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The number of European citizens taking the GMAT is on the rise, and these individuals are sending their scores to management education programs in Europe–not America–according to an analysis of GMAT testing trends released Wednesday by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

Earlier this week, a piece in the New York Times revealed that the job market seems to be stabilizing for business school students. “There’s reason for students to be optimistic,” says Tracy Handler, a spokeswoman for the MBA Career Services Council, an association of business school career advisers.

Classroom demographics will undergo a noticeable shift as world economic and population trends, and GMAT volume data, seem to have permanently altered the student pipelines for B-school programs.

Three professors from the Darden School of Business have joined forces to offer an unusual course that they hope will help change how we approach the seemingly intractable problem of poverty.

Last week, The Economist online produced a special report on the increasingly popular phenonemon that is distant-learning business education.

With recruiter visits to campus down an estimated 20% in the last year, business schools have gotten creative when it comes to putting students in contact with potential employers.

Andrew Michael Spence, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, will join the faculty of New York University Stern School of Business as Professor of Economics effective September 1, 2010, the school announced Monday.

Cambridge Judge Business School standing handsomely in the snow on TwitpicJames Barker, MBA admissions coordinator for University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, offered four application tips via Twitter this week.