Archive for the 'Business School' Category

The Spread of Specialized MBA Programs

B-school trends come and go, but one that seems to have legs is the creation of specialized MBA programs, particularly by second-tier schools. The schools find them useful for attracting students and cementing their brand identities at a time when competition among schools for the best students is intense. In recent years, they’ve becoming increasingly [...]

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Business-school test maker seeks Web cheaters

Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.
The exam’s publisher, the Graduate Management Admission Council, is tracking down users of Scoretop.com after winning a lawsuit to shut down the site and seize a computer hard drive [...]

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In India, MBAs remain in demand

While American business school students worry about job offers being yanked and salaries and starting bonuses shrinking, their counterparts at top Indian business schools are having what looks to be their best recruiting year ever, according to a report.
The job placement figures this year at 20 of India’s top management schools - including six Indian [...]

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Santa Clara University’s Part-Time MBA Program Ranked No. 13 in the Nation

The part-time MBA program at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business was ranked No. 13 among the top MBA part-time programs in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report magazine’s annual “America’s Best Graduate Schools” rankings.
Other part time MBA programs in California ranked by U.S. News in the top 15 are: [...]

Haas hosts world’s top MBA programs

For the second time in the event’s 25-year history, UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is hosting the Graduate Business Conference.
The conference, which runs from April 3 to April 5 and was organized by the Graduate Student Forum, brings together student leaders from 40 of the world’s top MBA programs. It features networking events, panel [...]

MBA Forum Heads For St. Petersburg

The global career and education network Quacquarelli Symonds and GreenTown Consulting Group will hold an MBA Forum in St. Petersburg next week. This is the first time that the event is being held in the city, providing an opportunity for MBA candidates to meet the admissions officers of international business schools.
“On Tuesday, 8 April, admissions [...]

USF Lakeland to Begin MBA Cohort

The University of South Florida Lakeland will offer a master of business administration program in the Polk County area.
USF Lakeland will begin a two-year MBA cohort program in the fall. A cohort is a group of students who complete a degree program together, supporting each other and enhancing the growth of each individual through shared [...]

Jobs Movers & Shakers Sector Insights Supplements Trends

Maher Bird Associates has been appointed to handle the AA’s £25m integrated advertising account. The agency beat incumbents Delaney Lund Knox Warren and Rapier to win the business.
The AA kicked off a “root and branch” review of its agency roster last year, as exclusively revealed by Marketing Week (September 27, 2007). The move followed the [...]

University of Phoenix to Teach MBA Curriculum

In a press conference this morning, Robert Dolan, Dean of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business announced the sale of the internationally ranked MBA program for an undisclosed amount to the University of Phoenix (UOP) Online. “Given the recent slip in rankings and the particularly disappointing class of 2008, we decided to cut [...]

MBA programs rank No. 9, 15, 44

U.S. News & World Report listed the Professional MBA program at the Cox School of Business as No. 9 in its recent graduate program rankings. The Executive MBA program ranked No. 15. The full-time MBA program ranked No. 44.
The No. 9 spot makes the PMBA program the highest ranked program in Texas. The No. 44 [...]