Posts Tagged ‘MBA’
Eleven innovative business school scholarships
With many business schools keen to widen participation, communications experts Stephanie Mullins and Peter Remon from specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education explore some of the most diverse scholarships offered in the industry. Business education can be a significant investment of both time and money – and business schools don’t want that to deter candidates. With this in mind,…
Read MoreWhat do specialised MBA programmes look like today?
MBAs remain the flagship programme at most business schools; now, Associate Director Stephanie Mullins and colleague Kyle Grizzell at specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education explore what can happen when you specialise the MBA using industry examples. The Master’s in Business Administration – the recognisable MBA – has been the postgraduate degree most heavily associated with business schools…
Read MoreDesigning the MBA journey
By Andrew Dalik and Ewa Maciejewski from the University St. Gallen, the 2021 EFMD MBA Conference Chairs The 2021 EFMD MBA Conference was designed with the following takeaways in mind: 1. Role model conversations that people can have cross-departmentally 2. Offer concrete examples, experiments and best practices 3. Equip people with a toolkit of questions…
Read MoreWhy 2021 is a good time for an MBA
Vaccines are being rolled out but the economy still needs time to recover, so is this prime time to head to business school? Associate Director Stephanie Mullins and colleague Kyle Grizzell at specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education speak to experts and discuss further. Now much of the business education sector has come to…
Read MoreReconfiguration of the Enrollment Funnel for B-schools: New GMAC Survey Research
Applications for graduate management education (GME) increased by 2.4 per cent based on the weighted absolute change analysis of 731 programs that responded to the 2019 and 2020 Application Trends Survey. This is a reversal from a decline of 3.1 per cent in the applications last year. This reversal of trends is in line with…
Read MoreCorporate Recruiters Survey Shows Optimism for the Hiring of B-School Graduates
The global economic outlook reversed its course to pessimism and uncertainty in a matter of months due to COVID-19. This shift has also reset the demand and supply of talent at many levels. How has COVID-19 impacted the skill demand and hiring projections for MBA and Business Master’s graduates? The Graduate Management Admission Council™ (GMAC™)…
Read MoreLatest corporate recruiters trends. Join GMAC webinar on 1 October 2020
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is a global, mission-driven association of leading graduate business schools. Founded in 1953, GMAC is actively committed to advancing the art and science of admissions by convening and representing the industry and offering best-in-class products and services for schools and students. See the original post here. GMAC conducts the…
Read MoreImpact of COVID-19 on Prospective Students Considering European Business Schools
In the last two decades, the Bologna Process coupled with the increasing pace of globalisation propelled the growth of master’s level enrolment in the business and management programmes in Europe. Many European business schools benefited from the mobility of learners from within Europe and overseas. According to Eurostat, every one out of four students enrolled…
Read MoreReducing the weight of salary criteria in rankings – impact assessment
What would rankings look like if the main organisations eliminated or reduced the weight of the salary measure? Laurent Ortmans, Quality Assurance and Ranking Manager at ESMT Berlin and a former statistician behind the FT rankings, shared his views at the recent 2019 EFMD Master Programmes Conference. When someone criticizes the weight given to salary…
Read MoreLearn to love uncertainty to grow the MBA of the future
Andrew Crisp draws out key findings from the 2019 Tomorrow’s MBA report For those in the MBA marketplace, learning to love uncertainty has become something of a requirement and is a focus of the newly released Tomorrow’s MBA report from CarringtonCrisp and EFMD. Stories of the MBAs demise abound, but are wide of the mark,…
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