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Economic Crisis Wallops Business Grads

Current students jockey for fewer jobs; programs see surge in applications

BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Nov 16, 08 5:37 AM CST
(Newser) - With the financial world in free-fall, recent business-school graduates are finding fewer jobs and fierce competition for the ones that remain, Business Week reports. “A lot of the factors affecting my future employment are out of my hands,” said one MBA student preparing to hunt for a job in an increasingly tight market after graduation next year. More »

More about:  Financial Crisis • business school • college graduates • consulting • risk management

Univ. of Chicago Biz School Banks $300M

Low-profile fund manager Booth makes historic donation

Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Nov 7, 08 5:46 AM CST
(Newser) - An alumnus of the University of Chicago who made a fortune from principles he learned at its graduate business school has donated a no-strings-attached $300 million to the school, reports the Chicago Tribune . The donation, by Dimensional Fund Advisors founder David G. Booth, is the largest ever to a business school anywhere in the world. The school will be renamed in Booth’s honor. More »

More about:  philanthropy • University of Chicago • business school

 B-Schools Use
 Palm Scans
 to Catch Cheats 

ID confirmation targets impostors taking admissions exam

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Jul 22, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to foil cheaters, top American business schools will require a high-tech identity check of applicants taking the standardized admissions test, reports the Wall Street Journal . The crackdown on the use of paid impostors will require GMAT takers to undergo a "palm vein" scan, which is unique to each individual. More »

More about:  cheating • business school • fingerprinting • GMAT • testing

 Yoga Turning 
 B-Schoolers 
 on Their Heads 

Capitalists latch on to search for inner peace

BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT student said. More »

More about:  business • Harvard • MIT • stress • University of Chicago • capitalism • Northwestern University • business school • yoga • BusinessWeek

Best Undergrad Biz Schools

Wharton keeps the top spot for undergraduate business education

BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Mar 1, 08 6:10 PM CST
(Newser) - The financial world may be on its ear, but undergraduate business schools are booming as increasing numbers of quality high school grads drive up standards and B-school grads command more on the employment market. Here are the 10 best, as ranked by Business Week: Pennsylvania (Wharton): Can be too competitive. Virginia (McIntire): Intense workload. Notre Dame (Mendoza): Ethics focus draws raves. More »

For Sale: My Seat in Class

Wharton's auction system among solutions to overenrollment in popular courses

Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle of Higher Education Feb 15, 08 4:53 PM CST
(Newser) - It beats sleeping overnight outside a professor's office—as some do at Stanford—but should students buy their way into popular classes? The University of Chicago thought not, removing one student's ad hawking a slot in Freakonomics author Steven Levitt's course. Penn's Wharton School has a more capitalistic view, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. More »

Recruiters
Pick Top 10
Biz Schools

WSJ's annual rankings come up with some surprising choices

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Sep 18, 07 8:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ivy Leaguers and Mormons round out this year's eclectic list of top MBA programs.  To come up with the rankings WSJ and Harris Interactive asked 4,430 recruiters to rank M.B.A. programs on 21 attributes, including leadership potential, and communication skills.  National Rankings: Dartmouth College (Tuck) University of California, Berkeley (Haas) Columbia University More »

Top 10 US Business Schools

Step it up a notch (and raise your profile) at these elite centers of learning.

Forbes Forbes Aug 19, 07 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forbes ranked these business schools not only on their prestige but for their return on investment. Dartmouth (Tuck) Stanford Harvard More »

Accounting Degrees
Add Up

Number-crunchers are BMOCs
with companies desperate to fill slots

Washington Post Washington Post Jul 6, 07 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Accounting majors have become the most in-demand kids on campus, and prospective employers are wooing them with lavish parties, free vacations, and promises of handsome signing bonuses. Colleges aren't turning out enough number-crunchers to meet the growing demand, which has skyrocketed in the wake of stricter controls required by Sarbanes-Oxley, the Washington Post reports. More »

More about:  accounting • business school • recruitment • Sarbanes Oxley

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