{"id":25931,"date":"2014-10-20T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/mba-news-for-prospective-students\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:37:37","slug":"mba-news-for-prospective-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-news-for-prospective-students\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA News for Prospective Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/prospective-student.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3925 alignright\" alt=\"prospective students\" src=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/prospective-student.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>From business schools critiquing the (new-ish) <a href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/2012\/09\/13\/does-my-gmat-integrated-reasoning-score-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\">GMAT Integrated Reasoning<\/a> section to a historic first at Rutgers Business School (and\u2014you guessed it!\u2014more <a href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/2013\/01\/25\/mba-rankings-a-survey-of-the-rankers\/\" target=\"_blank\">business school rankings lists<\/a>), here\u2019s the latest in <a href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/author\/russell-schaffer\/\" target=\"_blank\">MBA news for prospective students<\/a> applying to business school or taking the GMAT.<\/p>\n<h3>How relevant is Integrated Reasoning for your GMAT score?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Kaplan Test Prep\u2019s 2014 survey of admissions officers at over 200 business schools across the United States, 60% say that a prospective student\u2019s score on the GMAT Integrated Reasoning section (launched in June 2012) is not currently an important part of their evaluation of an applicant\u2019s overall GMAT score.This represents a slight uptick from Kaplan\u2019s 2013 survey, when 57% said an applicant\u2019s GMAT Integrated Reasoning score was not important. Despite that finding, Kaplan\u2019s survey also finds that 50% of business schools pinpoint a low GMAT score as \u201cthe biggest application killer,\u201d confirming that prospective students still need to submit a high score overall.And because GMAT takers receive a separate score for the Integrated Reasoning section, poor performance on this section cannot be masked by stronger performance on the Quantitative, Verbal, or Analytical Writing Assessment sections of the test. (<a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2014\/10\/09\/b-schools-still-discount-gmats-ir-section\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poets &amp; Quants<\/a>)<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Rutgers Business School taps into progress<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Rutgers Business School just achieved something Harvard Business School, the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School, and other top ranked MBA programs have strived for, but haven\u2019t been able to achieve: The majority of its new MBA class is women.Prospective students\u2019 takeaway: Rutgers\u2019 overall class size of 79 is tiny compared to that of other business schools. Regardless, an enthusiastic congratulations is still due! Kudos, Rutgers Business School! (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-10-10\/more-than-half-of-new-students-at-rutgers-business-school-are-women#r=nav-r-story\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg BusinessWeek<\/a>)<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The controversy of the international business curriculum<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s going in with Chinese business schools? The world\u2019s largest country has an international business dilemma on its hands. Should (or can) their MBA programs offer truly international business curricula, given internal issues and the fact that the country is not opening up as quickly to the outside as the international business community desires? Who should their business schools cater to? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/dc1acd02-17e6-11e4-a82d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3G3uvJYHu\" target=\"_blank\">The Financial Times<\/a>)<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Want more business school rankings? No problem!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Have the energy to digest another business school rankings list? If so, then take a look at <i>The Economist<\/i>. For the fourth time in five years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobooth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Chicago\u2019s Booth School of Business<\/a> tops its rankings of full-time business schools.Even as banking jobs have become scarcer, Booth School of Business\u2014famous for its finance education\u2014has maintained a strong record of helping its students get jobs. Last year, nearly 95% of Booth\u2019s graduates were employed within three months of leaving. That\u2019s pretty impressive. London Business School is the top ranked British school, but still fell to fifteenth place in 2014\u2019s business school rankings. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21623677-chicago-boys-and-girls-come-top-again-our-business-school-ranking-which-mba-2014\" target=\"_blank\">The Economist<\/a>)<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Rising demand for MBAs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/2014\/08\/19\/why-get-an-mba-to-get-hired\/\" target=\"_blank\">The demand for MBAs<\/a> is up among employers, as is the demand for employees at MBA programs themselves. In fact, employers are going on a veritable hiring spree for MBAs!According to the most recent report by the U.S. Department of Labor, there were 15,000 more business school professors in 2013 than in 2008. Doing the math? We\u2019ll do it for you. That&#8217;s a 22% increase in faculty since the financial crisis hit.Prospective students\u2019 takeaway: The biggest jump in faculty is for adjunct professors, who only teach a couple of classes, at most. (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/10\/10\/news\/economy\/business-schools-on-hiring-spree\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN.c0m<\/a>)<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>What\u2019s the latest in business school news that you\u2019d like to talk about? Share your comments with your fellow aspiring MBAs below, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KaplanGMAT\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaplanGMATPrep\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>; then visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/pages\/unlock-the-good-life\/code?utm_source=offline&amp;utm_medium=collateral&amp;utm_term=pan-grad&amp;utm_content=bracelet&amp;utm_campaign=grad-pan-grad-bts-2014\" target=\"_blank\">kaplan.com\/unlock<\/a> for a chance to win 10K!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\/2014\/10\/20\/mba-news-for-prospective-students\/\">MBA News for Prospective Students<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/gmat.kaptest.com\">Kaplan GMAT Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From business schools critiquing the (new-ish) GMAT Integrated Reasoning section to a historic first at Rutgers Business School (and\u2014you guessed it!\u2014more business school rankings lists), here\u2019s the latest in MBA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,558,243,940],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-kaplan-blog","category-blog","category-gmat-prep-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}