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 in your career or make a career pivot. Academically, it can help fill hard and soft…
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M7 MBA Programs: Everything You Need to Know in 2023
What are the M7 business schools? Talk about diversity! Seven distinct, vivid cultures – each with its own history, values, characteristics, opportunities, and challenges. Of course, there are many commonalities among the M7 schools: all are highly competitive, all feature deep academic resources, all are supported by committed and involved alumni, and all attract top-tier…
Top STEM MBA Programs: A Comprehensive List and Overview of STEM-OPT Eligible B-Schools
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,…
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…
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…
Kellogg EMBA Application Essay Tips and Deadlines [2022 – 2023]
Kellogg’s two required EMBA application essay questions present a paradox: they’re straightforward and complex. Together, they draw out a fully rounded view of you as a person and as a professional, what you’ve done and how you think and perceive the world. To the extent possible, ground your essays in detail and concrete experience, and…
Kellogg MBA Essay Tips and Deadlines [2023 – 2024], Class Profile
Kellogg values individuals; who you are as a person, what you’ve done, and how you will be engaged in the school’s greater community are all very important. Yes, academics and work experience are also key parts of your profile, but the school’s essay prompts seek to elicit more about your personality, your values, and your…
U.S. News MBA Rankings 2023 [Full-Time & Part-Time]
Chicago Booth and Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) share the #1 spotlight in U.S. News’ Best Business Schools of 2023 rankings, released March 29. The metrics for the rankings are based on career placement success, student excellence and qualitative assessments by experts. MBA rankings are studied voraciously by applicants, students, and alumni but remain controversial. Notable changes…
Financial Times Ranks Wharton as #1 in 2022 Rankings
The Financial Times has released its global rankings of the best MBA programs and has considerably shuffled the deck. Several top-ranked programs fell several notches, while others rose considerably. For the first time since 2011, Wharton has returned to its status as #1 in FT’s list. Other programs that made giant strides in the rankings…
From the Mouths of MBA Adcom Members: How to Get Accepted
Looking for the best possible admissions advice? How about admissions advice from the admission committee members themselves? Linda Abraham, founder of Accepted and host of the Admissions Straight Talk Podcast has a collection of highly enlightening interviews with directors of admissions and adcom members of top business schools! Listen in as Linda asks her adcom…
MBA Students Pay Off Student Loans Faster Than Other Grad Degrees
Most grad students take out student loans to finance their higher education and can end up saddled with debt running into hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time they graduate. According to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal student loan data for nearly 600 programs, graduates of approximately 98% of universities that offer…
Stanford MBA Discusses Coffee Chats [Episode 437]
What can you do before starting business school to set yourself up for a valuable MBA experience? [Show summary] Bob Manfreda discusses his experience in the Stanford GSB program and shares wisdom from his co-authored blog, MBA Coffee Chats, and book, Coffee Chats: Thoughtful advice on how to get the most out of your MBA….
Kellogg Eliminates Applicant Indecision Delays: Applicants Can Now Apply to Multiple Programs
This year I worked with several applicants to Northwestern Kellogg who all faced a similar conundrum: which amazing Kellogg program should they apply to?! Kellogg offers a range of Master’s level business education: its traditional 2-year MBA program, a 1-year MBA program for professionals with a management or business undergraduate degree, the MMM joint degree…
U.S. News MBA Rankings 2022 [Full-Time & Part-Time]
The U.S. News 2023 ranking is now live! Click here to check it out >> U.S. News has just released its 2022 rankings of the best full-time and part-time MBA programs. The rankings are based on surveys sent out to the 486 business schools with master’s-level business programs in the US, accredited by AACSB International. …
Kellogg Receives Transformative Gift to Accelerate Women Leaders
Kellogg alumna Ann M. Drake ’84 has made a transformative gift to establish the Drake Scholar Network, according to the Kellogg website. This formal, global network will emphasize Kellogg’s long-term dedication to educating future female business leaders by fostering powerful, intergenerational connections between women students, faculty, and alumnae. In the words of Dean Francesca Cornelli,…
All About the Kellogg MBAi, for Students Passionate About Business and Technology [Episode 396]
The Kellogg MBAi: Where business and technology intersect [Show summary] Kate Smith, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Kellogg School of Management, breaks down the school’s brand-new MBAi joint degree and how it prepares students for careers at the intersection of business and technology. Interview with Kate Smith, Assistant Dean of Admissions and…
MBA Deadline Updates: How Will COVID-19 Affect the MBA Application Process?
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…
U.S. News Announces 2021 Ranking of Best MBA Programs
The U.S. News 2023 ranking is now live! Click here to check it out >> 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….
Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs in Their Twenties? [Episode 352]
Is there a connection between an entrepreneur’s age and her degree of success? [Show Summary] Are the best and most successful entrepreneurs’ twenty-somethings? As an entrepreneur, are you over the hill at 30, not to mention 40? Let’s find out from today’s guest, a Kellogg professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, who has actually researched the…
Financial Times Ranks Harvard as #1 in 2020 Global MBA Ranking
Harvard Business School has taken the top spot away from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the Financial Times 2020 global MBA ranking. Although the Financial Times ranking is designed to favor non-U.S. programs, 15 of the top 25 MBA programs are based in the U.S. This result comes despite the decline in applications to…
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