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The BSchools.org blog helps online MBA students choose the right business school and make the most out of life beyond graduation. Readers can learn about what to expect when pursuing an online business degree, including information about the application process, exceptional professors leading programs, and MBA alternatives. Additionally, there are detailed guides to scholarships, internship opportunities (paid and unpaid), conferences, careers, and prospective salaries, as well as features about the ever-changing business landscape.
Check back regularly for interviews with degree program administrators and tips for successful applications, among other resources.
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Combatting a Dire Shortage of Accountants, EY Boosts Starting Salaries
January 16, 2025America’s accounting industry now faces its most dire staffing crisis in its history. And because the mainstream media has mostly ignored this story, few Americans outside Wall Street and the financial community have heard about this crisis or how it could affect them.
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Guide to MBA Scholarships for 2025
December 27, 2024Given that higher education has now become the second-largest expense for an individual in their lifetime, only topped by buying a home, it’s no wonder why so many students now look to scholarships and fellowships for help. Fortunately, research compiled for our profiles below revealed many scholarships that can help defray the cost of earning an MBA.
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Is Educational Testing Service (ETS) Headed for Bankruptcy? (Part 2)
December 3, 2024As if the news wasn’t bad enough for testing services like GMAC and ETS, new factors are now emerging that could intensify that industry’s “perfect storm” of adversity into a “perfect hurricane.”
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The Collapse in Demand for Standardized MBA Admissions Tests (Part 1)
November 22, 2024Educational Testing Service, the besieged administrator of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), now faces the worst financial crisis in the company’s 77-year history. The widespread collapse in the demand for standardized testing due to the rise of test-optional and test-free policies at colleges and graduate schools across America has placed the testing industry under unparalleled pressure.
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MBA Salary Guide: Starting Salaries & Highest Paying MBA Concentrations (2024-2025)
November 20, 2024Specializations amount to critical choices in an MBA student’s career. They permit students to immediately deliver highly marketable skills to an employer upon graduation, the value for which most employers will gladly pay handsome salaries.
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Applications No Longer Required by Online MBA Program at Northeastern University
November 14, 2024To improve accessibility by potential students, Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business announced it has launched a pioneering approach to admissions for its fall 2024 courses. The business school has introduced a disruptive new option, performance-based admissions (PBA), for two graduate programs. They include the school’s online MBA degree (OMBA) and its four-month online graduate certificate in business administration (OGCBA).
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Strong MBA Recruiting On the Way, Predicts New GMAC Poll
October 29, 2024Certainly, the 2023 recruiting season wasn’t exactly the best for MBA hiring in recent years. But now, a new survey reports optimistic projections that predict strong hiring. That’s largely because employer confidence in graduate management education (GME) and its capacity to prepare business school graduates for success has achieved new heights since the pandemic.
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The Future of the MBA is Online, Says New Survey
October 24, 2024Learn about the rapidly changing preferences of MBA and specialized business master’s degree students, plus the critical need for business schools to adapt to a dynamic, competitive, and technology-driven target market.
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Best Graduate Business Degrees of 2024-2025
October 17, 2024According to the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), specialized master’s degrees in business have gained ground, particularly among younger, less experienced candidates.
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List of MBA Conferences for 2024-2025
October 14, 2024MBA fairs or conferences are all about personal connections. School gatekeepers travel to these events to meet well-qualified applicants. Moreover, the savviest candidates understand that connecting in a personal way with a school's admissions team can award those applicants with their most critical advantage in the admissions process: a great lasting impression.
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Online MBA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2024-2025)
September 11, 2024These online programs ranked by affordability can be a viable alternative to more expensive programs while still receiving an excellent education and providing the flexibility working professionals need to balance work, family, and higher education demands.
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How Apple’s Web Eraser Could Impact Business Education Coverage
August 7, 2024Apple made plenty of news during its June 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference. The biggest story was the firm’s push into artificial intelligence support for many of its software applications, branded as “Apple Intelligence.” The company also announced a new partnership with OpenAI that will allow users to tap into ChatGPT directly through Siri and through many of the other Apple apps instead of the current method that routes all access to the chatbot through a web browser.
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One-year MBA Programs: Update on the Market’s Changing Dynamics
May 1, 2024During just the past few months, stories started to appear in the business press about changing market dynamics driving increasing enrollments in one-year MBA degree programs. Here at BSchools, we’ve covered one-year online programs since our launch in 2018, mainly in the context of “accelerated” MBA degrees offered by United States business schools.
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Boeing’s Latest Crisis: MBA Professors Weigh In
April 11, 2024Once again, another management crisis at Boeing is the hottest business story in the United States. Following the January 2024 blowout of a door plug on a new 737 jetliner carrying 177 passengers and crew at 16,000 feet over Portland, a top management shakeout at Boeing grabbed headlines late in March.
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MBA Applicants Celebrate: Drop in Applications Reduces Competition
February 6, 2024A new survey from GMAC, the Graduate Management Admissions Council, reported that graduate business school applications have fallen significantly for the second year in a row. This is terrific news for potential MBA applicants because it means less competition for the prized seats in classes at better business schools.