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Top MBA Programs for Consulting Careers: Eight Schools with Strong Placement

Breaking into consulting after earning an MBA remains one of the most accessible and rewarding career pivots. Top firms such as McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, and BCG actively recruit from leading business schools worldwide, knowing that premier MBA programs attract diverse talent with strong analytical, strategic, and leadership skills. Having worked as a …

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MIT Sloan MBA Essay Tips and Deadlines [2025-2026], Class Profile

According to its website, MIT Sloan is looking for individuals from all around the world, from a broad array of academic backgrounds, who value dignity and respect and who demonstrate the following: To uncover these attributes, the MIT Sloan MBA application continues to include the school’s signature “cover letter” essay and resume requirements. It also …

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U.S. News & World Report 2025 MBA Rankings [Full-Time & Part-Time]

As we have come to expect with the U.S. News & World Report MBA rankings, movement is the name of the game. The Wharton School holds the top spot this year, while the Stanford GSB shifts down to tie with Northwestern Kellogg at #2. Chicago Booth also moves down one spot, to the #4 place, …

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Deferred MBA Programs and Other Options for MBA Hopefuls with No Work Experience

For many business degree hopefuls, the MBA remains the gold standard of graduate management education, and not without reason – an MBA can be the start of a new chapter in your life. Professionally, it can help you accelerate your career or make a career pivot. Academically, it can help fill gaps in hard and …

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M7 MBA Programs: Everything You Need to Know in 2025

M7 MBA Programs: Everything You Need to Know in 2025 The M7 business schools represent seven distinct, vivid cultures – each with its own history, values, characteristics, opportunities, and challenges. Of course, there are many commonalities among the M7 schools, as well: all are highly competitive, offer robust academic resources, are supported by committed and …

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Mastering MIT Sloan MBA Admissions: Insights and Tips [Episode 596]

Show Summary Dawna Levenson, Assistant Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, provides a thorough examination into the MIT Sloan School of Management’s full-time MBA program, which is mission-driven, focused on identifying and solving the world’s biggest and most complex problems. The program offers flexibility with a one-semester core and three semesters of electives, allowing …

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Admissions Directors Reveal the Most Common Mistakes Applicants Make [Episode 538]

Episode 538 MBA Bloopers

[powerpress] There is tons of advice on Accepted.com and on previous episodes of Admissions Straight Talk, about what you should do when you’re applying to top MBA programs. But what about common mistakes? What about the things that you shouldn’t be doing? What are the errors that applicants like you all too frequently make on …

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Top STEM MBA Programs: A Comprehensive List and Overview of STEM-OPT Eligible B-Schools

Top MBA Programs get STEM Certified to Attract International Students

U.S. STEM MBA Programs: An Overview STEM certification programs have proven application bonanzas for top business schools. STEM certification may have begun pre-pandemic as a way to alleviate uncertainty in the visa process, but the programs have proven to be a robust inducement for MBA applicants, particularly from foreign countries. According to Poets & Quants, …

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How to Get Accepted to MIT Sloan MBA [Episode 498]

How to Get Accepted to MIT Sloan MBA_Dawna Levenson_Nov 2022

[powerpress] Discover all you need to know about MIT Sloan’s MBA program [Show Summary] MIT Sloan is one of the magic M7 MBA programs, and its Assistant Dean, Dawna Levenson, shares everything applicants aiming for acceptance should know.  Interview with Dawna Levenson, Assistant Dean at MIT Sloan School of Management [Show Notes] Welcome to the …

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Class of 2022 MBAs Earn Bullish Starting Salaries

Class of 2022 MBAs Earn Bullish Starting Salaries

Distance learning and unstable market conditions due to the Covid pandemic have not hurt the fortunes of MBA grads from top programs. The 2022 employment reports released in recent weeks from top schools, including NYU Stern School of Business, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, MIT Sloan, Harvard, and …

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MBA Programs Seek Recently Laid Off Tech Workers

MBA Programs Seek Recently Laid Off Tech Workers

If you are a recently laid off and otherwise competitive applicant, MBA programs want YOU! Are you a tech worker who just got laid off from Meta, Twitter, Facebook, Stripe, or a similar company? Were you thinking of getting an MBA before and/or since the layoff? Well, what started as a trickle with Northwestern University–Kellogg …

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