All Articles Tagged "graduate 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.
Business School Applications Sputter
(Businessweek) — The two-year boom in business school applications that accompanied the deteriorating economy appears to be over, with 12 top U.S. MBA programs now reporting that 2010 applications are flat or down compared with 2009, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School(Wharton Full-Time MBA Profile) in Philadelphia and the Haas School of Business (Haas Full-Time MBA Profile) at the University of California at Berkeley.
MBA School Moving, Expanding Schaumburg
(Crain’s) — The Lake Forest Graduate School of Management is more than tripling the size of its Schaumburg location in a move to a building two miles south of its longtime site. The private, non-profit school signed an 11-year lease for 14,000 square feet at 1300 E. Woodfield Road, where it plans to open late this year. The new location in a seven-story building near Meacham Road has a higher profile that Lake Forest’s current location at 1295 E. Algonquin Road on the Motorola Inc. campus. The school currently has 4,000 square feet under a lease that expires at year-end, a spokeswoman says.
