Deans Digest: June 2009

Mapping Strategies with Data from Two New GMAC Surveys

In contrast to the turmoil in world financial markets, recent data from GMAC show that the fundamentals for graduate management education remain strong. In recent surveys of recruiters and graduates, both groups place a high value on the MBA. Coupled with findings about the skills that students say they need and employers say they want, the survey results can help leaders in graduate management education map strategies for the future.

Partnership with HBCU Business Schools to Boost Diverse Applicant Pool

While the number of African American students taking the GMAT exam has doubled in the past decade, many are still not scoring at the level that will help them gain admission to graduate business education programs.

DATA TO GO: Needs Well Met—Employers, Students Satisfied with the MBA

And the GMAC surveys say: 91 percent of MBA grads and 98 percent of employers are satisfied, respectively, that their degree is a good to outstanding value and with the quality of their MBA employees.

Will the real MBA please stand up?

Are holders of an MBA degree responsible for the global financial crisis, interested only in making money, and devoid of ethics and a sense of social responsibility?

More Than 200 Programs Now Recognize Pearson Test of English

Add the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University to the growing list of universities that recognize the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic).

Biz Briefs

What's going on in the Graduate Management Education Industry?

2009 Publication Calendar

Deans Digest is published bimonthly by the GMAC Communications Department. Look for upcoming issues on...