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Monday, August 2, 2004
THE
BATTALliI
MBA program
numbers dow
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By Justin Pope
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Is business school losing its
buzz? After a golden era for the
MBA degree, new figures show
demand for the traditional, two-
year master’s of business admin
istration program is slumping.
More than three-quarters of
programs responding to a recent
Graduate Management Admission
Council survey reported their
applications declined last year.
More remarkably, 41 percent
reported their applications were
down more than 20 percent.
The GMAC, a business
schools organization, thinks total
applications
to business
schools were
flat or down
only slightly.
But that figure
can be mislead
ing because
students can
apply to many
schools.
A better
indication of
student inter
est may be the
GMAT, the
standardized
test for busi
ness school
admission.
As of June
30, 7 percent
fewer GMAT
tests had been
taken com
pared to last
year, and the
figure is down
more than 25
percent com
pared to the
record year of
2002.
The good
news for business
Internet wave. They al
ished during the bust, asi
people viewed business;
as an agreeable way to s
the economic downturn i
return to the job market mj
better credential.
Now, the GMAC
much of the decline in i
est to the improving
Daphne Atkinson, Gfo
vice president of industryb
tions, said interest isreturr
historical norms, and peoplrj
more likely to be choosinfj
MBA because it will
because they can’t findajotj
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the pipeline driven by somej
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degrees declining
New figures show the demand
for the traditional, two-year
master’s of business
administration programs is down.
in the wall
a meltdo»t|
the eco
she said.
Graduate Management
Admission Test (GMAT)
Worldwide June figures for
standardized testing for
business school admission
140,000
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other
lenges. Cl
numbers
down
among ft
students
U.S. test-tij
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restrictions
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dims,
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SOURCE: Graduate Management
Admission Council
AP
schools is
that interest in their often more-
profitable executive MBA
degrees _ shorter programs for
older students who continue
working _ is strong. More than
half of those programs reported
an increase in applications.
Still, two-year MBA pro
grams remain the primary
focus of many business schools.
Wharton and Harvard may never
have to worry about tilling class
rooms, but other schools that saw
MBA programs as a cash cow
and rushed to grow them might.
During the 1990s, busi
ness schools were hot as many
sought training to ride the
American™ Neuber
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not just lie final p
programs, it md the <
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ly, it may sliend on
internatH'limsof th
students
finding
able alternatives overseas, ilirel
ening America’s position asi
leader in management educate
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over the last decade places
INSEAD (with campuses
France and Singapore),Lot
Business School, ESADE
Spain have become much
part of the places you wt
consider going to get an
said Jeffrey Pfeffer. a profes
at Stanford’s Graduate Set
of Business. Atkinson
real change is that Chinese
Indian students are finding
ter job options, and nowei
quality MBA programs,ini
home countries.
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