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MBA in Europe – increase in popularity
Barbara Barkhausen - 03-08-2011
The dominance of the U.S. business schools is diminishing the more popular European business schools become. A new study by GMAC, which conducts the General Management Admissions Test, shows that 11 per cent of all GMAT score reports went to European business schools in 2009/2010 (July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010), up from a 7.5 per cent share in 2006.
GMAT: Big makeover under way
Barbara Bierach - 09-01-2010
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) - the MBA admissions exam - is about to undergo its biggest makeover in more than a decade, reports BusinessWeek. Starting in 2012, aspiring business school applicants will take the so-called Next Generation GMAT, which will include a new section on integrated reasoning, in which test takers will analyze data from multiple sources in order to draw conclusions.
More jobs in 2010 – and a starting salary just short of 80,000 US-Dollar
Barbara Bierach - 02-16-2011
The business school class of 2010 fared better on the job market than the class of 2009. This is the conclusion of the Alumni Perspectives Survey that The Graduate Management Admission Council published these days. A recovering economy combined with more creative job search strategies and a willingness to expand their search criteria have helped the business school class of 2010: Out of 824 recent alumni from the class of 2010 surveyed in September, 88 percent were employed, up four percentage points from the class of 2009, surveyed a year before.