Content written by Nathan Allen and published by Poets&Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: MBA grads are some of the least pleased bunch among graduate students, a Gallup study published today (February 16) says. Fewer than half (42%) of MBA graduates earning degrees between 2000 and 2015 said they strongly agreed their education from graduate school was worth the … [Read more...]
Year-End Employer Poll Suggests Favorable Job Market for 2018 Grads
Content written and published by GMAC Research. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The findings of GMAC Research’s 2017 Year-End Employer Poll, a brief survey of employers completed in November 2017, show that employers plan to increase their business school hiring in the coming year. In total, 83 percent of responding companies plan to hire new business school graduates in … [Read more...]
2018 Key Issues in Teaching and Learning
Content written and published by EDUCAUSE. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Each year, ELI surveys the higher education community to determine key issues and opportunities in post-secondary teaching and learning. These key issues serve as the framework, or focal points, for our discussions and programming throughout the coming year. More than 900 community members voted on … [Read more...]
Why More MBA Grads Than Ever Don’t Want Wall Street Jobs
Content written by Bloomberg and published by Fortune. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: A new survey shows that jobs outside of Wall Street are becoming increasingly enticing to recent MBA graduates. According to data from Training the Street, bulge bracket banks were a top employment choice for just 19 percent of respondents. Not only is that a drop of 7 percent from last … [Read more...]
Most Millennials Learn More from Technology than from People
Content written by Rhea Kelly and published by Campus Technology. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The majority of millennials ages 18-34 (69 percent) learn more information from technology than from people, according to a new report from nonprofit leadership training organization Growing Leaders. In comparison, just 50 percent of surveyed adults ages 45 and up said the … [Read more...]
Innovation in MBA delivery ‘top challenge’ business school leaders say
Content written by Natalie Marsh, The Pie News and published by The Chronicle of Education. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Catering to a new generation of students as well as coming up with innovative delivery methods is the biggest challenge facing MBA programs around the world, according to a recent survey of business school representatives. Produced by … [Read more...]