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Big changes are coming to the GMAT effective April 8. In what the GMAC is billing as greater flexibility and a more realistic test-center experience, the Analytical Writing Assessment is making a [...]

The US Department of Education announced on Friday that the Temple University Fox School of Business and Management agreed to pay a $700,000 fine for misrepresenting data to inflate its rankings [...]

The Graduate Management Admission Council reported that over two-thirds of graduate business schools reported increases in applications for the Fall 2020 matriculating class. This breaks down to [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article about a future path for the MBA degree. The article, linked above and subscription required, explains how this pandemic has provided proof for the [...]

The Financial Times has released its 2020 EMBA rankings. Kellogg/HKUST took the top ranking and its graduates reported average salaries of over $525,000 which represented an average growth of 67% [...]

London Business School has a problem. But, from their perspective, a very good problem. After receiving a record number of applications for Fall 2020, the school has received a lot of [...]

The Wall Street Journal published an article earlier today addressing the large number of applicants flocking to top business schools in search of a suitable safe harbor to ride out the pandemic. [...]

Well that didn’t take long. After blogging about a gloomy outlook just three, short weeks ago, the GMAC is reporting that, according to its most recent survey, recruiters expect to return [...]

Starting on September 23, the fee for the online GMAT will jump 25% from $200 to $250. But wait. There’s more! The GMAC, the company that administers the GMAT, will also begin charging a [...]

The Wall Street Journal has a great article about the job market for the MBA Class of 2021. As the article, linked above, explains, many traditional employers such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers and [...]

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University has just introduced a new tech-focused MBAi degree. It’s a new joint degree with the McCormick School of Engineering, which is [...]

The Wall Street Journal ran a nice article earlier today about the value of an MBA during a pandemic when in-person teaching is limited. It mentioned how many business schools are planning to [...]

Emory University’s Goizueta Business School will now also accept the LSAT and MCAT for its full-time MBA program. Additionally, its evening and EMBA programs are now test optional. We [...]

Poets & Quants has a nice article about UCLA Anderson’s tough stance with international applicants. As the article explains the school notified its international admits that they would [...]

Columbia Business School announced that it will also abstain from all rankings for 2020. This spring, the GMAC and the AACSB and EFMD accreditation agencies encouraged the major rankings to [...]

The Wall Street Journal published a nice article today on whether the top MBA programs will drop the GMAT/GRE requirement. While no one knows for sure what may eventually happen, the WSJ [...]

The Economist released its 2020 EMBA rankings and, indeed, it holds a few surprises. Berkeley Haas jumped to first place from fourth while Northwestern Kellogg jumped to second place from ninth [...]

The Financial Times is reporting that several several top business schools are reporting double-digit increases in application volumes after several years of decline. INSEAD led the pack with an [...]

The Financial Times released its 2020 rankings of the top masters of finance programs. Once again, the list was absolutely dominated by European schools. HEC Paris took the top spot for students [...]

You are forgiven if you missed this news with everything else transpiring, but the QS World University Rankings spawned the 2020 best Canadian business school rankings earlier this week. The [...]

NYU Stern joined the growing list of top business schools that has designated its full-time MBA degree as a science, technology, engineering, and math program. The designation will cover all [...]

Kellogg announced it is launching a deferred admission program called the Kellogg Future Leaders program. Seniors of any accredited undergraduate program can now apply under this program for [...]

Effective February 4, the fee to take the GMAT will increase 10% from $250 to $275. The fee becomes effective this Tuesday for every test booked on or after that date. This represents the first [...]

Harvard Business School took the top spot in the Financial Times 2020 Global MBA rankings. The school’s weighted salary of $210,110 ranked third after just Wharton, which ranked second, and [...]

The number of international MBA applicants, and applicants from India in particular, have been declining for some time. That is old news that shouldn’t surprise anyone. But the trend is [...]

Kellogg announced it is establishing a new Management Science major in 2020. The new STEM-designated major will be noted on transcripts as a major if students take at least four classes in this [...]

BusinessWeek released its 2019 business school rankings. Where to start? Well, we were taught that if you didn’t have something good to say, don’t say anything at all. That’s [...]

Our MBA application timeline has been updated for recommended applicant activities for November and December to help you stay on the right path whether you are a current applicant or prospective [...]

The 2019 GMAC Application Trends Survey Report has been released. It collected surveys from a total of 1,145 graduate business schools for the current academic year. The results should not [...]

WalletHub released their 2019 MBA rankings this week and, while they won’t receive nearly the press of US News & World Report’s rankings, Poets and Quants or Forbes, we think [...]

Wharton has changed course on its early MBA admission program. Effective this year, undergraduate and graduate students from all universities will be able to apply to Wharton through the Wharton [...]

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth received a $25 million from the Bakala Foundation USA, the family foundation of Zdenek Bakala, a Tuck ’89 alum and member of Tuck’s Board of [...]

We have updated our MBA book reviews for new editions of favorite books as well as new suggestions. For new releases, our reviews now reflect the new iPhone 11. For examples of new suggestions, [...]

Forbes released its 2019 MBA rankings and, for the first time in its 11-year history, Chicago Booth took first place. For the uninitiated, Forbes bases its ratings largely off a return on [...]

Yale SOM will be offering a new one-year master’s program in asset management. To do so, it will be leveraging the university’s investments office’s connections in the finance [...]

Harvard Business School saw a second consecutive year of applications decline. This past year, applications dropped 6.7% to 9,228. The previous year, the 9,886 HBS applications represented a 4.5% [...]

The 2019-2020 Cornell MBA application is now open. The deadlines are as follows: October Round — 10/8/2019 November Round — 11/5/2019 January Round — 1/8/2020 April Round — 4/8/2020 (final [...]

A European court in Luxembourg has shut down the United International Business School. This school offers degrees in Belgium. However, it is not properly accredited by the country. It [...]

Duke’s 2019-2020 full-time MBA application goes live on August 1. However, you can start brainstorming your application strategy now. The application deadlines are as follows: Round [...]

Columbia Business School named Costis Maglaras as its next dean just days before Glenn Hubbard steps down on July 1. Maglaras has been a professor at CBS since 1998. Additionally, he was director [...]

Wharton’s Dean, Geoffrey Garrett, is leaving. Next year, he will lead USC Marshall. Marshal is a very good business school. However, it has less prestige and fewer resources than Wharton. [...]

The Kellogg Class of 2022 full-time MBA application went live today. There are three rounds of deadlines: R1: September 18, 2019 (Notification by December 11, 2019) R2: January 8, 2020 [...]

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business released its Class of 2022 MBA application earlier today. There is an early action (non binding) deadline as well as three regular round [...]

We just published our latest video. It discusses strategies to mitigate a low GMAT score. And, yes, it’s also widely transferable for anyone taking the GRE. We embedded it at the bottom of [...]

INSEAD is launching a new Master in Management (MIM) program. The MiM will be a full-time, 10-month program. Its first intake class will start in August 2020. Furthermore, the program is [...]

The Gies College of Business at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is ending both its full- and part-time MBA programs. Illinois Gies Dean Jeff Brown explained, simply, [...]

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business received a $68 million gift earlier today. The donation from investor and alum Frank M. Sands, Sr. is the largest in the business [...]

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management hosted an admissions webinar earlier today. The audio wasn’t working for the first part of the seminar. (Please note the [...]

Our latest video has just been published. It completes the 2-part video series on understanding your MBA options. Part 1 covered the benefits of attending a top-ranked business school and the [...]

Earlier today, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) released its 2019 MBA Applicant Survey. Even in today’s digital world, MBA applicants appreciated [...]

The Telegraph published its top European business school rankings. If you’re not familiar with this ranking system, it leans heavily on international employers’ perceptions. Of [...]

We just published a new video. It’s the first of a 2-part video series that covers understanding your MBA options. Part 1 covers the benefits of attending a top-ranked business school and [...]

Don’t Shoot the Messenger Let’s be clear. Gender bias is real. (Thanks for not shooting the messenger.) Furthermore, it’s not always intentional. And that’s the really [...]

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is moving its London campus to One Bartholomew Close next spring. The 43,796-square-foot facility will occupy the first three floors of the [...]

We just released our latest video titled, “Positioning yourself to succeed as an MBA reapplicant.” We hope you enjoy it. You can subscribe to our Youtube channel by clicking this [...]

We just released our latest video titled, “Three MBA Admission Questions You Will Never Get Answered.” We hope you enjoy it. You can subscribe to our Youtube channel by clicking this [...]

US News & World Report just released its 2020 business school rankings. Not surprisingly, there was more volatility at the top again this year. Wharton jumped from third to first and [...]

hopp Market Research released its rankings of the top 25 European business schools earlier today. The rankings are only based on two, simple criteria. Firstly, the average salary for new [...]

The March edition of our Insider Edge newsletter will be published on Monday. In addition to exclusive savings offers, this month’s issue will include: It’s Not Too Early to Start [...]

We have good news for McGill Desautels prospective applicants. You will be eligible for the new McCall MacBain scholarships. It turns out John McCall MacBain received scholarships for his [...]

NYU Stern just announced a new online Master of Science in Quantitative Management Program (MSQM). Certainly, early-career candidates without undergraduate business degrees are the target market [...]

Indian business schools reported graduate salary increases according to Business Insider. Additionally, the increases were not confined to just the IIMs. SP Jain and Xaviers joined the ranks of [...]

“Are you freaking kidding me? It’s 2019. Who still writes thank-you notes? Are there even any emoticons designed for those things?” (That’s our creative license. [...]

The Financial Times released its 2019 MBA rankings on Sunday and, as expected, some schools saw their ranks change considerably from last year. Stanford remained the top-ranked school for the [...]

Two-year MBA program applications are down. A lot. The University of Iowa is shuttering its two-year program this spring after graduating its final cohort of admitted students. The University of [...]

The Financial Times published a great article highlighting the gender wage gap among MBAs. The article contains a lot of details. It breaks out the gender wage gap by industry and gives some [...]

Presenting nonprofit experience in a b-school application is this month’s David’s Corner. Nonprofit experience is valued at all of the top MBA programs. As always, if you have any [...]