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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 overcome them.
WSJ: Are there any signs of progress in increasing female enrollment?
Ms. Ellis-Sangster: For a long time, wed see a half percentage or full percentage point increase, but then it would often fall back the next year. Last year, however, we saw a little more uptick at some top-rated M.B.A. programs. Among schools that belong to the Forté Foundation, for example, there was a gain in female enrollment o f nearly two percentage points. This year, I would expect another increase, but its too early to know how much
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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?
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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.
The Princeton Review has named Babson College MBA as one of its Best 290 Business Schools, according to the 2008 edition of the guide book (Random House / Princeton Review, $22.95, October 9). Babson is also among the Top 10 MBA programs for Greatest Opportunity for Women.
The Greatest Opportunity for Women is based on the percent of students who are female, the percent of faculty who are female, and student assessment of: resources for female students, how supportive the culture is of female students, whether the business school offers coursework for women entrepreneurs, and whether case study materials for classes
Management school capping enrollment
The University at Buffalo School of Management is shrinking its incoming class in a bid to improve its place in national rankings and create more demand for higher-quality students.
The incoming fall class in the graduate program will be capped at 100 to 120 full- time students, down from about 150, said David Frasier, assistant dean and director of full-time graduate programs in the school.
The strategy is very clearly to increase the overall quality of the full-time MBA class with an objective of improving our national profile, he said.
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The Centre for Family Managed Business (CFMB) conducted a study on the role of career-orientation of businesswomen in family- managed enterprises. The CFMB is part of the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) of Mumbai.
The study has observed increasing participation by female members of the family in family businesses in the recent past.
Such rise in participation has been attributed to nuclear and small families besides lack of enough number of male members to lead growing businesses. Families continue to trust family members instead of reposing faith in strangers. It has, however, been difficult for female family members to
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
At a time when the spotlight is on PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and HSBC Indias CEO Naina Lal Kidwai for having broken the corporate glass ceiling, B-schools across the country are coming under focus for skewed sex ratios on the campus.
Data obtained shows some of the most renowned management institutions have as few as 10% women students. Even the institutes with the best gender ratios have over 65% male students. Experts feel the gap can be attributed to entrance tests that are heavily biased in favour of engineers, given their emphasis on mathematics rather than people management and study
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
MUMBAI: At a time when the focus is on PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and HSBC India's CEO Naina Lal Kidwai, the fact that companies breaks "glass ceiling", B-schools across the country are priorities the next sex ratio rises to the campus.
Data shows that some of the most prestigious management institutions have more than 10% female students. Similarly, the institutions that have the best rate of sex, more than 65% of male students. Experts feel the difference can be attributed to the test, to the strong "partial" for engineers, because it emphasis on mathematics and not like human beings and management
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
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January 6th, 2009 at 10:01 am
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as i m graduate in philosophy,so in my PI this question can put forward to me that by doing graduation in philosophy,why do i want to do MBA?
please let me know the ans soon………..
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