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Boosting female enrollment in M.B.A. programs has proved to be one of the most stubborn challenges facing business schools. The percentage of women has held fairly steady for many years -- in the 25% to 35% range at most schools. That glass ceiling troubles Elissa Ellis-Sangster, executive director of the Forté Foundation in Austin, Texas, an organization of companies and schools dedicated to increasing the number of women in M.B.A. programs and the business world. Earlier this month, she talked with M.B.A. Track columnist Ron Alsop about obstacles schools face in attracting more women and some strategies to try to

Kristopher T. Sullivan has been promoted to assistant dean of the graduate school at Bryant University. In his new role, he will develop enrollment strategies for the M.S. in taxation and new master of professional accountancy programs, and develop specialized MBA programs for corporate clients. Sullivan joined Bryant in 1998 as director of graduate studies; he also teaches marketing, part-time. He earned his a B.A. and MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. PBN: What are your priorities in enrollment? More : pbn.com

I am not surprised that the University of Houston is having enrollment problems, because it is not keeping up with the times. The world of higher education has changed dramatically over the last few years with the proliferation of online colleges and universities. As the Chronicle's July 16 article ["UH up against enrollment decline"] pointed out, there is stiff competition for MBA and other program students in the Houston area. I am in a doctorate program at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and for me, it was easier to attend Nova than UH. UH had no DBA or Ph.D.

Pre-enrollees considering an online degree often wonder where to turn to for more information about the schools and degree programs they're considering. Finding answers to these kinds of questions is easy. The nation's top-ranked online universities all offer prospective students and full-time enrollees easy online access to counselors and student portals that make finding pre-enrollment degree and course info a virtual cinch. The University of Phoenix Online, the nation's largest online university and the home to one of the country's most popular MBA programs, is an excellent example of how best to answer a wide range of student and pre-enrollment

Two separate entities back the assertion that enrollment in online degree programming continues its upward trend. The director of marketing for eLearningYellowPages.com, Carrie Sommers, states: According to statistics, the number of students studying for degrees online has increased dramatically over the past several years. In addition, a survey by the Sloan Consortium in 2005 reveals the changing educational landscape. According to the survey, sixty-three percent of schools offering undergraduate face-to-face courses now also offer undergraduate courses online. At the graduate level, forty-four percent of schools with Masters programs now also offer them online. In conducting its study, the Sloan Consortium

UW Executive Education again rated tops in world Open-enrollment executive education programs at the UW-Madison School of Business have been rated best in the world for the second straight year by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Wisconsin scored 4.3 on a 5-point scale, with three schools tied for second at 4.2 - IESE School of Business in Barcelona, Spain; Washington University in St. Louis (Olin); and York University (Schulich). The rankings came from an international survey of more than 200 senior executives who attended executive education programs. They rated programs on factors including course content, impact, faculty, amenities, fellow participants, post-course support and value

The scandal is affecting everyone at West Virginia Univerity from students, to faculty, to alumni. With more calls for President Mike Garrison's resignation coming in on Thursday such as a full page advertisment running in The Dominion Post. The College of Business and Economics has been doing some advertising of its own, with the purpose of recruiting a successful new class and moving the school forward. Elizabeth Vitullo is the Associate Director of the Executive MBA program at West Virginia University. While the ads say they are still accepting applications, she says enrollment is already up. "Our inquiries have been up the last couple of

Eligibility: Any degree. Admissions are based on the academic performance of the previous years, if required students will be called to attend group discussions and interview at Oooty / Major centers. For prospectus and enrollment form sent a crossed DD for Rs.250/- favouring Merit International Education Foundation payable at Coimbatore, addressed to: 22, Havelock Road, Ooty-643 001 Source : The Hindu (Chennai) March 27, 2006

Progress Report for 2006 In 2006 Penn State Beaver saw a 13% increase in enrollment bringing the campus to a total of 730 undergraduates and 120 graduate students in the masters of education program. In addition, almost 1,900 students attended non-credit classes through the Office of Continuing Education. The campus gained complete wireless access and administrators announced the addition of mens soccer and womens basketball for fall 2007. The Office of Continuing Education (CE) increased programming and outreach by offering new courses and programs tailored to meet the specific education and management training needs of local and regional businesses and corporations, large

You don't have to leave your house to go back to school. But you will have to study beforehand if you want to make sure your Web- based education is on the up and up. An estimated three million people this fall will go online to take a college class. Since 2000, GetEducated.com says enrollment in Internet-based higher- education coursework has grown at an average 35% yearly clip. Along the way, a more mature and stable market for online education is developing, says Vicky Phillips, chief education analyst at GetEducated.com, which operates a consumer-oriented Web site to educate prospective online

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