Chicago’s Booth School of Business remaining at the top of The Economist’s ranking of the world’s top MBA programs for the second year in a row is only one of a few stable things in this year’s ranking, according to the Poets & Quants website. This is the seventh time Booth has taken the…
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Life at Yale SOM, Google Internship & the Importance of Diversity
Learn how real students navigate their way through the business school admissions process and b-school itself with our What is Business School Really Like? series. Meet Dan, a Yale SOM student with a background in engineering. Dan, thank you for sharing your story with us! I understand your undergraduate degree is in engineering. How does your engineering…
Yale’s School of Management Increases Financial Aid to Veterans
According to Yale Daily News, the School of Management is the first private business school in the U.S. to provide a complete subsidy for tuition and fees to eligible vets admitted to the MBA program. Eligible vets must have had at least three years of service besides any service that paid for their undergrad education…
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…
Yale Som: Integrated in Its Curriculum, with Its University, and to the World [Episode 273]
Interview with Laurel Grodman, Director of Admissions for Analytics and Evaluation at Yale SOM [Show Summary] Laurel Grodman, Director of Admissions for Analytics and Evaluation at Yale SOM, shares her perspective on how Yale differentiates itself from its competition and what it takes to be a successful applicant. The school has experienced explosive year-over-year growth…
Yale SOM Dean Ted Snyder to Step Down in 2019
Edward (“Ted”) A. Snyder will step down at the end of the 2019 academic year as the Indra K. Nooyi Dean of the Yale School of Management. Snyder, currently on sabbatical, will return to his position on July 1, 2018, and will complete his term on June 30, 2019. Snyder’s retirement as Yale’s dean will…
MBA Interview Formats: Video Essays
This post is part of a series exploring the different forms MBA interviews take and how you can ace them all! Kellogg and Rotman among many others have included required video essays in their applications. Why adcoms use this method: • It allows the adcom to see the applicants respond in almost-real-time to questions. •…
An Electrical Engineer from Ghana Makes His Way to Yale SOM
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 Ernest Kojo Mills… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? Ernest: I’m from Cape Coast in the Central…
Can The Consortium and Forte Foundation Boost Your Goals? [An Interview]
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 Jasmine… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? Jasmine: Hi everyone! I grew up in Honolulu, HI and…
Mission and Admissions at Yale School of Management [Episode 169]
Which MBA program just revealed that over half its alumni network gives back to the school? Yale SOM. That’s more than double most schools’ giving rate. Which MBA program experienced a 6% increase in applications in 2016 on top of a whopping 25% increase in 2015? Yale SOM. And which MBA program is in the…
B-Schools That Rank for Landing Jobs in Investment Banking
When looking to fill investment banking positions, top firms tend to direct their searches towards cream of the crop universities. Here are the top b-schools you should be looking at to give yourself the best chance of getting hired after graduation, according to the latest eFinancialCareers findings. * For a complete list of the top…
Yale SOM Has 5-Point Plan to Boost Brand
Yale’s School of Management needs a plan, and according to a Poets & Quants article, Dean Edward Snyder, dean since last August, is taking definitive steps to boost Yale SOM’s standing in the b-school playing field, as well as end the financial losses that totaled $15 to $20 million over the last 15 years. Yale…
Consortium MBA Admissions Director Interview Available Online
Thank you for attending our recent Consortium Strategy Q&As with Travis McAllister and the reps from participating Consortium schools UT McCombs, University of Wisconsin, UC Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross, CMU Tepper, Indiana Kelley, and Rochester Simon. The school adcom representatives each talked about what’s new at their schools and how their programs view…
2012 Yale SOM Admissions Director Interview Posted
We covered a wide range of admissions-related topics during our recent Yale SOM Q&A. Thank you to Bruce DelMonico, Director of Admissions at Yale SOM, for an excellent conversation! You can read the whole Yale Q&A transcript or listen to the full audio clip online. (You can also catch previous Q&As for other top programs…