Many students apply to grad school believing that another degree will improve their professional options and salaries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)’s employment forecast published in the summer of 2018, they may be right. The BLS forecast the jobs in master’s-level professions would rise by close to 17% between 2016-2026, and jobs…
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Financial Times Releases 2019 Global MBA Rankings
This year’s Financial Times’ Top 10 Business Schools is made up of the same names as last year’s list. Although Stanford Graduate School of Business has stayed in the top spot, there was a lot of shuffling around of the other top 9. Most notably, Harvard Business School rose to the #2 spot after falling…
Poets & Quants Releases 2018 MBA Rankings
Poets & Quants has released their 9th annual MBA ranking. P&Q integrates the five most recent rankings from the top publications in the world: U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times, and The Economist to come up with their rankings. Each source is ranked based on P&Q’s determination of their credibility….
Bloomberg Businessweek Announces Best U.S. Business Schools
Bloomberg Businessweek conducted its 2018 survey of 10,473 MBA students, 15,050 alumni, and 3,698 recruiters about their business school experiences and their goals. Their answers, in addition to information about salary and job-placement data from each school, combined to create each school’s rank. The ranking of non-U.S. programs will be released in December 2018….
UC Berkeley Haas EMBA Application Essay Tips & Deadlines
These Haas EMBA essay questions reflect the larger Haas (and, even further, Berkeley) community and culture: they draw out the multi-faceted individual. Your professional goals and your prospective fit with the Haas EMBA program are expressions of, and extend from, that core individuality. Even though part-time, the EMBA program, again reflecting Haas culture, is intense…
The Berkeley MFE: One Tough Program with Amazing Opportunities for Grads [Episode 279]
The Scoop on Berkeley’s Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) [Show Summary] Dr. Linda Kreitzman, Executive Director of the Master of Financial Engineering Program at UC Berkeley – Haas is passionate about the program. On today’s podcast Linda will take us through specific aspects of the program and what makes it unique, what it takes to…
UC Berkeley Haas Appoints New Dean
Ann E. Harrison, a Berkeley alumna and famed Wharton economist, will begin her tenure as the next dean of the Haas School of Business on January 1, 2019, reports a Haas press release. Harrison received her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in 1982, where she double majored in Economics and History. From 2001 to 2011…
UC Berkeley Haas MBA Application Essay Tips & Deadlines
Haas, like several top MBA programs, is looking for a new dean to replace its dynamic, innovative dean, Richard Lyons, on July 1. He has served as dean for the last eleven years. I expect an announcement any day. Despite the impending change at the top, Haas is extremely difficult to get into. It has…
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….
Poets & Quants Releases 2017 Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs
Poets & Quants has just released their 2017 ranking of Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs, and the holder of the top spot may come as a surprise. For the first time ever, Wharton has overthrown Harvard Business school to take the top spot in the Poets & Quants composite rating. This is just the second…
From the Mouths of MBA Adcom Members
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…
The Economist 2017 Full-Time MBA Rankings
The Economist has released its annual international ranking of full-time MBA programs based on data collected during spring 2017. Two surveys were used: 1) The first was completed by schools with eligible programs which covered quantitative subjects and accounted for 80% of the ranking. 2) Current MBA students and a school’s most recent graduating MBA…
Forbes Releases 2017 Ranking of Best Business Schools
Is it worth it to pursue an MBA, especially when the cost of tuition and lost wages can be more than $300,000? Most prospective MBAs apply to school planning to make a career change and/or obtain a higher salary. Forbes’ tenth biennial rankings of the best U.S. and international business schools are based exclusively on…
From the Military to Haas MBA [Episode 223]
Military and older student attending the UC Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA program. Let’s hear his story. Our guest today, David Middleton, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from the US Coast Guard Academy in 2003, when many of his classmates were in middle school. He served in different capacities in the Coast Guard, most…
Up Close and Personal with Berkeley Haas at the 2017 AIGAC Conference
Last month, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants – AIGAC – held its annual conference, and Berkeley Haas generously hosted our first two days. This “host” role included a valuable opportunity to interact with Dean Rich Lyons (just announced he will step down), Haas adcom members including Executive Director Morgan Bernstein, and Haas students….
U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Business Schools (MBA & EMBA) Rankings
U.S. News & World Report surveyed all 471 MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International in fall 2016 and early 2017. Of these, 377 responded and 131 were ranked (those that submitted enough of the necessary data on their full-time MBA programs that were needed to calculate the rankings). The…
FT Releases 2017 Global MBA Rankings
Financial Times has released its 2017 Global MBA Ranking of the best 100 programs. These rankings are based on surveys of business schools and their graduates of 2013. MBAs are evaluated according to alumni career progression, the school’s idea generation, and the diversity of students and faculty. Following are some of the findings of the…
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools of 2016
There are more graduate degrees awarded in business annually than in any other field in the US. Dozens of new business schools are accredited every year. Finding the right program for you can be an overwhelming task. Bloomberg’s annual ranking, or more specifically the data collected to create those rankings, may help you wade through…
Poets&Quants 2016 U.S. MBA Ranking
Harvard Business School has taken first place for the sixth time in seven years in the new Poets&Quants ranking of the best MBA programs in the U.S. Stanford is in second place, Chicago Booth is in third, and Northwestern Kellogg and UPenn’s Wharton School are tied for fourth. This is also the sixth out of…
Exploring the Haas MBA: An Interview with Peter Johnson [Episode 173]
Our guest today is Peter Johnson, Assistant Dean of the Full-Time MBA Program and Admissions at Haas School of Business. He has been on the admissions team almost continually at Haas since 2004, becoming the director in 2006 and the Assistant Dean of Admissions in 2012. Welcome, Peter! Can you give us an overview of the…
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