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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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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Yoga Makes Headway in Business Schools

Walk through the halls of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business during the school year, and along with students cramming facts for macroeconomics and operating strategy you may encounter some students stretching their bodies and doing something really unusual for business school students: relaxing.
They’re members of Chicago’s yoga club, a student group founded [...]

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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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MBA program coming to town

A unique opportunity for higher education aiming to prepare future leaders of the community is coming to Pickaway County this fall.
Berger Hospital is teaming up with Ohio University in Athens to offer OU’s professional Master of Business Administration in Circleville.
“We’re constantly meeting to talk about what we might do to expand educational opportunities for the [...]

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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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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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IIM-B weighing options to make good the loss.

NOW that the IIMs have more or less ruled out a legal recourse against the HRD Ministry’s directive to impose a fee cut in their PGP (Post-Graduate Programmes) courses, the country’s premier business schools are busy considering various options to make up for this revenue loss.
“One of the options before us is to increase the [...]

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Knowledge: India’s greatest asset.

An extension of the knowledge base, more than anything else, strength of will of the Indian economy in the 21 century, as it is a conscious move to a central pillar of the knowledge of the nation’s Development planning.
This was the message that resonate in every conversation in recent weeks with companies and researchers throughout [...]

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