Right on the heels of one controversial survey comes another: The Forbes 2003 MBA Rankings. Where the WSJ survey relies exclusively on recruiters, Forbes focuses exclusively on return on investment (ROI). Given this emphasis, the results in this survey often favor schools in urban locations where the cost of living (and hence salaries) are high. In addition, the ROI focus offers some bias towards the speedy one-year MBA programs. Top 10 Global Rankings: (1) Harvard, (2) INSEAD, (3) Columbia, (4) Chicago, (5) Dartmouth, (6) Yale, (7) IMD, (8) Wharton, (9) Stanford, . . . → Continue Reading
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The Wall Street Journal has just published its rankings of the top MBA programs. Despite the controversial reputation of these rankings, it’s always interesting to see how the schools stack up in a recruiter-driven survey. Pick up today’s Journal for details, but here is a glance at the top 5: (1) Wharton, (2) Dartmouth, (3) Michigan, (4) Kellogg and (5) U. Chicago. HBS was ranked 8th and Stanford moved up from 39th . . . → Continue Reading When working on the extracurricular activities section of your MBA application, keep the following in mind: a) It is better to excel at a few hobbies than dabble in many hobbies. Thus you should only highlight the most interesting hobbies. b) It is best to show active involvement in a hobby over time, including the present time. It can be a mistake to highlight college activities that you have not continued (unless you can be very convincing about picking them up again during the MBA program). c) It is best to highlight your involvement in group oriented activities rather than solitary activities. Business students are an outgoing bunch, so the admissions committee wants to make sure that you can be sociable with the other . . . → Continue Reading |
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