Tag Archive | "CMU Tepper"
Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
In Mistakes, Lessons, MBA, and more…, the author, A, reveals his 6 criteria for applying to MBA programs in the aptly named post “Shortlisting schools.” The six are in order of importance:
Intake % of Indian engineers
Teaching Methodology
Recruitment
Culture
Clubs/extra-curricular
Curriculum and specialization.
I boil down A’s 2-5 to three which I rank as follows:
Professional opportunity (roughly his 3 & a [...]
Career, Current, MBA
According to new Bloomberg Businessweek research, graduates from top business schools (which are also the most expensive programs) earn more straight out of school and down the road than do grads from lower ranked, less expensive schools. And they don’t just make a little more…but a lot.
Robert Dammon, CMU Tepper associate dean and professor, explains [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
Dean of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, Kenneth B. Dunn, announced that he’d be stepping down from his post as dean on January 1, 2011. This information was released in a CMU Tepper press release on Tuesday. Deans at Harvard Business School, Michigan Ross, Chicago Booth, and Northwestern Kellogg have also [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
Do you have questions about Kellogg? Then join Accepted in an admissions chat with Northwestern Kellogg’s Director of Admissions, Beth Flye, and other Kellogg representatives on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT. The Kellogg team can answer all your questions about their admissions practices and its famed general management [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Interviews, MBA
CMU Tepper 2010 MBA Essay Questions
My comments are in red.
A. What are your short-term and long-term goals? How will a Tepper MBA help you to achieve these goals? (Please include any information regarding what steps you have taken to learn more about the Tepper School.
Straight-forward goals question. What do you want to do immediately [...]
Bschool Life, MBA
Second Annual GMAT Club MBA Rankings – Top 20 schools ranked based on the interest each of the Schools generates throughout the year on the GMAT Club’s MBA forum.
Methodology: each of the business school master threads is examined and views are counted to arrive at the final result.
2009 Business School Rankings
(2008 ranking in parenthesis)
1 (2) Kellogg [...]
Bschool Life
We’d like to hear from you!
As a member of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC), we are conducting a survey to help us better understand MBA applicants’ goals and needs. If you are or will be an MBA applicant, we invite you to share your priorities and views on the MBA application process. [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, Interviews, MBA
The Wall St. Journal continues the drum beat of bad news. Recruiting is down at business schools.
A survey by the MBA Career Services Council, an association of business school career offices, reveals:
56% of surveyed career office representatives – a significant jump over the fall figure of 12% — say on-campus recruiting has declined by more than [...]
Current, MBA
This week Accepted is pleased to host Laurie Stewart, Carnegie Mellon’s Executive Director of MBA Admissions, along with other members of the Tepper community during an online CMU Tepper chat on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT. Please join us in Accepted’s chat room.
Coming up next Monday: London [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
There has been a lot of talk about the sudden dearth of financing options for international students who would like to attend American MBA programs. Some applicants are questioning whether to apply if they will have no way of paying for the degree. I decided to research the situation and find out just how bad [...]
