Content written by Neelam Pandey and published by hindustantimes. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Battling vacant seats and a dip in campus placements, more than 100 business schools offering MBA degrees and postgraduate diplomas in business administration applied for closure in 2017-18, according to officials familiar with the development. Click Here to Read More Via … [Read more...]
LLU School of Public Health’s MBA to transition to MHA degree
Content written by James Ponder and published by The Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The Loma Linda University School of Public Health recently announced that it will transition its popular master of business administration degree program to a master of healthcare administration degree beginning in the summer of 2018. Helen Hopp Marshak, PhD, dean of … [Read more...]
Universities Take a Harder Look at Whether M.B.A. Programs Are Worth It
Content written by Kelsey Gee and published by The Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Business schools are facing a tough business problem. While graduate schools of management can make money for the institutions that house them, their M.B.A. programs sometimes bring in little more than prestige. Deans and industry-watchers have been bracing for a … [Read more...]
Are MBA Programs Dying? 4 Reasons To Worry
Content written by Gregory Yang and published by Poets&Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: A number of schools in the US have announced closure of their MBA programs in recent years. In August, University of Iowa announced that it would shut down the MBA program at its Tippie College of Business. Wake Forest University, Thunderbird School of Global Management, … [Read more...]
After Outcry, U. of Wisconsin Drops Plan to Suspend Admissions to 2-Year M.B.A. Program
Content written by Katherine Mangan and published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. MBA News Digest Comment: Interesting to see how Tippie and the University of Wisconsin handled the same situation. Difference in leadership? Extracted Content: Last week’s announcement that the University of Wisconsin at Madison planned to suspend admissions to its business school’s two-year M.B.A. … [Read more...]
Wisconsin School of Business Reverses Course on Halting M.B.A.
Content written by Kelsey Gee and published by Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The Wisconsin School of Business reversed course on a plan to suspend admissions to its full-time M.B.A. program while it undergoes a review of the school’s business strategy, officials said Wednesday. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source Click Here to Leave a … [Read more...]