{"id":8734,"date":"2011-09-15T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:03:05","slug":"the-economist%e2%80%99s-mba-fairs-what-can-you-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/the-economist%e2%80%99s-mba-fairs-what-can-you-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist\u2019s MBA Fairs: What Can You Expect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist\u2019s Which MBA? MBA Fair held online on September 7th and 8th provided inside access to admissions officers from business schools all over the United States and the world, including Canada, the UK, Australia and Singapore. Webinars addressed how application decisions are made, provided application tips and discussed how non-US students could maximize the value of an MBA from a US institution. Chat sessions covered financial aid, grants, GMAT preparation and career resources. <\/p>\n<p>Admissions officers, professors, students and alumni were available to answer questions and address the concerns of MBA candidates. Several organizations offered free downloads such as career guides, GMAT tips, scholarship information and links to resources. Anyone who visited five or more exhibitor booths was entered into a free draw for an iPad 2.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors found \u201ca good amount of information regarding MBA admissions, courses and career prospects\u201d and wrote \u201cthis is an amazing event\u201d noting that they were \u201clooking forward to the next online fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next online MBA fair focuses on Executive MBA programs, for professionals with over 5 years of experience considering an Executive MBA structure. Participating universities are located throughout the US, the UK, Sweden and France.  <a href=\"https:\/\/registerembafair.whichmba.com\/?source=gmatclub\">Sign up free<\/a> for The Economist\u2019s Which MBA? Executive MBA Fair, online on September 21st and 22nd.  <\/p>\n<p>Stay informed about online fairs from The Economist by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/pages\/Online-Fairs-The-Economist\/173021752729104\">liking us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist\u2019s Which MBA? MBA Fair held online on September 7th and 8th provided inside access to admissions officers from business schools all over the United States and the world,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734","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\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8736,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions\/8736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}