{"id":5028,"date":"2010-11-10T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2010-11-10T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T20:08:04","slug":"u-s-business-schools-increase-recruitment-effort-for-international-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/u-s-business-schools-increase-recruitment-effort-for-international-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Business Schools Increase Recruitment Efforts for International Applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article last week in the Wall Street Journal wrote about a trend<\/a> that we have seen unfold over the past year or so: After seeing years of seemingly unstoppable growth in the number of overseas applicants, many U.S. business schools now see increasing competition coming from MBA programs in other countries. For many U.S. schools \u2014 especially those outside of the top five or top ten \u2014 having a thriving contingent of international students is a sign of the school\u2019s credibility worldwide. To maintain their reputations, these schools are working harder than ever to attract a healthy amount of international students.<\/p>\n

Why the drop in international enrollment in U.S. schools? The WSJ article names three reasons: the surge in quality and prestige of many schools abroad, the stubbornly soft U.S. job market, and the high cost of earning a degree at an American school. The three have combined to form a perfect storm that has stopped what once seemed like an irresistible wave of international applicants.<\/p>\n

Note that this trend has not hit the Harvards and Whartons as much as lower-ranked schools. The former have brand names that applicants always are eager to associate themselves with. But while an applicant in India may have done anything he could to get into any well-respected American MBA program ten years ago, now he has the Indian School of Business (among others) to consider, plus a job market in India that is at least as promising for a newly minted MBA as it is in the United States.<\/p>\n

In response, many U.S. schools have stepped up their recruiting and marketing efforts to prevent themselves turning into schools that only have regional appeal. The article cites the efforts of Vanderbilt (Owen) and U. of Washington (Foster) \u2014 two great schools that just don\u2019t have the worldwide brand recognition that Harvard does \u2014 to send more administrators, students, and alumni abroad to spread the gospel about their programs. It even mentions the efforts of some higher-ranked schools, such as Ross, to step up recruiting in regions where the school has rarely recruited applicants before.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for you? If you are an American applicant aiming for one of these schools, don\u2019t worry that you\u2019re now that much less attractive to admissions officers. Your competition still primarily comes from other American applicants, regardless of how many international applicants there are. If you are overseas and are considering a U.S. school outside of the schools at the very top of the rankings, this could represent a small leg up in what has been an increasingly competitive field over the past decade. If the soft U.S. job market hasn\u2019t scared you away and you can make a compelling case for why Owen or Foster (or any other program) is where you want to be, admissions officers are likely to be a little bit more interested in your application this year.<\/p>\n

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