Archive for December 2016

Cornell Business has a new Masters in Management, or MiM, program in the works, Business Because has revealed. Plans are currently underway for Cornell to become the latest United States school with an MiM offering in 2017. With the launch of the program, Cornell will become part of a larger trend. The MiM, a general…

When we start to work with a new client at EXPARTUS, a big part of the process is helping them determine which schools would be a good fit for their strengths and post-MBA goals. Most clients when they come in just say, “I want to go to a Top 3 school”, or “I only want…

Columbia Business School and University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business have released their Class of 2016 employment reports. Unsurprisingly, neither group of alums has had a hard time finding work. Ninety-seven and 98 percent of Columbia and Ross MBAs respectively received job offers within three months of graduating. Alums from both schools also tended…

This week brought not one but two rankings of international business schools: Financial Times’s 2016 ranking of European business schools and Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2016 ranking of non-U.S. business schools. This year, London Business School is the big winner, grabbing the number one spot in both rankings. UK schools Oxford Saïd and Cambridge Judge also made…

Starting an impact investing fund is no small task. Case in point: Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Impact Fund has been in the works for three years. In 2013, a group of students approached Stanford GSB’s Center for Social Innovation about creating a fund that would give students hands-on experience in impact investing. Now, that…

According to the results of Kaplan Test Prep’s annual survey of business school admissions officers, 92 percent of B-schools now let applicants choose between submitting GMAT or GRE scores. This number is up slightly from 90 percent in 2015. More significantly, it has skyrocketed from 24 percent in 2009, the first year Kaplan started tracking…

Poets & Quants have published their 2016 MBA ranking, which combines data from five prominent rankings of business schools. This year’s top ten remain the same as last year, but with some switching around of places:  Harvard Business School Stanford GSB Chicago Booth Northwestern Kellogg University of Pennsylvania Wharton MIT Sloan Dartmouth Tuck UC Berkeley…