Content written by John Byrne and published by Poets & Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: According to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service, GMAT reported that Chowfla was paid $1,862,158 in salary, bonus and benefits in 2017, the latest year for which data is available, up from $1,028,783 a year earlier. Most of the increase was the result of a … [Read more...]
Latest trends in MBA degrees: Shorter duration, more specialized and you can get one at Vanguard
Content written by Daphne Zhang and published by The Inquirer. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: On a chilly evening last month Vanguard employees in Malvern walked to a nearby building to take the full-time MBA class offered by Drexel’s LeBow College of Business. Men and woman in their 20s to their 40s come to class for three hours, twice a week, all on the company’s … [Read more...]
GRE Pilots A New ‘Soft Skills’ MBA Admissions Test At Yale SOM
Content written by Marc Ethier and published by Poets & Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Working with Yale School of Management, Educational Testing Service, which administers the GRE, has been developing a noncognitive online assessment to better determine how applicants will perform once they arrive on campus. For the last two admissions cycles, thousands of … [Read more...]
44% Of LSAT Test-Takers Use Khan Academy’s Free Online Prep
Content written by Paul Caron and published by TAXPROF Blog. MBA News Digest Comment: Will GMAT and GRE be next? Extracted Content: It turns out you can’t beat free. More than 40,000 people each month are using Khan Academy’s new free, online Law School Admission Test prep program, according to figures released Wednesday by the Law School Admission Council and Khan Academy. That’s a … [Read more...]
Regents OK admission change for MBA program
Content written and published by the Odessa American. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: University of Texas Permian Basin gained approval from the UT System Board of Regents Tuesday to waive the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score as a requirement for admission to the master of business administration program for applicants who have seven years of significant … [Read more...]
US political climate causing MBA slump
Content written by Kerrie Kennedy and published by The Pie News. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Almost a third of business schools across the US have identified the domestic political climate as the top reason for the recent slump in applications, while 74% have said they are concerned it will impact international student enrolment in the years to come, a new Kaplan Test … [Read more...]