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Posted by Clear Admit on April 9, 2010, at 11:00 am
Students from seven top business schools will convene today with representatives from more than 30 companies for the first-ever “A Day in the Bay” MBA Interview Forum near San Francisco.
The event is open to first- and second-year students and Executive MBAs from each of the participating schools who are interesting in working on the West Coast. Participating schools include the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Cornell’s Johnson School, the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, Emory’s Goizueta Business School, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, the University of Michigan’s Ross School and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
The all-day event will take place today, April 9th, at the Embassy Suites Hotel near . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 17, 2009, at 2:30 pm
Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina will lead development of the Reaching Out 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) MBA Conference, designed to help connect companies with LGBT MBA students.
Kenan-Flagler’s bid to organize the conference showed “the most thoughtfulness in trying to move the conference forward in terms of content and networking opportunities for students,” said Elizabeth Davis, a member of the organizing committee for the 2008 conference and a second-year MBA student at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.
UNC Kenan-Flagler will work jointly with three other business schools to develop and organize the Reaching Out 2009 Conference, which will take place in October 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. Other organizing schools include Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Duke University’s . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 22, 2009, at 6:00 pm
Several top schools are taking steps to boost female enrollment in their Executive MBA programs, including creating personal networks to recruit women, offering additional scholarship money, and designing more family-friendly program formats, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
Currently, women represent less than 20 percent of most EMBA classes, and at a number of top programs that percentage is closer to 5 percent, the Journal reports. This is compared to 30 percent of the class at top full-time MBA programs and more than 40 percent in part-time programs.
According to the Journal report, obstacles preventing more women from pursuing an EMBA include formats that interfere with raising a family (many EMBA programs require two years of two long weekends . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 1, 2008, at 5:00 pm
As the world reels in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, the MBA admissions community is feeling ripples as well, with admissions events and applicant interviews scheduled there and elsewhere in India canceled or postponed by several schools.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a leading career and education network, has canceled each of the four stops planned this month in India as part of its 2008 World MBA Tour, which brings admissions officers from top MBA programs around the globe face to face with prospective applicants in their native countries. This year’s QS India Tour, which was slated to include fairs in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore, will be rescheduled for sometime in January 2009, according to . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 25, 2008, at 4:15 pm
Earlier this month, Emory’s Goizueta Business School named J. B. Kurish to serve as the associate dean of its full-time MBA program. Kurish, a finance professor, was selected for the role after a comprehensive national search.
“We wanted the best, and we weren’t going to settle for anything less,” said Larry Benveniste, dean of Goizueta Business School, of the appointment. “The committee interviewed four finalists, and the person encompassing all of the qualities we wanted was our own J.B. Kurish,” he continued.
Goizueta engaged executive search firm Egon Zehnder to conduct a national search. Tom Key, a Goizueta alumnus, served as principal on the search committee, which was made up of current and former students, faculty and staff. Among the qualifications . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 6, 2008, at 12:30 pm
The faculty at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School today announced that it has approved major changes to the school’s full-time MBA curriculum. The changes – which include a greater emphasis on practical problem solving and decision analysis, more freedom to choose electives in the first year, and better integration of course material, career planning and leadership development – will be implemented beginning with next fall’s entering class.
Goizueta’s planned changes to its curriculum, like those of Yale, Columbia and other schools that also have restructured their cores recently, are designed to respond to the changing landscape of business, in which globalization, an accelerated pace of change and an increased focus on data-driven decision-making are causing corporations to demand more from their MBAs earlier in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on November 1, 2007, at 3:26 pm
For our readers with an interest in executive education, we wanted to point out that BusinessWeek Online is poised to announce its bi-annual ranking of global EMBA programs. Though the main ranking page still points to the 2005 addition, the site has just published a slideshow featuring the top 25 schools. We’ll post again with some commentary once the feature is made more official, but in the meantime, here’s a preview of this year’s top-ranked programs:
1. Northwestern (Kellogg)
2. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
3. University of Chicago
4. University of Michigan
5. USC (Marshall)
6. Columbia Business School
7. Emory (Goizueta)
8. UCLA (Anderson)
9. Duke (Fuqua – global)
10. UNC (Kenan Flagler)
11. Southern Methodist University (Cox)
12. Georgetown (McDonough)
13. Cornell (Johnson)
14. Ohio State (Fisher)
15. Instituto . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 30, 2007, at 11:14 am
Earlier today, U.S. News & World Report released its 2008 ranking of the top full-time U.S. MBA programs. Because this particular ranking relies heavily on statistics like GMAT averages, GPAs, starting salaries and peer assessments, there’s generally less variation year-to-year than in rankings based on student and recruiter opinion (the dominant metrics in several other prominent rankings). There are, however, a few interesting changes to note when comparing the list to last year’s ranking.
First, let’s take a look at this year’s top-ranking schools:
1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
5. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
5. University of Chicago
7. Dartmouth College (Tuck)
8. University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
9. Columbia University
10. New York University (Stern)
11. University of . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 9, 2007, at 11:48 am
BusinessWeek‘s second annual Undergraduate Business Programs Rankings came out last night and while many of the schools on the list are familiar names, there are several schools new to the top 50 and some significant shifts within the top 20.
Wharton and the University of Virginia’s McIntire School held on to the number one and two spots, respectively, but the number three spot saw some dramatic shifting – UC-Berkeley’s Haas School skyrocketed from number 12 to number 3 in just a year. BusinessWeek‘s article explaining the rankings says that the key to Berkeley’s rise was a significant increase in recruiter satisfaction – last year the school ranked 41st in this category and this year their rating . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on September 20, 2006, at 4:18 am
As many of our readers know, the Wall Street Journal released their business school rankings online late yesterday. The Journal’s ranking of the national (US) MBA programs relies on feedback from corporate recruiters at key firms in order to rate the b-schools. More specifically, the results are based on the following criteria:
1. Recruiter feedback on each school (for 21 different attributes)
2. Recruiter plans to hire graduates from the schools in the future
3. Recent hiring patterns of corporate recruiters
While traditionally less popular than the Business Week or US News MBA rankings, the Journal has been gaining ground with increased fanfare surrounding their rankings each year. Their related hard-copy publication, WSJ Guide to the Top Business Schools, helps in this effort. In . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 7, 2006, at 1:26 pm
Emory University’s Goizueta Business School has come out with its application deadlines and essay questions for the coming admissions season. Applicants should note that the school offers both one- and two-year full-time programs, and that the admissions schedule is on a slightly shorter timeline for the former.
Deadlines
Round One
Application Deadline: November 1, 2006
Admissions Decision by: January 1, 2007
Round Two (final deadline for international applicants)
Application Deadline: December 16, 2006
Admissions Decision by: March 1, 2007
Round Three (final deadline for scholarship consideration and applicants to the one-year MBA program)
Application Deadline: February 1, 2007
Admissions Decision by: April 1, 2007
Round Four
Application Deadline: March 1, 2007
Admissions Decision by: May 1, 2007
Essays
1. List one of your most significant professional or organizational accomplishments. Describe your precise role in this . . . → Continue Reading
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