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US MBA Applications Up!
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Sunday, 02 September 2007

A survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) revelas that nearly two-thirds of full-time business education programs received more applications in 2007 than they did last year.

Among part-time programs, 69 percent reported increased application levels.

Further, 63 percent of executive MBA programs-typically geared for professionals with eight or more years of experience-said more applicants came to their doors this year compared with 2006.

These figures follow similarly robust increases in application levels in 2006, reflecting continued strong interest among employers in hiring business school graduates. GMAC was told by corporate recruiters that the biggest obstacle they face in hiring new MBAs is competition from other employers, and that a majority of new MBA graduates reported receiving multiple job offers this year, often weeks before graduation.

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Tuesday, 24 July 2007
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English the Language of Instruction Across Europe
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Saturday, 21 July 2007

InsideHigherEd reports that increasingly, Masters level courses across Europe are being taught in English. The trend can even be seen in France which has long stood out for the primacy of its own language.

The report says that the 'English-language professional degree programs are primarily in business, the sciences and engineering', but other areas are catching up. The shift is part of the process of European Higher Education harmonisation being driven through the Bologna process.

 For the full story, look here.

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In a move that's guarenteed to raise a few eyebrows, the Chancellor of CUNY (City University of New York) has suggested that universities might want to offer conditional acceptances on science, technology, engineering and maths programmes at the point they first enrol in College.

His thinking is informed by the difficulties that universities have in recruiting to PhD programmes in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths).

Universities keen to bolster flagging recruitment in the STEM subject areas are having to turn to increasingly radical solutions in order to meet the needs of both the universities (whose professors are rapidly ageing as those recruited in the boom years of the 1960s and 70s approach retirement) and of the knowledge economy. (To read more about this, go to 'Are American Scientists an Endangered Species?')

Whatever the outcome, this type of concern does mean that students who intend to go to graduate school to study in the STEM subjects will find it increasing easy to enrol at the School of their choice.

 

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