The MBA Page – Requirements, Time planning, GMAT & TOEFL Pointers
Written by a Malaysian student who entered an MBA program in the U.S. this article may be useful for international students. Topics include:
– Thinking about doing an MBA?
– Where to start?
– Typical profile/requirements of an MBA student
– Time planning
– The GMAT and TOEFL Test
– Research the School
– MBA Costs
– Managing Expectations
– … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: About the MBA Degree
Get Smart
Fast Company 3-Part series on the status of the MBA in the post-dot-com shakeout. First article focuses on admissions, second article focuses on recruiting and the third on curriculum.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Business School News
Essay Question: The Web is Transforming the University. How and Why? (Please Use Examples.)
This man runs the largest private university in the United States. You may never have heard of the University of Phoenix, but it’s using the power of the Internet to lay siege to the ivory tower. To its students, UOP is a godsend. To critics, it’s sacrilege. And to prestigious institutions from Columbia to Stanford, it’s a new business plan.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Paul Keegan | Source: eCompany Now | Subject: Online & Distance MBA
So You Want to Get Into a Top Business School?
Article has 7 main sections:
1. Make Sure that you want to go
2. Determine which schools are the good ones
3. Pick the kind of program you want to attend
4. Get some general application tips
5. Take the GMAT and ready your transcript
6. Nail the essays
7. Get good recommendations
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Getting In
Teaching New Executives Some Old Tricks
Talks about B-Schools reaching out to the dot-com executive population.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subjects: Executive Programs, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Is the MBA Obsolete?
Article discusses one man’s prior work experience, his experiences in an executive MBA program and his opinions on its value.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Leaders for a New Millennium
This site from Harvard Business School offers advice on how to best prepare for business school and for taking full advantage of the business school experience.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Getting In
Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA
After six years as a White House speechwriter for Reagan and Bush, Robinson enrolled at Stanford Business School, wrestled for two years in perpetual exhaustion with often incomprehensible mathematical, organization and marketing concepts and, upon earning his MBA “union card for yuppies,” interviewed in the communications world of Robert Maxwell, Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch (who hired him for a brief stint). In the tradition … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Peter Robinson | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Five Ways to Make Business Schools into Useful Institutions
Author of the best-seller Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA, offers five suggestions to the deans of America’s business schools.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Part-Time Students Are Getting Full-Time Attention
Enrollment is at record highs. And since part-timers are so profitable, schools are going out of their way to attract and keep them.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Part-Time, Weekend and Evening MBA Programs
Building a World-Class Business School in Japan
BusinessWeek article looks at Japan’s attempt to finally establish a western-style MBA program at Hitotsubashi University.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: International MBA Issues
Degrees Granted Online May Lack Status
NY Times article examines how degrees earned online are viewed by recruiters and employers.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Online & Distance MBA
B-School ROI Calculator
Business Week Online offers this great Return on Investment Calculator. All you need to do is select the schools you’re thinking of attending, enter your own data, click “Calculate it!”, and you’ll get an estimate of what return a typical student like you is likely to earn on your investment of money and time.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subjects: Choosing a Program, MBA Program Rankings
Distance-Educator.com
online site catering to the field of distance education (not just MBA)
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Online & Distance MBA
Australia’s Best Business School
This is an internal page from Melbourne Business School that recaps the findings of the article, ‘Australia’s Best Business School’, BRW 14 Jan 2000.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: MBA Program Rankings
How Earning an MBA Eases a Career Change
Most professionals enroll in B-school to advance their careers, but others sign up for a more radical reason: to shift direction entirely…
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Hatching Success
More and more B-schools are starting ”business incubators” to launch startups. Is it education or business? Well, it’s both
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Business School News
The Virtual Classroom Versus The Real One
Forbes article discusses the boom in online education.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Online & Distance MBA
List of MBA Programs Offered Online
Download this document creaed by TechRepublic that lists 13 online MBA programs offering contact information, background info, student demographics, number of students, costs, technical requirements, accreditation and rankings, benefits to students, and comments from the program and students.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Online & Distance MBA
Degree.Net
Site for information on distance learning, provided by John Bear, Ph.D., author of the long-time best-selling Bears’ Guide to Earning Degrees Nontraditionally.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Online & Distance MBA