UNCG grads receive their diplomas
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro handed out about 1,000 diplomas Thursday at its December commencement. The ceremony was held at the Greensboro Coliseum.
The head of the schools MBA program delivered the commencement address.
Family and friends packed the coliseum. Many of them said a December ceremony is bonus to the holidays.
Im overwhelmed, said Evette Taylor. My niece, Latisha Tranell Wilkins, is graduating and Im here supporting her. I have my sister, my niece and my nephew here with me. Its overwhelming.
About 500 students who graduated in August were also able to attend the commencement ceremony.
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UNC Greensboro said yesterday that Vidyaranya Gargeya, a professor of information systems and operations management, has been named as the head of the masters of business administration program at the Bryan School of Business and Economics.
Gargeya had been the interim head of the MBA program since 2006. He has been at UNCG for 14 years, receiving honors that include the UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the Bryan school’s Senior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and the Bryan school’s MBA Association Faculty Award.
Gargeya received his doctorate degree in business administration from Georgia State University
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MBA grads united with recruiters
Exec-appointments.com is launching a new service to bring together MBA graduates from leading international business schools and key senior executive recruiters.
MBA-Direct.com will provide a resource for business schools to link their MBA students and alumni, at every stage of their career, to recruiters of MBAs.
Betty Thayer, chief executive of exec-appointments.com, says: Through MBA-Direct, business schools will be able to help past and present students to find the best jobs available. MBA graduates, at any point in their career, will be able to use the service as part of their job search. And recruiters and corporate companies
Close to half of this years 218 MBA grads are traveling to Athabasca tomorrow to receive their degrees in person at Athabasca Universitys Convocation ceremony. The AU MBA Class of 2007 represents every region of Canada, the United States and several other countries including Australia, Germany, Yemen, Switzerland and Kenya. As Dr. Lindsay Redpath, Executive Director of the Centre for Innovative Management, home of Athabasca Universitys online graduate management programs notes, We have a great turnout for Convocation, reflecting the truly international character of AUs MBA program, and its impact on the Canadian and global business communities.
Its not easy to please these MBA grads
A five-figure salary, accommodation, car and other frills are just not enough to hook these management graduates. MNCs queuing up at citys B-schools could do well by considering this: Make the job profile more appealing.
Package is not the only consideration. I can compromise on a few thousands, but the job should be to my liking, said Divjot Gill, a final year MBA student at Punjab College of Technical Education.
At PAU Business Department, a few students, in fact, refused to sit for interviews as they did not fancy the job profiles posted
New MBA grads start at $92,000 per year
Newly minted MBAs are averaging a starting base salary in the United States of more than $92,000, a Virginia-based industry group said Friday.
The Graduate Management Admission Council said that the average new MBA with a job offer in hand will earn $92,360 during their first year of employment, up 4.2 percent from the $88,626 graduates in 2005 received.
Moreover, two-thirds of job offers to MBAs in 2006 come with signing bonuses that average $17,603, up slightly from last year.
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Grads gain the advantage
The lean job market college graduates faced in the first half of the decade is gone, and companies are upping the ante to obtain the best talent.
Stephen Richardson knew what he wanted, waited for it, and got it. The management major from Purdue University in Indiana wasnt tempted to take the first job offer he got last October - something job seekers in a dicier economy might do. He also passed on three other offers.
His patience paid off. After graduating later this month, Mr. Richardson will have his dream job waiting for him.
I knew what I
State to have more MBA, MCA grads
With eight new colleges— offering MBA and MCA programmes—joining the admission process, another 720 seats have been added to the seat matrix this year.
This means, admissions to these courses—which were supposed to be completed by September 4—will go on till September 11. It is even learnt that four more colleges are expecting the nod from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
Following the developments, the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE)—the apex body of higher learning in the state—has been forced to conduct an additional phase of admissions. It will
New hires wait to hear the fate of their jobs with Bear Stearns as financial hiring in general appears shakier
The stunning collapse and fire sale of investment house Bear Stearns (BSC)—a major employer of business graduates—has added another worry to an already shaky hiring outlook for business grads, college officials say. While major career services organizations haven't entirely reversed earlier predictions that the hiring market for 2008 grads is going to be strong, reports of recruiters cutting back on the number of job offers and, in some cases, lower starting salaries are beginning to surface.
Reductions are not just happening
U-Mary to Award 855-Plus Degrees Including First to Online Grads at 47th Commencement
Former Governor, Art Link, and wife, Grace, to receive honorary doctorates.
Bismarck, ND The 856 degrees to be awarded by the University of Mary at its 2007 commencement ceremony include 53 executive, health care, management, and nurse administrator MBAs that will be granted to the first graduates of the universitys online program, as well as more than 411 degrees to be presented to students who studied at one of the growing number of U-Mary adult education sites. The university also will confer the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree on
Brenau University graduates were not the only ones to receive diplomas at Saturdays commencement ceremony.
U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, the commencement speaker, was surprised to be handed a diploma during the afternoon graduation. In addition to the 629 graduate and undergraduate degrees, the university conferred on Deal an honorary doctor of laws degree. A closely guarded secret, it seemed to take the Gainesville Republican by surprise.
This ranks right up there with the best of them, he said afterward. This is my hometown.
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New MBA grads earn more than last year
Corporate America wants graduates whove earned master of business administration degrees and is willing to pay more than last year, say local business schools.
The average starting salary of a 2006 graduate with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business is $94,935, almost 7 percent higher than for the 2005 graduates, Ken Keeley, executive director of the Tepper Schools Career Opportunities Center, said Tuesday.
Across the board, the economy has definitely emerged from the hiring downturn we saw two years ago, Keeley said.
The bad news for those graduate students
2 Year Post Graduate Diplomas : General Management, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources
For details : Contact Institute Office or Study Centres.
For Admission Form and Prospectus : Send a DD of Rs.500/- payable at Mumbai in favour of
S.V.K.M.s NMIMS to the institute or the study centre.
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
V.L. Mehta Road, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai-400 056
Source : Times of India (Mumbai) August 22, 2004
Admissions Open : 2 Year Post Graduate Diplomas : General Management, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources
Last date for admissions to the current batch : June 30, 2004
For details : Contact Institute Office or Study Centres.
For Admission Form and Prospectus : Send a DD of Rs.500/- payable at Mumbai in favour of
S.V.K.M.s NMIMS to the institute or the study centre.
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
V.L. Mehta Road, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai-400 056
Source : Times of India (Mumbai) May 30, 2004
The Convocation of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi for conferring the Degrees/Diplomas on the graduands who have qualified for B.E./B.Pharm/B.Arch/B.Sc./M.E./M.Pharm/MBA/MCA/M.Sc./M.Tech. Degree/Post-graduate Diploma between October 13, 1998 to December 31, 2000 and the candidates for whom the requirements for Ph.D. Degree are completed during the period
November 8, 1998 to January 19, 2001 will be held on Sunday, 25 February, 2001 at 3.00 p.m.
at B.I.T. Mesra, Ranchi.
Applicable Forms are being dispatched to all qualified students at their addresses as per the Institute records. All recipients of the Degrees/Diplomas are cordially invited.
Registrar
Birla Institute of Technology
Mesra-835 215 (Ranchi)
Source : Hindustan Times (New
The convocation of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow has seen 259 students, their diplomas by Dr. JJ Irani, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIM Lucknow and Director of Tata Sons. He, furthermore, the convocation address. He congratulated the students and wished them good luck. Mr. Irani also provides information on how the Indian society, age and the transformation is the name of the game. It has also affected the role of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility for sustainable enterprises.
235 students from 22 Lot 2 and 21 students in the Lot of the Post Graduate Program in Management and 21