MBA students with work-experience jump to 89% at IIM-L

One of the most significant trends sweeping the Indian management education domain is the significant importance being attached to prior work-experience of MBA candidates.
Overwhelming percentage of students at IIMs and other top-schools are candidates with some prior work experience.
In the fresh data shared by IIM-L with MBAUniverse.com, a whopping 89% of candidates admitted to the [...]

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MBA students in biz venture

In business, it’s the early bird that rakes in the moolah. Taking cue from the age-old proverb, two MBA students have turned entrepreneurs even before graduating.
H.R. Sampreet and Saurav Dhiman, second-year students of the Vinod Gupta School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, have launched their own company, Enfount Business Solutions. Their [...]

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Coming Soon to a GMAT Near You: More Security

Would-be MBA students getting ready to take the GMAT might be in for a little surprise when they show up at the testing center. In addition to all the usual security measures—including video monitoring and the computer adaptive test itself—test takers will soon be asked to submit to a new one: a biometric device that [...]

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Turner returns from Great Northwest to MBA

A survey of 759 graduating MBAs from 11 top U.S. business schools revealed that a company’s corporate social responsibility performance is a major factor when they select whom to work for, reports BusinessGreen.
The graduates expect to make an annual salary of $103,650 from their first employer, but 97 percent said they would be willing to [...]

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US MBA courses get more expensive for British graduates

A report has suggested that it is likely that British students considering taking MBA courses in the UK will find it increasingly hard to find loans to cover the cost of their post-graduate studies.
According to a report in the Financial Times, the appeal of MBA courses in the US had recently been increasing among British [...]

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B-Schools Tackle Risk Management

Aaron F. Cooper II, a self-described worrywart, never thought his penchant for devising foolproof backup plans could translate into a calling. But that all changed when he signed up for an elective in risk management while at the University of Georgia’s Terry School of Business executive MBA program last fall. “It entails pretty much everything [...]

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MBA training for tech grads

AS A PhD student at Oxford University, Cleo Choong spent most of her waking hours at the lab, researching ways to help heal damaged bones with biodegradable material.
When she returned to Singapore, the bioengineering graduate wanted to market her work, but didn’t know where to start.
‘I was lacking skills in areas like finance and management,’ [...]

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Science, liberal arts students signing on for MBA courses

You don’t have to have an MBA to know the value of basic business skills. Just ask Greg Shaw, 22, and the 54 other recent graduates of the Carolina Business Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
These new biologists, psychologists and arts majors added the business course to their resumes before stepping out into the [...]

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Samford changes schedule of night MBA program

Samford University’s Brock School of Business is changing the schedule of its evening MBA program.
The graduate program - taken often by working professionals - is being revamped into two semesters that are nine weeks each with a 10-week summer semester, the school reported Thursday.
The program used to have five, nine-week terms in a year.
Under the [...]

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Why get work experience before enrolling for MBA

B-Schools are increasingly roping in a number of younger and lesser-experienced MBA aspirants.Ross Geraghty delves deeper into this trend while mentioning that it is still advisable to gain considerable work experience before enrolling for a business programme.
Unlike for most educational courses, for an admission to an MBA course,a minimum of three years of work experience [...]

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