The struggling world economy and a demographic boom saw MBA applicant numbers grow in recent years. But the last two years have seen a 10 to 15% decline in applications to many of the world’s top business schools. Is the market for the full-time MBA beginning to shift? The dominance of the 2-year MBA programme at US business schools has been severely tested in recent years, and the latest data suggests that applicants from around the world are now showing greater interest in shorter programs in Western Europe and Asia.
Sean Ferguson is the Associate Dean of Master's Programs at the HKUST Business School in Hong Kong. Previously at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, Ferguson also spent several years in management consulting and the software industry, working for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in its transformation consulting ...
With tax day in the U.S. fast approaching, the idea of finding deductions to reduce the amount you end up owing to the IRS becomes a national pastime. So what about the tens of thousands of dollars in tuition fees that MBA students fork out to develop their business skills? ...
The US might have been the home of modern business education, but the idea of it holding a monopoly on the sector has long been assigned to the waste basket of history. Find a continent (or even a country) these days without a recognizable business school and you must be ...
There are many good reasons for going to a top business school. The connections to major companies, the experience and insight of your fellow students, the academic rigor of your professors. But high on the list for many is the address book—admission to an international network of movers and shakers ...
There all almost as many different motives for taking an MBA as there are MBA students themselves. Some look for the hike in salary that the three letters after your name so often bring; others are attracted by the idea of obtaining an address book that will open doors around ...
Business school and the MBA, in particular, is a great opportunity to discover your real professional calling. The admissions office expect you to be specific about your post-MBA career goals at the point of applying, not when you graduate. However, the idea of sharing a year or two with individuals ...
Some countries get all the luck when it comes to their neighbors. And for most of its history, the US has been fortunate to have some of the world’s least troublesome, actually downright nice, people on its northern border: the Canadians. Canadians just don’t make waves. They get on with everybody. ...
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