 62% received offers this year. Things are looking...

Usually when applicants prepare for their admissions interviews, they spend their time trying to figure out what questions will be asked and how they can best answer them. This is important and a good idea. But it’s not the only step to prepping for an...

mbaMission has published an analysis of the new HBS essay requirements. An excerpt: “Harvard Business School (HBS) kicks off the MBA application season again, and this time it is doing so with a significant overhaul of its entire application. HBS has shrunk its written requirements from...

7 Fatal Flaws that Will Doom Your MBA Resume Your MBA resume is an often overlooked component of the b-school application – that is, overlooked from the perspective of the applicant, not the adcom. The adcom readers actually read it, and read it carefully, to whet...

The 2013 Harvard MBA application questions are now online. And they are entirely new. A few of the more significant changes: Just two required 400-word essay An early round 1 deadline (September 24) and decision notification date (Dec. 12) An entirely new component: A required “written reflection” on...

Sweet agony. You have been accepted to both your cherished top-5 reach MBA programs and a strong but less competitive school that has offered you a great scholarship. How do you choose between them? Of course there’s no one right answer, because each person’s MBA priorities...

The Haas School of Business at Berkeley is going to launch three digital pilot courses this summer. The three courses purposely vary in style, instruction, and even in the vendors used to implement them, in order to better assess their effectiveness. The first online course will...

In addition to their traditional Part-Time MBA Program, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern is now offering an Accelerated Part-Time Option. This new option caters to those who have fulfilled certain requirements as undergrads or graduates and can jump straight to the more advanced courses...