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18 May 2015, 00:46
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The Dhirubhai Ambani scholarship essay is " How do you aspire to shape India's Future". Can anyone who has previously written and succeeded, lend some bright ideas/directions? Its 250 words and that's highly constraining. Should I take about my Post MBA goals or Stanford's contribution in the whole scheme of things?(But those are already 2 separate essays!!)...Or is it my wishful thinking that I need to present (How realistic can I sound if I say I want to reduce corruption..All I can think of is take a gun and go on a killing spree of all the corrupt people....)
Please help !!
Please help !!
19 May 2015, 13:52
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UC Berkeley Haas takes the lead with a 43% female student body.[/caption]
Women now make up 60% of university graduates, but most business schools have lagged behind when it comes to gender balance—impacting not just women’s experience of b-school, but the composition of the workforce afterward. A new report from gender consulting firm 20-first looks at the numbers of women MBA students and faculty at top programs, and finds that while there has been some improvement in the last few years, we still have a ways to go before achieving gender balance.
Lesley Symons, one of the authors of the report, points out that this “balance” is not merely an issue of numbers—currently, the curriculum at most b-schools is defined and driven by male faculty, male-dominated case studies, etc. She suggests that a deeper issue of cultural change is at stake, in order to make business education “gender bilingual” and effectively train the next generation of business leaders.
The report found that gender balance among students at top programs is improving (with several top US programs near or over 40% representation for women), while faculty numbers are slower to budge.
Here are some of the report’s findings regarding female MBA students and faculty:
Related Resources:
• Best MBA Programs and How to Choose the Right One
• Leaning in While Pursuing Your MBA: The MBA Mama Story
• Forte Helps Women In Business Thrive: Interview with Elissa Sangster
Accepted.com's experienced admissions consultants can help you create the most impressive application possible with comprehensive packages, or provide targeted assistance from picking perfect programs to designing a dazzling resume, constructing engaging essays, or preparing for intense interviews…and more! Accepted.com has guided thousands of applicants to acceptances at top programs since 1994 – we know what works and what doesn't, so contact us to get started now!
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UC Berkeley Haas takes the lead with a 43% female student body.[/caption]
Women now make up 60% of university graduates, but most business schools have lagged behind when it comes to gender balance—impacting not just women’s experience of b-school, but the composition of the workforce afterward. A new report from gender consulting firm 20-first looks at the numbers of women MBA students and faculty at top programs, and finds that while there has been some improvement in the last few years, we still have a ways to go before achieving gender balance.
Lesley Symons, one of the authors of the report, points out that this “balance” is not merely an issue of numbers—currently, the curriculum at most b-schools is defined and driven by male faculty, male-dominated case studies, etc. She suggests that a deeper issue of cultural change is at stake, in order to make business education “gender bilingual” and effectively train the next generation of business leaders.
The report found that gender balance among students at top programs is improving (with several top US programs near or over 40% representation for women), while faculty numbers are slower to budge.
Here are some of the report’s findings regarding female MBA students and faculty:
Related Resources:
• Best MBA Programs and How to Choose the Right One
• Leaning in While Pursuing Your MBA: The MBA Mama Story
• Forte Helps Women In Business Thrive: Interview with Elissa Sangster
Accepted.com's experienced admissions consultants can help you create the most impressive application possible with comprehensive packages, or provide targeted assistance from picking perfect programs to designing a dazzling resume, constructing engaging essays, or preparing for intense interviews…and more! Accepted.com has guided thousands of applicants to acceptances at top programs since 1994 – we know what works and what doesn't, so contact us to get started now!
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This article originally appeared on blog.accepted.com, the official blog of Accepted.com.
21 May 2015, 22:17
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By Paul Lanzillotti, Amerasia Consulting Group
Today's blog post is going to be the first in a series that covers business school rankings. More specifically, it's Amerasia's attempt at ranking top MBA programs by industry and based on publicly available data. Our motivation for doing this is quite simple - business school rankings differ quite drastically from publication to publication. US News seems to be the most consistent and widely followed. After Businessweek ranked Fuqua at number one, they decided to change their methodology. Whether the two are correlated is up for debate. John Byrne over at "Poets and Quants" covered the change quite extensively here.
Regardless, we've never felt completely comfortable with the rankings because (to our knowledge) the raw data that drives the rankings has never been fully disclosed. Yes, we do know that the methodology (ranking model) has been discussed on relevant websites, but it's a cursory explanation of the process in our opinion. Also our opinion - that the process is still very much a black box. So we decided to start over and see what we could come up with. Most importantly we started with the very numbers that the school's career centers are reporting via their respective employment reporting.
Our opinion is that recruiting (i.e. who's hiring) drives most programs "investment" decisions - in students, faculty, courses, experiential initiatives, alumni outreach, etc. So to know to what a specific MBA program is really all about, you need to see the end result. In other words, what industries are hiring MBA graduates and from what schools?
Now before we get into the numbers, a few words of caution. What we have done is our first attempt at a numerically based ranking and its not perfect. It's based on our interpretation of the numbers put forth by top business schools. Let us explain. Most MBA career centers report employment numbers according to the categories that we use in our rankings. Some schools break "industry" categories into further sub-categories. Other programs - i.e. Michigan Ross - roll up their industry categories under more general headers like "manufacturing". So you could be a "marketing" professional but be within the manufacturing industry. To be forthright, it's a little confusing. (This is why we have decided to exclude Michigan Ross from some categories until we gather a little more insight into their self-reported numbers.)
None-the-less, we have tried to make sense of it all and to do this we did combine some categories in order to get an apples-to-apples comparison across schools. Clear as mud? That being said, we welcome any constructive feedback you may have. Either post your comments below or email us at MBA@amerasiaconsulting.com.
Top MBA Programs in Finance (2015)
AKA THE RANKING OF BUSINESS SCHOOL PROGRAMS BY PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES ENTERING THE FINANCE INDUSTRY IN 2014.
Our first ranking is "Finance" and Chicago Booth comes out on top.
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Top MBA Programs in Finance by Percentage of Graduates Entering the Industry (2015)[/caption]
Source Data:
We compiled this ranking based on information taken directly from the following MBA employment reports.
Haas
https://haas.berkeley.edu/groups/careercenter/reports/14-15ReportSummary.pdf
UCLA Anderson
https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/adm/cmc/2014%20PARKER%20CMC%20Employment%20Report%2002.10.15%20LR.pdf
Stanford GSB
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Stanford%20GSB%20Employment%20Report%202013-14.pdf
MIT Sloan
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/pdf/Class_of_2014-intern_employment_report.pdf
HBS
https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/data-and-statistics/recruitingreport/
https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/data-and-statistics/employment-statistics.html
Wharton
https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/your-career/career-statistics.cfm
Kellogg
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/career_employer/employment_statistics.aspx
Chicago Booth
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/employmentreport/
Columbia
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/recruiters/employmentreport
NYU Stern
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/career/employment-statistics
Tuck
https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/careers/employment-statistics
Yale SOM
https://som.yale.edu/yale-som-connect/recruiting/employment-statistics
Michigan Ross
https://michiganross.umich.edu/our-community/recruiters
Duke Fuqua
https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/mba_recruiting/recruiting_duke/employment_statistics/
Cornell Johnson
https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Career-Management/Employment-Report-for-Two-Year-MBAs
UVA Darden
https://www.darden.virginia.edu/recruiters-companies/hire-an-mba/employment-reports/
