- A recent Wall Street Journal article discusses the challenges business school graduates are facing with regard to the still-difficult-to-penetrate job market. Fewer students are receiving multiple job offers, salaries are still not quite as high as they were pre-recession, and companies are recruiting "closer to home" to save money. For more information, view the full article which contains specific data from a GMAC survey that was conducted in September, as well as an interview with Nicole Hall, president of the MBA Career Services Council and the career services executive director for Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management.
- More and more non-Asian students are attending business schools in Asia, reports a CNN article, "MBA in Asia: Stepping stone into greater China." The schools in the region (particularly in China) are becoming more attractive to western students because of the "projections of growth that are five, six, seven-times what they are for the Western world for the next decade." Talk about growth—in the last 10 years alone the number of MBA programs in China tripled to more than 250!
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