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Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
The Financial Times published today its 2010 ranking of global MBA programs. Its ranking attempts to “assess the effect of the MBA on … subsequent career progression and salary growth.” Consequently it draws its data from the schools themselves and from surveys of graduates at least three years after earning their MBA degree. In [...]
Blog, Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, GMAT, Interviews, MBA
Here are some news tidbits from last week:
BusinessWeek reported some good news last week regarding the job market, particularly for new college graduates. The National Association of Colleges and Employers reported a turnaround in college hiring. Surveys show that the recent economic recession hit college graduates ages 22 to 27 among the hardest. BW states [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Interviews, MBA
A few bits of communications this week reveal the uncertainly among 2010 MBA applicants now and the new opportunities provided by the earlier Round 1 deadlines/notification dates set by certain schools.
Here’s what I’m referring to:
On the BusinessWeek Forum, Todoubled started a fairly active thread with the title “Denied from Wharton/Chicago, what next?”
I received an email [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, GMAT, Interviews, MBA
Accepted has posted the transcripts from the recent chats with MIT Sloan and Wharton. If you are applying to these schools, I encourage you to review the them. Here are excerpts:
MIT Sloan Q&A with Rod Garcia and Jennifer Barba:
Nikhil (Aug 12, 2009 12:06:36 PM)
Jen: How important are Grad school GPAs if the major is the [...]
Blog, Bschool Life, Career, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
Several worthwhile pieces of interest came out over the last few days:
BusinessWeek published this week a review of six GMAT test prep companies, including user feedback. The six companies are Kaplan, Princeton Review, Newton, Manhattan GMAT, Manhattan Review, and Veritas Prep
Dartmouth announced this week that it will offer a streamlined MBA to its PhD students [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Career, Current, Fun Stuff, Interviews, MBA
Here’s what’s going on:
MIT Sloan Q&A. MIT Sloan launches this years series of chats for Accepted. We will host Jennifer Burke Barba, MIT Sloan’s Assistant Director of MBA Admissions, and other members of the MIT team on Wednesday August 12 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/ 5:00 PM GMT. This is a great opportunity for you [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, GMAT, Interviews, MBA
Let’s see what’s happening at Accepted and in the MBA world at large:
Take 2 — Accepted is hosting its first-ever MBA reapplicant webinar on Thursday Aug 6 at 1:00 PM ET. The webinar is free. Just register to obtain access information.
MIT Sloan MBA Admissions Chat. MIT Sloan will launch our 2010 MBA admissions chats on [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
MIT Sloan 2010 MBA Application Deadlines
Round
Due Date
Notification
Round 1*
Oct 27, 2009
Feb. 1, 2010**
Round 2
Jan 12, 2010
Apr. 5, 2010
Application must be received by 12 noon pacific time.
*Reapplicants must submit their application by the Round I deadline. LFM reapplicants must submit their reapplication by the LFM deadline.
**Decisions will be released early for some candidates who will be denied [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
The US News just released its 2009 Grad School Rankings. I’m going to list the top ten for business school, law school, and medical school (research) and provide links to the ranking methodology for each category. For other graduate specialties, please visit the US News site.
Business School Rankings and methodology
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Northwestern Kellogg
3. Wharton
5. [...]
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 [...]
