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Black Colleges Join With UC to Create New Summer Business Program
The University of California and black colleges are creating a pathway for black students to attend business school. Called the UC Summer Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders, the program is geared to boost minority attendance in its graduate business programs.
The all-expensive paid fellowship program is a two week program for two consecutive years. While students from all majors at historically black colleges and universities are welcome to apply, they must possess and interest and experience in business. Participants meet with some of the leading CEOs and CFOs in the nation and take summer classes dealing with business development and entrepreneurship as network with their peers. At the end of the second program session, the students will receive a Certificate of Completion as an emerging manager and leader in business.
The LA Times reports that UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business will host the inaugural round of students. This summer the 25 selected students will visit UC Berkeley and five other UC campuses. The $125,000 budget for the fellowship was sponsored by Anthem Blue cross and Wells Fargo, as well as donations from other corporate and private entities. Fundraising for next year’s session has already begun.
The deadline for the summer program is March 30. More information can be found on UC’s website.
Getting Your Tuition’s Worth: The Top 9 Business Schools In The Country
Business school still offers a safe and reliable way to riches for many. But it’s not only how hard you work while you’re in business school but also which institution you attend that’ll make a difference in earning potential. Forbes released its seventh biennial ranking of the best business schools in the land. They based their rankings on the return on investment attained by the graduates from the class of 2006 at over 100 schools. Based on their research and findings, they came up with a “5-year M.B.A. Gain.” The list is much longer but here’s just the top 9. We’ll tell you now, the top b-school in the country is pretty easy to guess.
9. Darden School of Business at University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Famous Alumnus: John R. Strangfeld, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Prudential Financial
10 Undergraduate Business Schools With Global Appeal
There was once a time when it was considered a luxury for a college student to have an international experience, but those days are long gone. Now, receiving international exposure during one’s undergraduate years is becoming a mandatory requirement. But that doesn’t mean just doing a semester abroad taking general education courses. Students are looking for schools to provide them with an experience that not only applies to their major, but will also benefit them long after their degree is in hand. As such, Bloomberg Businessweek compiled a list of the top 113 undergraduate business schools that are offering competitive international programs. To identify which schools had the most noteworthy programs, Bloomberg Businessweek used a methodology that looked at student satisfaction, postgraduation outcomes and academic quality. Here are 10 schools from the list:
University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business
At Mendoza, students have the option of studying abroad in countries like Egypt, Haiti and South Africa. It is estimated that about half of the school’s business students go overseas for study abroad, and that number keeps rising each year.
Private vs. Public: B-School by the Numbers
(Businessweek) — Anyone who has shopped around for a college business program has confronted the harsh calculus that rules any financial cost-benefit analysis. Elite private programs cost more, but frequently deliver better career outcomes. State schools cost less, but you may end up getting shortchanged on jobs. Nowhere is this clearer than in Bloomberg Businessweek‘s latest analysis of tuition costs and starting salaries for the magazine’s 113 ranked undergraduate business programs. Annual costs for state schools on the list average less than a third of those for private schools—$10,495 vs. $35,408. At the same time, the median starting salaries for public and private schools differ by $4,590, or 9 percent—$46,461 for public schools, $51,051 for private schools. The result: In our analysis of starting salaries earned per annual tuition dollar spent, the state schools fare much better, averaging $4.97 vs. $1.64 for the private schools.
Business Schools Face Stiff Competition from Abroad
(Wall Street Journal) — U.S. graduate business schools are losing their iron grip on the thriving market for international M.B.A. students. At the 25 U.S. graduate-business programs that award the largest numbers of degrees to international students, applications for the 2011 fall semester declined 4%, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Council of Graduate Schools, based in Washington, D.C. Although international applications to all American business schools rose by 4%, that figure paled in comparison to the 12% growth in international bids to U.S. programs offering degrees in engineering and physical and earth sciences, the survey said. Business-school deans attribute the relatively sluggish growth to a growing number of high-quality competitors overseas.
What Business Schools Look For In Prospective Students
by Sue Naylor
The MBA admission process is an intensely competitive one that involves putting the right paperwork together, staying focused and impressing the panel who will decide your future. Talent and business acumen go a long way in moving up the career ladder and what business schools seek is the required raw material to create good managers and executives. For example, students who are interested in pursuing an MBA degree in marketing must be talented enough to sell and market themselves just like they would do with an incredible product that is ready to be launched.
Leadership traits are also very important and business schools are interested in your professional experience and presentation skills apart from your academic profile and other qualifications. They are interested in accepting students who exhibit leadership skills and can be relied on to make major business decisions in the future and help companies grow and reap profits.
Well-defined professional goals and maturity that are gained after a few years of work experience come in handy when you apply to a business school. The admissions panel also needs to be convinced that you are ready and willing to take on the demanding course of study as a part of the MBA program. This is the main reason all business schools accept only those candidates who have cleared tough analytical, reasoning, verbal and quantitative tests before they even apply for the program of their choice. Intellectual strength combined with achievement in the classroom goes a long way in determining your ability to be a top notch student.
Slowly, Top B-Schools Gain in Diversity
(Businessweek) — Business schools have been actively recruiting minorities for years. Many have been teaming up with organizations to educate young people in underrepresented groups about what they can get out of an MBA. Have these efforts worked? The answer is: sort of. In the last 10 years, top business schools have increased the number of enrolled minority students, but the gains have been modest and not every school improved, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek analysis of the schools’ self-reported enrollment data.
MBA Pay: Top B-Schools, Top Dollar
(Businessweek) — Harvard Business School is the most expensive full-time MBA program, with tuition and required fees eclipsing $106,000 for two years. It’s a big investment, but it pays off: HBS grads earn more money over the span of their careers than grads from any other MBA program. “It’s the trickle down effect,” says Robert Dammon, associate dean and professor of financial economics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business (Tepper Full-Time MBA Profile). “The kinds of students that the best schools attract are going to get the highest-paying jobs.”
MBA Pay: Top B-Schools, Top Dollar
(Businessweek) — Harvard Business School is the most expensive full-time MBA program, with tuition and required fees eclipsing $106,000 for two years. It’s a big investment, but it pays off: HBS grads earn more money over the span of their careers than grads from any other MBA program. “It’s the trickle down effect,” says Robert Dammon, associate dean and professor of financial economics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business (Tepper Full-Time MBA Profile). “The kinds of students that the best schools attract are going to get the highest-paying jobs.”
