Written by: Paulina Karpis Published by: Forbes MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: For my parents' generation, the default option for career development was getting an MBA. At one point in the late 2010s, I considered the degree, too. But as much as the brand glittered, a price tag of $200,000 plus two years of lost wages just didn’t seem worth it. And now? Is an MBA worth it in … [Read more...]
College Inc. Faces a Sticker-Price Reckoning
Written by: Spencer Jakab Published by: Wall Street Journal MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: As New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway points out, higher education is perhaps the only industry that hasn’t faced pressure to cut costs. The actual instruction received is affordable enough that gross margins are great, but overhead has become perilously high. To … [Read more...]
A New Study Suggests You May Want To Rethink That MBA
Written by: Preston Cooper Published by: Forbes MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: In a new working paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Joseph Altonji and Ling Zhong investigate this question. Altonji and Zhong examine individuals’ earnings before and after attending graduate school, then extrapolate their pre-graduate school earnings to estimate what those workers … [Read more...]
Is This New Ranking Of MBA Programs Legit?
Written by: Marc Ethier Published by: Poets&Quants MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: There’s a new ranking in town. WalletHub, a personal finance website owned by NerdWallet, has compiled a list of nearly 100 MBA programs in the United States and ranked them according to three main categories: return on investment, student selectivity and program quality, and campus … [Read more...]
Is an M.B.A. Still Worth It?
Written by: Andy Kessler Published by: Wall Street Journal | Opinion MBA News Digest Comment: The video at the end of this article is interesting viewing. Extracted Content: “What year were you?” a Morgan Stanley colleague asked me years ago. “Huh? Year?” I replied. “What year at HBS?” H-B-what? “What year did you graduate from Harvard Business School?” Oh, I get it now. “I didn’t go to … [Read more...]
Is an M.B.A. Still Valuable? Under the Right Circumstances, Say WSJ Readers
Content written by Anne Michaud, Amber Burton, and Taylor Nakagawa and published by The Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment. None. Extracted Content: A recent Wall Street Journal article noted declining enrollment in master’s in business administration programs at U.S. business schools in favor of shorter, more specialized master’s and online degrees. The waning popularity of … [Read more...]