Content written by Michael Stoner and published by Inside Higher Ed. MBA News Digest Comment: This sponsored article makes several good points. Extracted Content: Considering that the website is a university’s most-visible and most-used marketing and communication channel, just what makes a higher education website great? I wanted to find out what others thought, so last week I searched … [Read more...]
Online Is (Increasingly) Local
Content written by Doug Lederman and published by Inside Higher Ed. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The proportion of students studying fully online who are enrolled within 50 miles of their homes has risen from under half to fully two-thirds, a new study finds. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
Why Online MBAs Are The Future
Content written by Gregory Yang and published by Poets&Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Just last week, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced the closure of its full- and part-time MBA programs as the school intends to focus on expanding its online MBA program. The move highlights the growth in popularity of online-format MBAs in recent … [Read more...]
MBAs Say This Is The Most Valuable Course In Business School
Content written by Jeremy Hazelehurst and published by Poets & Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: New research by CarringtonCrisp, an education consultancy, shows that the course which prospective MBA students deem “most valuable” is Business and Financial Environment. Thirty-nine percent of respondents to the annual survey — conducted this year between November … [Read more...]
Underemployment for recent grads worse today than in early 2000s
Content written by Sibile Marcellus and published by Yahoo Finance. MBA News Digest Comment: Is this a target group for GME recruiting? Extracted Content: The underemployment rate for recent college graduates is higher today than it was in the early 2000s. More people are working in jobs they’re overqualified for in order to make ends meet, taking jobs that don’t require a college degree. … [Read more...]
Enrollment Shortfalls Spread to More Colleges
Content written by Eric Kelderman and published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: A broad swath of private colleges across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions are expected to miss their enrollment goals for the fall semester. That growing trend now includes some institutions that have rarely, if ever, had to worry about filling … [Read more...]