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).
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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.
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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
University to offer Arabic MBA course
University in Edinburgh has become the first in Europe to offer an MBA in Arabic.
Arab students will be able to sign up to study at a distance for the business courses in their own language.
The Edinburgh Business School announced the project at a reception in Cairo on Saturday.
It is hoped the course will improve links between the university and the Arab business world.
A university spokeswoman said: The Arabic MBA will raise the profile of Heriot-Watt University and the Edinburgh Business School among businesses in the Arabic-speaking world and will create a
Davangere, Karnataka, Sep 12 : Bangalore-based Gupta College of Management and Technology would offer post graduate and doctoral degrees in Business Management
Announcing the tie up Gupta College of management and technology Director Indira Gupta told media persons here today that the college would run the Doctor of Business Administration, Executive MBA and regular MBA programmes offered by the IAU.
She said that the degrees offered by the IAU were accepted world wide and it was the first US university to offer doctor of business administration in India.
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FSC, MBA teaming up to offer Spring Training program
Fitchburg State College head baseball coach Pete Egbert has been counting down the days until the Falcons can officially start practicing.
Well, baseballs will be getting tossed around very shortly inside Fitchburg State Colleges Recreation Center as FSC will be teaming up with the Midwest Baseball Academy (MBA) to offer a Spring Training program from Jan. 21 to Feb. 25.
MBA was recommended to me by a friend, said Egbert. They take care of all of the gritty work; advertising, insurance, registration, etc. We get to do the fun part, which is
Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta has sent provisional offer letters of admissions to nine successful candidates belonging to the other backward classes (OBC) category as per the earlier directive of the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD).
An official spokesman of IIM-C said admissions for the 2008-10 batch were being finalised and the provisional letters of offer were being sent. However, this would be subject to the directive from the MHRD expected any day now. This directive is expected to take note of the Supreme Court ruling on the issue.
Against 300 students admitted last year, about 318 are expected to make
Kozhikode: students at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) have been inundated with offers of lucrative employment this year. Abhilash Vijay Nair, offer wages higher so far in a Business School in the region: Buy. 16.67 lakhs per annum. Abhilash whose parents belong to Thiruvananthapuram, offering a financial services provider.
The offers, some of whom were students of this year, are attractive. On an average, each student has no less than 3.18 Tender (423 offers for 133 students).
Thus, more than 34 students have an annual salary of over RS. 10 lakhs each. Foreigners, offers further gr. 30.38 lakhs per annum.