With the unprecedented reality of a worldwide pandemic, it is reasonable to be concerned about the MBA admissions process. Universities have emptied out their campuses, and both students and teachers are rapidly trying to adjust to remote learning and a host of other modifications in traditional education. Additionally, job prospects are dwindling as the economy…
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U.S. News Announces 2021 Ranking of Best MBA Programs
U.S. News just released its 2021 ranking of full-time and part-time MBA programs. The rankings are based on expert opinions about the quality of each program and statistical indicators that calculate the quality of a program’s faculty, research, and students. The reputation surveys were sent to academics and professionals in fall 2019 and early 2020….
Top MBA Programs Get STEM-Certified to Attract Int’l Students
Here’s a question for all MBA applicants: what do you do if the product you are selling suddenly becomes significantly less appealing to your international markets? Evolving conditions have made your customers doubt your product is worth as much as you are charging, and fewer potential customers are taking the risk on your product. The…
Poets & Quants Announces 2019-2020 MBA Rankings
Poets & Quants just released its 2019-2020 rankings of the top 100 U.S. MBA programs. There were some minor changes in the top 10 – most prominently is Stanford GSB climbing two spots, passing Harvard Business School and UPenn Wharton, to claim the #1 position. It’s the second time in 10 years that Stanford has claimed the…
Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs
Poets & Quants has just released their inaugural rankings for the top MBA programs for entrepreneurs, and Washington University’s Olin Business School tops the list. 20.7% of its graduates from 2016-2018 launched companies within three months of graduation, and has a whopping $1 million in annual funding available for student entrepreneurs. By comparison, the second…
AIGAC 2019 MBA Applicant Survey Results Released
AIGAC (the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants) recently released their 2019 MBA Applicant Survey, which substantiates the idea that today’s applicants continue to consider human interaction to be a competitive advantage. More and more, applicants see the importance of talking to current MBA students when selecting schools and making decisions. Current applicants continue to…
Times Higher Education (THE) Unveils Its Long-Awaited Best Global MBA Programs
Times Higher Education (THE) in partnership with the Wall Street Journal recently released its analyzed reams of data about graduate management education and produced a ranking of “high-achieving global MBA programs.” The study ranked the programs in 20 separate performance indicators, leading to an aggregate score indicating the strength of each program and school. These…
How This Forté Fellow is Blazing Her Trail in Tech
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with business students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top programs. And now, introducing Andrea Caralis… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? Andrea: I grew up in…
Top MBA Program Average GMAT and GRE Scores [Infographic]
Feel free to grab this code and share the timeline on your blog or web site: <a href=”https://blog.accepted.com/top-mba-program-average-gmat-gre-scores/”> <img alt=”Top MBA Program GMAT and GRE Average Scores from Accepted” src=”https://blog.accepted.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/top_mba_program_average_gmat_scores.png” /></a> Top 10 MBA Program Average GMAT Scores The GMAT is a computer adaptive test that assesses certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal and reading skills….
William G. McGowan Charitable Fund Announces Fellows
The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund recently announced its eighth class of McGowan Fellows. The Chicago-based family foundation recognizes students from top business schools across the U.S. who are dedicated to societal issues and ethical practices. The McGowan Fellows Program, established in 2010, honors the legacy of William G. McGowan, the pioneering entrepreneur who embodied…
CMU Tepper MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
You know how you’re always reading that “all MBA programs are different” but after you’ve spent weeks and even months reading all of their websites, they can start to seem like they are pretty much the same. Well, not Carnegie Mellon Tepper. Tepper continues to march to the beat of its own drummer. CMU is…
Mid-Career, a Peruvian Economist-Engineer is Energized at CMU Tepper
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with an MBA student at CMU Tepper, Daniel Espinoza… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study…
Top Ranked Part-Time MBAs
The U.S. News has released its list of the top-ranked part time MBA programs. Here are the top 10: 1. UC Berkeley (Haas) 2. U Chicago (Booth) 3. Northwestern (Kellogg) 4. NYU (Stern) 5. UCLA (Anderson) 6. U Michigan (Ross) 7 (tie). Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 7 (tie). U Texas- Austin (McCombs) 9. Ohio State (Fisher) 10 (tie). U Minnesota- Twin Cities (Carlson) 10…
Interview with Josh: An Inside Look at the Tepper MBA Family
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a follow up interview with Josh Howatt, a second-year student from CMU Tepper. (We first met Josh last year – you can read our first interview with him here.)…
What’s an MBA Really Worth?
This is the question tackled in a recent Poets & Quants article in which John Byrne presents PayScale data provided exclusively for P&Q. In the analysis, PayScale calculates the estimated median pay and bonuses (not including stock-based compensation, retirement benefits, or non-cash benefits like healthcare) of graduates from the top 50 U.S. MBA programs from…
CMU Tepper 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
The key to admissions success here is to exhibit your keen analytical capabilities through your essays—that and your strong passion for learning and your desire to expand your role as an innovative leader. Get those points across to the adcom members and you could be well on your way to the tech-savvy business education that…
Top 10 B-Schools with the Most Satisfied Graduates
Forbes surveyed 17,000 alumni at 100 schools on their satisfaction regarding the following three areas: their current job, their career preparedness, and their MBA education. 4,600 alumni responded. The following ten schools received the highest combined rates of satisfaction: Stanford GSB UC Berkeley Haas Carnegie Mellon Tepper Michigan State Broad Indiana Kelley Dartmouth Tuck Duke…
Consulting at Top MBA Programs
Entrepreneurship is the sexy post-MBA job, but the reality is that less than 5% of grads from top MBA programs start a business at graduation. Per GMAC’s just released Prospective Students Survey Report, 34% of all graduate business students seek consulting positions after they earn their degree. My suspicion is that the figure is even…
Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs
B-schools are always touting their entrepreneurial offerings, programs, and placement, so when we examined the employment reports of U.S. News’ top 25 business schools to see which schools send the most graduates into entrepreneurship, we were surprised to find that only thirteen programs provide this information in their employment reports. Below you’ll find the results –…
Top 20 MBA Programs in 2013
Here are the 20 best MBA programs in the U.S. for 2013 according to Forbes: SCHOOL AND RANK PRE-MBA SALARY 2012 SALARY 1. Stanford GSB $80,000 $221,000 2. Chicago Booth $76,000 $200,000 3. Harvard Business School $80,000 $205,000 4. UPenn Wharton $80,000 $205,000 5. Northwestern Kellogg $73,000 $176,000 6. Dartmouth Tuck $72,000…
