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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…

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management has introduced eleven new courses, including several that have come out of the school’s efforts to promote cross-disciplinary learning. Announcing the changes, Kellogg emphasized the importance of broad and modern coursework in preparing students for their roles as leaders. As Therese McGuire, Senior Associate Dean of Curriculum and Teaching,…

Bloomberg has just published it’s 2016 MBA rankings. Harvard Business School has held onto the number one spot, but don’t be fooled: there are significant changes from 2015 to 2016.           Case in point: Stanford Graduate School of Business has risen from 7 to 2 while Rice University’s Jones Graduate School…

Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, put forward a radical idea when they hit the scene a few years ago: take all the material from a course and put it online so anyone with an internet connection can learn from home. Now, a venture capitalist wants to go a step further and do the same…

This year, Scott DeRue left his position as professor at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business to become the youngest dean in the history of the school. While DeRue is only a few months into the job, he is already giving indications about what his priorities are and where he expects the school to…

Recently, top business schools have been increasingly proactive about drawing international students to their campuses, including by adding more scholarships specifically for international students. Cue Oxford University’s Saïd School of Business introducing a new scholarship for Chinese MBA students. The school announced the scholarship a couple weeks ago as a partnership between Saïd and the…

I’ve written this blog with the Indian Applicants in mind. As a former admissions assistant director for Harvard and the co-founder of EXPARTUS, an admissions consulting company that helps hundreds of students every year get into their top-choice MBA programs, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news: You’re likely an…

2013 marked the 50th anniversary of Harvard Business School first admitting women to their program. Given the stats today, it’s hard to believe that prior to 1963, women were not admitted to the business school at Harvard. Forty-three percent of HBS’s Class of 2018 are women, a far cry from the handful of eight women…

Top business schools are going out of their way to reach out to female applicants. In recent years, these schools have been especially eager to close the gender gap in their incoming classes. But while top B-schools are keen on enrolling as many women as possible, admission remains highly competitive. Whether you’re male or female,…

Move over, Harvard and Stanford! You’ve got nothing on Chicago, Kellogg and Darden — at least according to the 2016 Economist MBA rankings. The Economist’s list is known for being the rebel among the major MBA rankings, and this year is no exception. For 2016, the top ten schools are: 1. University of Chicago Booth School…