Archive for April 2017

Peking University’s HSBC Business School has acquired a property in Oxford, England that it will use to launch an overseas campus. When the campus opens in summer of 2018, the business school will become the first in China to launch a campus abroad. Peking University’s HSBC Business School, or PHBS for short, was founded in…

Our previous blog looked at dual degree options at eight top business schools: Booth, Columbia, Fuqua, Haas, Harvard, IE, INSEAD, and Kellogg. This week, we’re covering nine more. Is an MBA dual-degree program the right choice for you? When it comes to dual-degree programs (also referred to as joint degrees at some schools), the key…

At most schools, an MBA is a general management degree – an excellent way to hone your leadership skills and develop strong foundational business skills across a number of departments and operations. But if you’d like to delve deeper into a specific industry or career path, a general management MBA may not be the best…

The United States has the best business schools in the world – according to United States business schools anyway. Not that they’d be biased or anything. A recent Kaplan Test Prep survey of 125 business schools in the United States found that at the overwhelming majority of schools, admissions officers thought U.S. business schools were…

It’s been a big few weeks for business school donations. First, the Wharton School announced that they’d received a $10 million donation to create a deferred enrollment program for University of Pennsylvania undergrads. Now, with the Haas School of Business and INSEAD receiving equally significant gifts, there seems to be a trend. Haas’s gift is…

Applying to schools for your MBA can be a long and sometimes difficult process. Then comes the even harder decision of deciding which school you want to attend once you’ve been admitted. We know you take time to decide where you go because you know it impacts the course of your career. This is why…

Deferred enrollment programs are an increasingly popular way for students to apply to MBA programs right out of college while still gaining work experience before matriculating. And now Wharton is getting into the game with a new deferred enrollment program for Penn undergrads. The impetus for the new program was a $10 million grant from…