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The MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance, a global association of business schools and employers, recently launched standards that guide schools in the collection and analysis of employment information for specialty master’s and part-time MBA students. 

Overall, recent alumni are more likely than earlier alumni to report studying abroad and traveling internationally as a part of their business school experience, according to new findings from the 2018 Alumni Perspectives Survey.

Based on current trends and future forecasts, here are some of the trends that will dominate the business school industry in the next couple of years.

Consider these five steps for adding clarity to your goals.

Some goals, such as losing weight or building up a savings account, are easy to measure. Just hop on the scale or check your latest bank statement to see where you stand. Others, such as increasing your time on a particular task or being more proactive in your work, are tougher to define and achieve, but these five steps should help you approach goal setting more successfully.

University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business are the latest business schools to begin accepting the Executive Assessment for its executive MBA program as an alternative to the GMAT® exam.

Join us on Wednesday, February 28, to learn from UT Austin McCombs School of Business and BarkleyREI on how they built a successful multi-channel campaign, from start to finish.

In this discussion, you’ll discover how to use GMASS leads in your recruiting and marketing campaigns and see examples of how these schools leveraged these leads in their digital marketing strategies, social media, and how they measured and defined ROI.

Overall, the vast majority of business school alumni are employed, whether for a company (79%) or as self-employed entrepreneurs (10%), according to new findings from the 2018 Alumni Perspectives Survey, which solicited responses from 10,882 alumni worldwide representing 274 institutions and a wide variety of program types. 

Diversity of backgrounds and perspectives adds to the business school classroom experience. In the words of Jindal School of Management professor Sheen S. Levine and David Stark of Columbia University in a December 2015 New York Times op-ed: “Diversity improves the way people think. By disrupting conformity, racial and ethnicity diversity prompts people to scrutinize facts, think more deeply and develop their own opinions.”

Pre-experience business master’s programs are an increasingly big part of global graduate management education. With each passing year, more business schools expand their program portfolios to include more of these programs, and a growing share of candidates tell GMAC Research that they are considering applying to them.

Last week GMAC Research hosted our annual Research Highlights webinar, in which we summarized our major research findings from 2017 and discussed what it all means for 2018.