IE Business School and Brown University: All set to meet the need of the day

IE Business School and Brown University have announced the formalization of relationship for a comprehensive. Both Brown and IE share the similarity of achieving an academic excellence and innovative methods of teaching. They are continuing to instill and emphasize the importance of achieving entrepreneurial spirit in the academic world. The press release says that they are anticipating the development of a wide range of research and teaching opportunities in the forthcoming years as they are looking forward to explore the synergy effect. The initiative has also come at the apt time as the global meltdown is calling for an innovative approach and systematic rethinking of the financial systems and management paradigms. This is the team when the managers need to be exposed to a much broader perspective than before. Thus, both the institutions aim to utilize the mutual strengths of each other. This is supported through the exchange of faculty and students through the exchange of faculty and students from various programs as well as different levels.

MBA in London Business School

The London Business School has been a dream institution to graduate from for millions of people. It is one of the top business schools; it is situated in the heart of world’s pre-eminent city. You can be assured of finest teaching methods and solutions that can help you to get the right career impact. The London Business School’s international and multicultural learning environment is one of its most valuable assets. It has almost 28500 international alumni spread around 130 countries. The School has a range of world class masters programs, executive education and PhD programs. Some of its master’s programs are as follows:

  • MBA
  • Executive MBA
  • EMBA-Global Americas and Europe 
  • EMBA-Global Asia
  • Dubai-London EMBA
  • Masters in Finance (full-time format)
  • Masters in Finance (weekend format)
  • Sloan Fellowship M.sc
  • Masters in Management

A Drastic Rise In The Number Of Women For CAT

With a constant rise in the number of aspirants of the IIM in each year, the number of women who are attempting the common admission test has also been rising over the years. This year out of the 2.76 lakhs of candidates, who have taken up the common admission test, nearly 54000 of them are women. Arks Srinivas, the director of Triumphant Education says that there has almost been an increase of twenty percent in the number of women participants. He also adds that this is due to the availability of opportunities in the in the finance sector, human resource and the marketing sector. As per the estimates only 13% of the aspirants get a chance in the IIM’s and on the count of 54000 women there are 13% who are getting the chance of a call in the IIM’s. However there has not been much rise seen in the number of women in the IIM’s.

An Overview Of The Eligibility Criteria For MBAs Abroad

There are many universities from so many countries that are aggressively marketing their M.B.A degree, so there is often confusion about the selection of the degree where you need to take up the degree. Hence it is important that while you are analyzing the universities do remember their presentations and seminars that they had delivered, then it is also important that you require the information from the students who have already undergone the master’s degree there. Look in for the eligibility criteria it is important that you need to fit on to their requirements:

Australia/NZ

  • Eligibility: 3-year graduation is accepted
  • GMAT:This is not an essential requirement for the B- schools
  • Work experience: Essential

 UK

  • Eligibility: 3-year graduation accepted
  • GMAT: Recommended
  • Work experience: Essential

U.S/Canada

  • Eligibility: Min. 4 yrs education after 10+2
  • GMAT: Essential
  • Work experience: Recommended/Required for most of the schools. 

 
 

Financial Times Declares The 2008 Global MBA Ranking

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school of business continued to retain the first spot for the fourth consecutive year followed by the usual suspects of the European business school of Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and the London business school which had their pie at the second spot. This is the highest position ever a European business school has achieved. The Financial times ranking also included a number of world class business schools from Asia particularly in China. The Ceibs was placed at the eight positions. The Stanford University of U.S.A dropped to the sixth position from the fourth place and it also shared its position along with the IE business school of Spain. However the New York University remained steady at its tenth position.

IIM - A Selects 1000 Candidates For The Final Round

Lakhs of Indian graduates after having taken up the Common admission test in November, 2008 are now awaiting their call letters. The most premier Indian institute IIM Ahmedabad has sent given away the call letters to almost 1000 students. The institute has seen almost seen 38000 aspirants to the valuable 306 students. There were about 3336 students who had crossed the cut off criteria of the institute but the institute has short listed 1000 students to attend the final rounds of group discussion and personal interview. On the other hand the state topper of the entrance test has already received the call letters from the six IIM, but the topper who has just completed his IIT engineering says that he prefers to join the ITC factory which he has got through the campus placements.

Online MBA is today’s trend

Everything in today’s world is available online and education is also obtainable online. This has been introduced to assist those students who aspirers to get higher qualification while working. Online MBA were introduced for the students who cannot attend regular lectures because of their work. This program provides deep information about the concepts and helps student learn not face to face but online.

Today people are so occupied by their work that they can’t sacrifice that for learning purposes. The online concept will teach you at your expediency. It is very easy as you can learn anywhere by accessing net. The object of this program is to help people acquire more knowledge while working. In this lectures will be attended by you at your comfort. In simple terms it is learning with ease and at your suitable conditions.

MBA ranking as per Business Week

A ranking report as per the Business Week MBA has ranked the Wharton institute as the first in MBA institute in USA. The list goes as follows: The Wharton institute in Pennsylvania in Wharton, Kellogg institute in the North western America, Harward school of business, MIT, Duke, Michigan, Columbia, Cornell, Virginia, and Chicago on the tenth position. The eleventh placement was given to Stanford followed UCLA (Anderson) , NYU (Stern), Carnegie Mellon , UNC - Chapel Hill, Dartmouth (Tuck), Texas - Austin (McCombs), UC Berkeley (Haas), Yale, Indiana, Rochester (Simon), Vanderbilt (Owen),Washington University (Olin) and on the twenty fourth positioning as USC, followed by Purdue (Krannert),Georgetown (McDonough),Maryland, Emory (Goizueta), Michigan State (Broad) and Georgia Tech (DuPree).

Fast track professional MBA

The University of Georgia Terry College of business is offering its second version of the Executive MBA program. This program would replace the college’s evening MBA program and it would be known as Fast track professional MBA. The classes would be held on the evenings of week days and on some selected Saturdays. The Fast track professional MBA program is one among the three courses which is offered by the college. This course is a two year program and it allows a group of people to graduate as a class. It also aims at imparting the skills of personal leadership development. It has a model that has the dual benefits of face to face interaction along with structured distance learning with almost half the content delivered through electronic data transfer technology.

MBA Degrees intending to take you round the world

MBA degree is one which can offer you load of opportunities in your home town or even outside your home town. Some of the MBA students these days are very much interested in visiting the power houses of financial experience to show their international business experience after the graduation. According to a report in the Business Week, the few of the university which have initiated the trend of job hunting trips in the places which have not any impact by the global economic recession.

It has been seen that the not many people take up the jobs in the Middle East, but this trend is changing after the global economic recession. The bottom line behind this issue is that more number of MBA’s are just looking forward for their first job experience and later on this experience can serve as very much fruitful in the long run.