Tag Archive | "rankings"
Current, MBA
Test prep companies have a busy season ahead of them; test prep traffic is bound to increase as future b-school applicants scramble to prepare for the Next Generation GMAT, reports a Businessweek article, “GMAT Test Prep: Changes on the Way.” The new GMAT, which will launch in 2012, will include a new integrated reasoning section [...]
Bschool Life, MBA
John Byrne, granddaddy of rankings, creator of the 1988 Businessweek ranking, which caused (to quote Ghostbusters) “Fire and Brimestone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!…dogs and cats living together…mass hysteria.” Schools reacted to that ranking with significant change and improvement to curriculum, faculty training, student selection and corporate education. Now Mr. [...]
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MBA programs are overhauling their curricula to reflect the needs of the modern student. According to a recent Forbes article, that student is “one who increasingly looks to do good while also doing well.”
Current courses now include more hands-on, problem-solving components. (These are offered in addition to “the basics” of accounting, finance, etc.)
Here are the [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
Some facts:
When the Financial Times began their global MBA rankings in 1999, 20 out of the 25 top business schools on the list were from the U.S. The remaining five were European b-schools. In 2010, of the 25 top international business schools, 11 are from the U.S., 11 are European, and three [...]
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 [...]
Current, MBA
U.S. News and World Report has had a lot of coverage recently on the boom in GRE popularity among top U.S. business schools.
The option to take the GRE instead of the GMAT exam is a somewhat recent development. What began as a trend (started by Stanford GSB) among a few schools has exploded into an [...]
Blog, MBA
Consortium Applicants Fall 2010 - get a better understanding of The Consortium and what to expect at OP
US News Rankings Leak – second year in a row. Last year the leak happened quite a bit earlier; this year, again, we have a preview of what US News will release on April 15th
Bschool Life, Career, MBA
It’s been a busy week in the world of MBA and college admissions. Check out some of this week’s highlights with an exciting Accepted.com round up!
A recent survey conducted by Public Agenda shows that high school guidance counselors are not quite as effective at helping students get into college as they once were. The reason, [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA, Other
B-schools are no longer content staying on home soil, reports the Financial Times in a supplementary article to their recent Global MBA Rankings.
The latest expansionist trend is to extend the traditional four-walled classroom overseas. Harvard Business School used to pride itself on its steadfast commitment to bring students to the school and NOT to bring [...]
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 [...]
