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. The attendance at this years Convocation reflects the extraordinary connection that our grads have to the program, to their fellow grads, to their professors, and to Athabasca University.
Moses Abowga, MBA and head of Information Technology at the Commercial Bank of Africa in Nairobi Kenya, is one of the graduates making the journey to Athabasca. The way the degree is structured makes you feel like you are in a class with your colleagues, despite being hundreds of miles away. I almost felt like I knew people whom I had not met - the online degree was great! This will be Moses second trip to Alberta; in October of 2004, he attended a residential elective program in Calgary and experienced snow for the first time.
Also traveling to Athabasca is Rob Drew, MBA and Operations Manager for Terex Utilities in South Dakota. Partially as a result of the AU MBA, I relocated to the United States as a consultant, later Plant Manager and currently, Operatio ns Manager in South Dakota for an $8 billion US global manufacturer, says Rob. AU offered the flexibility required for my work schedule and travel. I traveled extensively during my studies and even worked on one of my courses while in Milan, Italy.
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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
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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Santa Clara University's Part-Time MBA Program Named No. 14 by U.S. News
The part-time MBA program at Santa Clara Universitys Leavey School of Business is ranked No. 14 among the top MBA part-time programs in the country, and the programs graduates command top salaries nationally, according to U.S. News & World Report magazines annual Americas Best Graduate Schools issue that was released today.
Graduates of the 2006 part-time MBA program averaged $100,466 in base salary offers, making the program sixth in the nation among highest paid new graduates. Santa Clara University has been listed in the top 20 MBA programs
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
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
Distance-Learning Program To Have Its First Out-Of-State Classroom
After 36 years of offering business degrees via distance learning in South Carolina, USCs professional Master of Business Administration program is blazing new ground across the state line.
The universitys Moore School of Business MBA program for working professionals will open a distance-learning site in Charlotte this fall, the first out-of-state classroom for the program that began in 1970.
School officials say the programs longevity coupled with U.S. News & World Reports ranking the Moore School of Business as No. 2 in the international business specialty make the program a boon for Charlotte-area professionals.
Professional MBA
The masters in business administration program at Clemson University has been listed in Princeton Reviews Best 290 Business Schools.
The universitys MBA program has a two-page profile in the guide, which outlines academics, admissions, financial aid, campus life and career information.
Native South Carolinians will have a hard time beating the ratio of value to quality that theyll find at Clemson University, according to a story by Princeton Review editors. Palmetto State residents can earn a highly regarded business degree for a small fraction of what their peers elsewhere in the country spend.
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Students entering Lancaster University Management School in October 2007 can look forward to joining a university showing many signs of robust financial health and soundness, and benefiting students in a number of ways.
The Universitys financial health was confirmed in June 2007 when Standard & Poors raised its credit rating from A- to A. Lancaster is one of only a few UK universities to have a public credit rating. The new rating reflects its reputation for teaching and research, consistent overall student demand, and strong financial performance relative to its peers.
Other indicators of Lancaster Universitys growing success are:
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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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Centre for Distance Education MBA Programme : 2002-2003
Date for issue of applications from : June 3, 2002 to July 5, 2002 / Entrance Test : July 21, 2002
Application form and prospectus can be had from : The Director
Centre for Distance Education, Bharathidasan University : Tiruchirappalli-620 024
on request enclosing a crossed DD for Rs.200/- (dated only after the date of this notification)
from any nationalised bank, drawn in favour of Centre for Distance Education, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
Source : The Hindu (Chennai) May 31, 2002
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
Directorate of Distance Education : Admission to MBA Degree Course - 2001-2002 (Duration 3 years)
Last date for receipt of filed in applications : July 30, 2001
Application form and prospectus can be had from : The Director - Directorate of Distance Education
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar-608 002
by post on requisition along with a DD drawn in favour of the Director, D.D.E for Rs.280/-and Rs.250/- in person
Important Dates
Date of issue of application form : May 7, 2001 / Last Date for issue of application form : July 23, 2001
Source : The Hindu (Chennai) May 27, 2001, and July 15, 2001 Hindustan Times.
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
Directorate of Distance Education : Admission to MBA Degree 2002-2003 (Duration : 3 Years)
Last date for receipt of filled in applications : July 24, 2002
Cost of application form : Rs.250/- in person, by post Rs.280/- and outstation DD Rs.300/-.
Application form and prospectus can be had from the Director, Directorate of Distance Education
Annamalai University : Annamalainagar-608 002
by post on requisition along with a DD drawn in favour of the Director, D.D.E. for Rs.280/-.
Important Dates
Last date for issue of application form : July 2, 2002 / Date of issue of application form : April 26, 2002
Source : The Hindu (Chennai) April 21,