Top 15 Part-Time MBA Programs in the US

1. Worcester Polytechnic, Worcester, Massachusetts
2. UCLA (Anderson), Los Angeles, California
3. UC Berkeley (Haas), Berkeley, California
4. Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
5. Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, Michigan
6. Elon (Love), Elon, North Carolina
7. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
8. Rice (Jones), Houston, Texas
9. Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana
10. Drexel (LeBow), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11. Emory (Goizueta), Atlanta, Gerogia
12. Chicago (Booth), Chicago, Illinois
13. Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, California
14. Case Western (Weatherhead), Cleveland, Ohio
15. SMU (Cox), Dallas, Texas

via BusinessWeek.com

Harvard Business School is the place where the chief executive officers, hedge fund stars and Goldman Sachs partners of tomorrow learn their craft. Now, in a break from tradition, a new course is focusing on the troubles of everyday consumers.

Consumer Finance, as it is known, will look at topics ranging from the best ways to boost the savings rate to how banks can deliver better products for low-income customers. Instead of proceeding along the conventional HBS path and delving into corporate case studies, students will focus on the financial lives of real middle-class families. In one exercise, they create a budget for a Boston family of average means, figuring in costs for such everyday staples as food, transportation and insurance.

“By the time our MBAs graduate, they will have looked at financial statements for hundreds of companies,” said Peter Tufano, the professor who teaches the course along with Howell E. Jackson, a faculty member at Harvard Law. “Other than in our course, they would have never looked at the financial statements of a single household.”

via www.Forbes.com

The Aspen Institute published the 2009-2010 edition of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey and popular alternative ranking of full-time MBA programs.

This only MBA ranking that looks beyond reputation and test scores to measure something different: how well schools are preparing their students for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day.

TOP 10 MBA Programs in the US

1. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
2. Yale School of Management, Yale university (New Haven, Connecticut)
3. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
4. Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)
5. Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
6. NYU Stern, New York University (New York City, New York)
7. Columbia Business School (New York City, New York)
8. Darden School of Business, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)
9. The Johnson School, Cornell University  (Ithaca, New York)
10. The George Washington University School of Business (Washington, D.C.)

via www.beyondgreypinstripes.org

The Aspen Institute today releases the 2009-2010 edition of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey and popular alternative ranking of full-time MBA programs.

While many MBA rankings exist, only this one looks beyond reputation and test scores to measure something different: how well schools are preparing their students for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day.

This year, 149 business schools from 24 countries participated in the ranking, leaded by Schulich School of Business.

Top 10 International Schools:

1. Schulich School of Business, York University (Toronto, Canada)
2. RSM Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
3. IE Business School (Madrid, Spain)
4. Nottingham University Business School (Nottingham, England)
5. Griffith Business School (Brisbane, Australia)
6. INSEAD (Paris, France)
7. Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
8. ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain)
9. John Molson School of Business (JMSB), Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
10. University of Stellenbosch Business School (Cape Town, South Africa)

via www.beyondgreypinstripes.org

This is the ninth year the Financial Times has published its ranking of Executive MBA programmes, part-time MBA degrees for senior working managers.

In recent years the fashion has been to develop EMBA programmes that are taught in several different countries, often through partnerships between different business schools, as you can see in the ranking.

The list is compiled using data from two sets of surveys: one is completed by alumni who graduated from the respective programmes three years ago, in 2006; and the other by the business schools. You can read more about the ranking methodology here.

The TOP 30 EMBA 2009

1- Kellogg/Hong Kong UST Business School (China)

2- Trium: HEC Paris / LSE / New York University: Stern (France, UK, USA)

3- Columbia/London Business School (USA, UK)

4- University of Chicago: Booth (USA, UK, Singapore)

5- Insead (France, Singapore)

5- University of Pennsylvania, Wharton (USA)

7- IE Business School (Spain)

8- London Business School (UK)

9- Columbia Business School (USA)

10- Duke University: Fuqua (USA)

11- National University of Singapore School of Business (Singapore)

12- Washington University: Olin (China)

13- UC Berkeley/Columbia (USA)

14- IMD (Switzerland)

15- New York University: Stern (USA)

16- Iese Business School (Spain)

17- Northwestern University: Kellogg (USA)

18- Kellogg/WHU-Otto Beisheim School (Germany)

19- Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

20- University of Michigan: Ross (USA)

21- City University: Cass (UK)

21- Essec/Mannheim (France, Germany)

23- Kellogg/York University: Schulich (Canada)

24- Purdue, Tias, CEU, GISMA (USA, Netherlands, Hungary, Germany)

25- ESCP Europe (France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy)

26- Ceibs (China)

27- OneMBA: CUHK/RSM/UNC/FGV São Paulo/EGADE (China, Netherlands, USA, Brazil, Mexico)

28- UCLA: Anderson (USA)

29- University of Toronto: Rotman (Canada)

30- University of Western Ontario: Ivey (Canada, China)

via Financial Times

IESE, a Spanish Business School, tops The Economist’s eighth annual ranking of full-time MBA programmes. You can read more about the ranking here.

TOP 30 full-time MBA ranking:

1. IESE Business School – University of Navarra, Spain
2. IMD International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland
3. California at Berkeley, University of – Haas School of Business, United States
4. Chicago, University of – Booth School of Business, United States
5. Harvard Business School, United States
6. Dartmouth College – Tuck School of Business, United States
7. Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States
8. London Business School, Britain
9. University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School, United States
10. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium
11. University of Cambridge – Judge Business School, Britain
12. York University – Schulich School of Business, Canada
13. New York University – Leonard N Stern School of Business, United States
14. HEC School of Management Paris, France
15. Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, United States
16. IE Business School, Spain
17. Melbourne Business School – University of Melbourne, Australia
18. Cranfield School of Management, Britain
19. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Sloan School of Management, United States
20. Columbia Business School, United States
21. Henley Business School, Britain
22. Warwick Business School, Britain
23. INSEAD, France / Singapore
24. University of Virginia – Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, United States
25. University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business, United States
26. Mannheim Business School, Germany
27. Yale School of Management, United States
28. Duke University – Fuqua School of Business, United States
29. ESADE Business School, Spain
30. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – School of Business and Management, Hong Kong

via The Economist

Entrepreneur magazine published their 8th annual ranking of top graduate colleges for entrepreneurship. This is the TOP 10:

1- Babson College
F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business
Arthur M.Blank Center for Entreprenership
Babson Park, MA

Enrolled students: 1,559
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 96%
Scholarships: $327,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 9
Mentorship programs: 5
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $35,000

2- University of Southern California
Marshall School of Business
Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Los Angeles, CA

Enrolled students: 1,342
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 82%
Scholarships: $5,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 3
Mentorship programs: 5
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $60,000

3- Drexel University
Bennett S. LeBow College of Business
Entrepreneurship
Philadelphia, PA

Enrolled students: 78
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 100%
Scholarships: $350,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 4
Mentorship programs: 6
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $90,700

4- Tulane University
Freeman School of Business
Levy Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship
New Orleans, LA

Enrolled students: 120
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 100%
Scholarships: $200,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 1
Mentorship programs: 3
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $50,000

5- Rice University
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
Entrepreneurship
Houston, TX

Enrolled students: 227
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 100%
Scholarships: $210,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 5
Mentorship programs: 5
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $810,000

6- Temple University
Fox School of Business and Management
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute
Philadelphia, PA

Enrolled students: 396
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 75%
Scholarships: $56,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 1
Mentorship programs: 5
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $29,500

7- University of Washington
Michael G. Foster School of Business
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Seattle, WA

Enrolled students: 410
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 74%
Scholarships: $157,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 2
Mentorship programs: 11
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $75,000

8- University of Arizona
Eller College of Management
McGuire Entrepreneurship Program
Tucson, AZ

Enrolled students: 50
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 74%
Scholarships: $100,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 2
Mentorship programs: 10
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $10,000

9- DePaul University
Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
DePaul University Entrepreneurship Program
Chicago, IL

Enrolled students: 237
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 100%
Scholarships: $50,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 3
Mentorship programs: 3
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $25,000

10- University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Steven M. Ross School Of Business
Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
Ann Arbor, MI

Enrolled students: 1,600
Faculty who are entrepreneurs: 50%
Scholarships: $100,000
Number of entrepreneurship clubs: 7
Mentorship programs: 3
Business plan competition: Yes; Prize: $100,000

via www.Entrepreneur.com

The University of Denver will offer a master of business administration degree in school leadership, with classes beginning in March.

“The MBA will give participants the business and management skills to open and lead autonomous charter schools,” the university said in a statement Wednesday.

The new program is a response to a shortage of qualified charter-school leaders, DU said. It is a joint effort of DU’s Daniels College of Business and its Morgridge College of Education as well as Get Smart Schools, a nonprofit that seeks to increase the number of high-quality schools serving low-income students.

“As our students move through the program, they’ll have opportunities to work with leaders from industry, entrepreneurial ventures, non-profit organizations and government,” Daniels Dean Christine Riordan said in a statement. “What they will gain is a much more diverse and in-depth perspective of educational leadership than those in traditional business or educational programs. It’s a true collaboration between the Daniels and Morgridge colleges to provide a sound business foundation to the educational process.”

www.denver.bizjournals.com

How To Get Into the Top MBA Programs
by J.D., Richard Montauk

MBAs get respect. The prestige and value of the degree have grown to the point where now the quality of the degree is determinative, says the author. Graduates from top schools can earn as much as 50 to 100 percent more than those who graduate from lower-ranked schools. Montauk, president and founder of Education USA, which assists business school applicants, has thoroughly researched MBA programs for this work. Each chapter explores a step in the process, from the decision to apply to surviving once accepted. The chapters on selecting the right program, marketing yourself, and writing essays provide exceptionally valuable information and tips. For any library that serves undergraduate business school candidates, this is essential; recommended for other larger collections.

Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting into the Top Business Schools
by Omari Bouknight

With graduates from top business schools bringing home six-figure pay packages and entering into exciting fields such as private equity, high-tech, investment banking, and management consulting, the MBA has rapidly become the world’s most desired degree. As a result, the competition for admission into select programs is fierce; some admit less than 15 percent of applicants.

In this challenging environment, Your MBA Game Plan is the resource you need–it has helped thousands get into the best schools and achieve their career aspirations. You could be next.

Written by the co-founders of a leading business school admissions service, this book will guide you through the demanding application process and help you differentiate yourself in the ever-growing pool of applicants. Your MBA Game Plan will show you how to:

* Maximize your chances of admission to a top business program.
* Ace the GMAT.
* Craft compelling essays and resumes that highlight your most salient attributes and make you stand out to the admissions committee.
* Perform flawlessly during your admissions interviews.
* Prepare your recommenders to effectively support your admissions bid.
* Select target schools and highlight the personal characteristics and skill sets that they look for.

This revised edition includes sample essays and resumes from successful applicants, fresh insight on 30 leading business schools, and advice specifically tailored to international students.

MBA Admissions Strategy: From Profile Building to Essay Writing
by Avi Gordon

“I would definitely buy this book if I were applying again.”–Rodney Bryant, Macquarie Bank, Australia, formerly of Morgan Stanley, New York
Learn all about MBA admissions techniques and skills from an expert!

MBA Admissions Strategy guides candidates through the four most important aspects of a successful, competitive business school application: -Competitive Strategy -Profile Development -Essay Management and -Writing Technique

This lively and accessible new book takes you step-by-step through the process of producing a successful MBA application, with primary emphasis on the essays.

The book outlines a system for candidates to identify the competitive value of their past and construct an application profile and compelling message from this. The book then deals with the typical essay questions that applicants face and shows candidates how to fit their profile message to each question: how to know what to write, which essay to write it in, and how to write it well. Along with specific templates and solutions for improving expression, the book shows readers how to avoid common essay pitfalls. An essential must-read for all those considering applying for a MBA.

The Best Business Schools’ Admissions Secrets: A Former Harvard Business School Admissions Board Member Reveals the Insider Keys to Getting In
by Chioma Isiadinso

Top MBA programs reject more than 80 percent of the applicants. When trying to beat the tough business school competition, how do you know what will get you fast-tracked to the “yes” pile (or the dreaded “no” pile)?

No insider is better suited to set you on the right track than Chioma Isiadinso, a former Harvard Business School MBA Admissions Board Member and the founder of Expartus, an admissions consulting firm specializing in helping candidates get into the top MBA programs. The Best Business Schools’ Admissions Secrets is the ultimate collection of insider advice, direct from one of the country’s toughest admissions boardrooms.

Centered around the concept of branding yourself, Isiadinso covers all the essential topics you need to master to stay ahead, including:

Understanding the admissions criteria
Essay essentials
Resumes and professional records
How to nail the interview
Critical mistakes to avoid
And much more
No other business school admissions advice guide can claim this level of authority. The Best Business Schools’ Admissions Secrets is sure to give you the edge you need to shine in the eyes of admissions boards everywhere.

Business School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Business School Experience: By Students, for Students
by Robert H. Miller, Katherine F. Koegler, Robert Miller, Katherine Loucks

For college students thinking about applying to business school or for those in the workforce considering an additional degree, the authors give the lowdown on taking the GMAT, choosing a school, funding your education, selecting a major, preparing for exams and seeking full-time employment upon graduation. Miller (Law School Confidential) and Loucks, a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, interviewed current MBA students to get the skinny on the “business school experience.” They include handy tips for admissions interviews, getting a federal loan to pay for school, determining an appropriate workload and obtaining that coveted summer internship. Although the advice on “business school etiquette” is somewhat unnecessary (“do not speak out of turn”), for the most part, this is a valuable tool for those ready to throw themselves into b-school.

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