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Kaplan U. to offer new MBA
Kaplan University, the Fort Lauderdale-based online higher-learning institution, is teaming up with Newsweek to offer a masters of business administration.
The Kaplan University/Newsweek MBA will use breaking business news to illuminate issues and theories used in traditional MBA course work. Students will be able to talk with the magazines reporters and editors to get insights on news events.
Kaplan Inc., Kaplan Universitys parent, and Newsweek are subsidiaries of The Washington Post Co. (WPO).
Source : centredaily.com
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New higher education opportunities in the UK will be opened up to many thousands of potential students following plans jointly unveiled today by Kaplan, a global provider of education and training, and the University of Essex to provide a wholly online Foundation degree course.
The course will offer multiple start dates throughout the year with a continuous 52-week academic calendar, and will allow students to study wherever they have access to the Internet. Students without the time or opportunity to engage in a full-time Foundation course will now be able to pursue a higher-education qualification focused on helping them develop
Attend an educational evening highlighting GMAT test preparation and UST MBA programs. A free Kaplan and UST MBA programs forum will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Schulze Hall auditorium, Minneapolis campus.
A panel discussion will include a question-and-answer session with administrators, faculty, admissions professionals, students and alumni from the Full-time and Evening UST MBA programs. Get valuable insight on the GMAT exam and prep methods from a Kaplan Test Preparation representative.
This is an opportunity to network with business professionals. Door prizes, including a Kaplan GMAT preparation course ($1,400 value) will be awarded.
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Enrollment in online courses through Kaplan University has surpassed 27,000 students, making it the largest university in Iowa.
While online education appeals to men and women, nearly three-quarters of Kaplan students are women, most in their 30s, pursuing associates, bachelors and masters degrees, or career-oriented certificates.
In its 2006 Making the Grade report, online education advocacy organization Sloan Consortium, estimated that nearly 3.2 million students took at least one online course during the 2005 fall term compared with 2.3 million the previous year.
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It's not a UNC class, and he won't be graded. The junior chemistry major is in an MCAT prep course at the Chapel Hill Kaplan Center.
"It's more independent work than I initially expected," Spencer said. "You put in maybe 20 hours a week. It's pretty rigorous."
The five-month class costs $1,849 and meets for three hours on Sundays.
Spencer, who is planning to take the MCAT this spring, sits in a room with about 25 other students, bent over their thick textbooks as they listen closely to instructor Dan Verges.
A first-year medical student at UNC School of Medicine, Verges said he took
Free Practice Tests on Campus Feb. 17
Kaplan Test Prep and UA Admissions, in conjunction with ASG, will offer free GRE, GMAT, MCAT, LSAT, DAT, PCAT and TOEFL practice tests Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Universitys Mechanical Engineering Building. Participants will discuss the role these exams play in the graduate school admissions process and will receive customized score reports. Space is limited, and pre-registration is preferred.
Source : dailyheadlines.uark.edu
Workshop for students planning to take the GMAT
The Graduate and Executive Programs of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics is sponsoring a GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) practice test and strategy workshop beginning at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 27, in 125 Lerner Hall.
Students will take a GMAT practice test to diagnose skills from 5:30-8 p.m., break for dinner and then participate in the workshop for the remainder of the evening. The program will be presented by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
Cost is $20, payable by check to University of Delaware, and includes dinner and materials.
Source : udel.edu
The sponsored secondary offer of Indias second largest software exporter Infosys Technologies was oversubscribed eight times on Thursday.
Indian share holders tendered over 52.4 million shares to convert their stock to American Depository Receipts (ADR) at an offer price of USD 67 per ADR with the total offer valued over USD one billion.
The secondary offer got a huge response from investors in the US who offered to buy shares eight times more than was on offer and the acceptance ratio was 8.3 shares for every 100 shares tendered.
The NASDAQ-listed Infosyss issue witnessed three times demand from Japanese investors.
If you are an undergraduate and working, you can improve your career and living by pursuing an online bachelor degree course. It may not be possible for you to go for study for a college degree, but you can do an online one without disturbing your present schedule of work and staying where you are now. What you need is a computer and an internet connection at your home. Wherever you are – in any corner of the United States – you can pursue an online bachelor degree course.
An online bachelor degree is also affordable. Studying in a college
The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) has pipped all other IIMs this year by bagging the highest domestic offer across all IIMs during lateral placements.
The institute beat its more illustrious counterpart, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to grab the top spot in the highest domestic salary offered during laterals.
The highest offer at Rs 16.2 lakh, made by a software major to an IIM-C grad, betters the offer made by Genpact to an IIM-A student at Rs 15.5 lakh. It is also the best-ever domestic offer in laterals.
In addition, international firms such as Johnson Electric, Microsoft, Mittal Steel
US based Mercy College to offer one year MBA through its India campus in Mumbai
US-based Mercy College is planning to start its one-year MBA programme in India from the next academic session.
The college will offer its MBA courses through its India campus in Mumbai. The college has tied up with Morningside School of Management to offer a 12-week (18 credits) of the executive-style first year curriculum in the Indian campus.
With successful completion of the 12 week of study in India, the students will be granted advanced placement in Mercys MBA programme
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