Content written by Gregory Yang and published by Poets&Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The good news: Recent MBA grads are making more than previous grads. The bad news: They are also more dissatisfied with their job offers. Let’s start with the positive. 46% of newly minted MBA grads have had job offers for $125,000 or more, according to a new survey … [Read more...]
EXAMINING FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE ALUMNI GIVING FROM TRADITIONAL AND ONLINE MBA ALUMNI AT COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
Content written Erin Guild and published as a Colorado State University Dissertation. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Increasingly, institutions of higher education seek out alumni support to help offset budget cuts and look toward technological advances to lower costs of instruction and create new revenue streams. In light of the desire to increase funding for university … [Read more...]
Survey: Most Students Say Online Learning Is as Good or Better Than Face-to-Face
Content written by Dian Schaffhauser and published by Campus Technology. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: In a survey of 1,500 students who are seriously considering, currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a fully online program, most (86 percent) considered the value of their degree equal to or greater than the cost they paid to take it. Among those who have … [Read more...]
Florida Atlantic University establishes Women in Leadership program
Content written by Emon Reiser and published by South Florida Business Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Florida Atlantic University has established a Women in Leadership program named for Kathleen Brush after the alumna gave more than $1.3 million for its launch. The program, part of the university's executive education offerings, will eventually be integrated into … [Read more...]
Stark gender gap in earnings after postgraduate study
Content written by Anna Mckie and published by Times Higher Education. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Data on postgraduate employment and earnings released by the UK’s Department for Education show that the median salary for men five years after graduation is higher than for women in nearly all reported subject areas. The latest Longitudinal Education Outcomes data for … [Read more...]
Nordic business schools should create MBAs ‘for rent’
Content written by Matthew Reisz and published by Times Higher Education. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: If Nordic business schools truly wanted to embrace the future, AMBA chair Bodo Schlegelmilch told them, they needed to consider the new model of “MBAs for rent” whereby students kept returning to learn about the latest developments in their industry and top up their … [Read more...]