Whether graduating from Haas with an MBA, Bachelor’s, or PhD, the job search seems to be getting a little bit easier. According to early employment data for the MBA grads, the “mean and median base salary for the class [is] currently trending to exceed last year’s.” Eighty-eight percent of this year’s class has received offers,…
Berkeley Introduces New Letter Of Rec Policy
Starting this fall, UC Berkeley will invite some of its applicants to submit two optional letters of recommendation. On the Berkeley site, the following points are highlighted as key concepts that LOR writers should consider: • Academic performance and potential (both overall and in the context of the class) • Love of learning • Leadership…
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…
Which Universities Contribute the Most to VC-Backed Entrepreneurship?
PitchBook did a study that ranks universities around the world based on the number of graduates who have founded U.S. companies with VC-funding from 2010 to 2013. The idea is that a school’s ranking success shouldn’t just reflect its scores or its sports teams, but that it should reflect how actively the schools are producing…
