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Real Humans of the Michigan Ross MBA Class of 2019
The 422 students who make up the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business Class of 2019 are a record-setting bunch. For starters, their average GMAT score was 716, an eight-point jump over last year’s, which was itself a record. But they also set records for their diversity. Forty-three percent of... Read more »
Choosing the Best Business School for Consulting
If you are a prospective MBA applicant looking to business school as a way to enter or accelerate your career in the consulting industry, you are certainly not alone. According to the 2017 Prospective Student Survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), consulting is once again the most sought-after... Read more »
2017-2018 MBA Deadlines
Many of the top business schools have already announced their MBA deadlines for the upcoming admissions season. So, to help you stay organized, we’ve compiled all of the earliest deadlines all in one place. For schools that have announced their essay topic(s), we’ve provided a corresponding link to our Essay Topic Analysis. We will... Read more »
Wharton MBA Students Lend Brain Power to Philly Bid for Amazon HQ2
Philadelphia is one of dozens of cities wooing Amazon with bids designed to entice the Seattle-based e-commerce giant to build its second headquarters in their backyards. Today is the deadline to get those bids in. Some cities—like Austin and Albuquerque—chose to highlight their 300+ days a year of sunshine as... Read more »
Top HBS MBA Interview Tips from Actual Interviewees
We know that many of you Class of 2020 hopefuls are eagerly awaiting your interviews with the Harvard Business School (HBS) admissions committee. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up the top interview tips from last year’s experienced candidates, as reported in the Clear Admit Interview Guide. You can thank... Read more »
Oxford Saïd Dean, Together with Apple’s Tim Cook, Launches New Entrepreneurial Hub
Building on the success of Saïd Business School’s Oxford Launchpad and Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University has launched a new entrepreneurial hub: the Oxford Foundry. Saïd Dean Peter Tufano and Apple CEO Tim Cook helped kick things off at an October 11th launch event. The new student-led and student-centric... Read more »
Cambridge Judge MBA Alumna Shortlisted as “MBA Star”
The Women of the Future Awards were created to provide a platform to recognize remarkable women in business in the United Kingdom. For the 2017 awards, Harshitha Balini, a recent Cambridge Judge Business School graduate (MBA ’17), was shortlisted in the “MBA Star” category. The MBA Star category is open to... Read more »
Top #MBA Tweets of the Week: #Healthcare
Healthcare is a hot topic in business school communities these days, and so we’re setting the spotlight on related Twitter posts in this edition of Top #MBA Tweets of the Week. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the latest attempts to repeal it, UT Austin / McCombs... Read more »
$50 Million Alumni Gift Promises to Help Transform Learning at UNC Kenan-Flagler
The University of North Carolina and its Kenan-Flagler School of Business recently received a $50 million gift from alumni John and Marree Townsend. The Townsends’ contribution will go toward the Innovative Directions campaign, which focuses on transforming teaching and learning through virtual reality, simulations, augmented reality, gamification, and artificial intelligence.... Read more »
Essays
Vanderbilt / Owen MBA Essay Topic Analysis 2017-2018
Following up on the 2017-2018 essay topics for the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, we wanted to offer our Essay Topic Analysis for the Class of 2020 hopefuls. Vanderbilt /
SMU / Cox MBA Essay Topic Analysis 2017-2018
With the release of the 2017-2018 SMU Cox essay topics, we wanted to offer some guidance to applicants. This year, SMU / Cox again asks MBA applicants for a typical career goals essay as well as othe
Rochester / Simon MBA Essay Topic Analysis 2017-2018
We’re following up the Rochester / Simon Business School essay questions with our essay topic analysis for the applicant pool seeking entrance in 2018. Rochester / Simon MBA Essay Topic Analysis 2
Interviews
Top HBS MBA Interview Tips from Actual Interviewees
We know that many of you Class of 2020 hopefuls are eagerly awaiting your interviews with the Harvard Business School (HBS) admissions committee. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up the top interv
Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part IV
The following is the final part of our four-part interview series, which we first published two years ago, and are reintroducing again season. We’ve tackled open versus invitation-only, blind vers
Understanding the MBA Admissions Interview, Part III
In this, our third installment of our interview series, which we first launched two years ago and are reproducing for this season, we’ll take a closer look at one of the more recent interview permut
Careers and Financial Aid
Cambridge Judge MBA Alumna Shortlisted as “MBA Star”
The Women of the Future Awards were created to provide a platform to recognize remarkable women in business in the United Kingdom. For the 2017 awards, Harshitha Balini, a recent Cambridge Judge Busi
Top 5 Reasons Diversity MBA Conferences Should Be on Your Recruiting Calendar
More than 10,000 MBA students, business school representatives, recruiters, and business executives filled the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia late last month for one of the largest car
Social Impact MBAs: Programs That Help Students Make a Difference in the World
For years, social impact has been a growing area of emphasis at business schools. Increasingly, MBA students are stating that a well-paying career isn’t enough: They also want to make a difference.
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