Cranfield MBA Scholarship for Sri Lanka

The world renowned Cranfield School of Management in the UK will present a scholarship to any member of the three leading IFAC accountancy bodies in Sri Lanka, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sri Lanka (ICASL) or the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Sri Lanka Branch (CIMA). Full [...]

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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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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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MBA Students Take Care of Business in Budapest

University at Albany-SUNY students in the evening and weekend MBA programs are in Budapest this week as they visit seven companies there and immerse themselves in Hungarian business, history and culture.
The School of Business entourage includes two dozen students, retired Dean Paul Leonard, and several faculty and staff. New School of Business Dean Donald Siegel [...]

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Education fair for MBA aspirants in Delhi

The QS World MBA Tour, the world’s leading series of career and education events, will organize a one-day fair for aspiring MBAs in the capital tomorrow.
The MBA fair will be held at the Hyatt Regency (Ring Road) in New Delhi tomorrow between 2 pm and 6 pm.
More than 30 B-Schools from across the globe including [...]

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Google Is The’Dream Office For MBA Graduates

Google has an innovative and totally off the book working environment, that is catching up with the 21st century youth at an incredible speed. Google promises what many have found missing from the rest of corporate America. Inspite of Google’s nefariously grueling selection process, thousands of MBA graduates appear each year for interviews. For 2007, [...]

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One in Four MBAs Want To Work At Google

You’re getting your MBA, and you’re looking for a job – but where? Goldman Sachs (GS), J.P. Morgan? Not according to the most recent crop of MBA students. They, like everyone else, want to work for Google, according to a survey from market research firm Universum published on Fortune.com.
Of the 5,769 students surveyed, a startling [...]

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Boom time dulls MBA sheen for grads.

If applications for MBAs, until recently the most sought after post-graduation course, have fallen by one-third this year, blame it on the economy. Education experts say the demand for management studies is counter-cyclical-more students want to join the programme when the economy is in a slump and unemployment is on the rise. But when the [...]

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