MBA 留学 ニュース: UCLA アンダーソン・スクール Receives $100 Million

UCLA's Anderson School of Management will receive $100-million donation from the widow of its namesake, businessman John Anderson.

Marion Anderson made the donation as the UCLA business school has become mainly self-supporting; it no longer receives state funds for master's degree programs and relies more heavily on donors.

The gift will be split: $60 million will establish an endowment for financial aid, faculty stipends and research, and the remaining $40 million will go toward about half the cost of a new building projected to be built next door to the current complex.

It is important to have the best faculty we can possibly have and to give our students the best education they can have.

- Marion Anderson

The Anderson gift, among the largest donations in UCLA history, will also help with UCLA's campaign to raise $4.2 billion by 2019, the centennial of the university's founding. With the new gift, UCLA has received about $1.9 billion in donations and pledges.

For more information see the article in the LA Times 

MBA 留学 ニュース：コロンビア大学ビジネススクール 2016-17 締め切り/ Essays

Don’t worry—if you’re applying to Harvard Business School (HBS) in Round 3, you haven’t missed the deadline. It’s next week, May 13th. But the school’s admissions committee is already thinking about the Class of 2018, according to a recent post by Director of Admissions Dee Leopold.
If you are a prospective applicant also thinking about the Class of 2018 at HBS, some words of advice from Leopold: “I would encourage any potential Round One applicant who would like to see the case method in action to come now since class visits in the fall don’t begin until after the September deadline.” Class visits continue through mid-May, and there is still sign up availability, she notes.
The schedule for on-campus information sessions will change to every Monday and Friday at 2 p.m. beginning on May 8th. These sessions, conducted by members of the admissions team, do not require advance notice. Campus tours will also be offered, beginning on May 8th, at 1:15 p.m. every Monday and Friday. No advance notice is required for these either.
For those of you dying to get started on your essays, HBS will post next season’s questions on May 15th. Recommender questions will post the same day. The complete application will go live in mid-June, and the Round One application deadline will be September 9th.
Learn more about scheduling a class visit at HBS.

MBA 留学 ニュース：コロンビア大学ビジネススクール 2016-17 締め切り/ Essays

Columbia Business School has announced its deadlines for the 2016-17 for its accelerated January term (students forego a summer internship and study for 16 straight months beginning in January) and its early decision round will be October 7. The regular decision deadline will be April 13.

Columbia Business School students may enroll in either August or January. The two paths, each comprised of four terms, merge in the fall of the second year to complete electives as a single class.
The paths are identical in terms of competitiveness of admissions, academic rigor, and student resources, but they differ in terms of timing and the opportunity to complete a summer internship.

CBS Essays

Essay 1: Why MBA (500 words)
Essay 2: How you will take advantage of being “at the very center of business." 250 words.

For more information, please see the CBS Application website

MBA 留学 ニュース：ウォートン・スクール 2016-17 締め切り

Wharton has released deadlines for 2016-17
Round 1: September 29
Decision: December 17
Round 2: January 5
Decision: March 29
Round 3: March 30
Decision: May 3rd.

The advice from Wharton is to apply early if possible.

“The first two rounds have no significant difference in the level of rigor; the third round is more competitive, as we will have already selected a good portion of the class.”

For more information, please see Wharton's Admissions website.

MBA 留学 ニュース：スタンフォード大学ビジネススクール2016-17 締め切り

Stanford Graduate School of Business  has announced 2016-17 deadlines and
essay questions
Stanford Deadlines
Round 1: September 22 (nine days earlier than last year than this year)
Decision notification:  December 9.
Round 2: January 12
Decision notification:  March 30th.
Round 3: April 5
Decision notification: May 11

Essay Questions
Unchanged but with an increased word count to 1,150.
What Matters Most: 750 words
Why Stanford:  400 words
The school strongly advises applicants to apply in R1.

For more details see the Stanford GSB Admissions website

MBA 留学 ニュース： Columbia Business School Dean Criticises B-School Rankings Methodology

Columbia Business School (CBS) Dean Glenn Hubbard has questioned MBA school rankings. He believes an applicant’s individual needs should outrank any number affixed to a school in the many rankings that abound.

The quality of a business school can be measured by two simple metrics, input and output. By input he means applications, specifically how many applications a school gets and whether application volume is trending up or down. 

As for output, the second critical metric is job offers and salary levels of graduates. 

In this respect, the aggregate difference between schools in the top five or 10 can be slight. That means that, while rankings matter, if you are thinking about applying to business school, the question is whether the rankings matter for you. 

Hubbard called it human nature to apply to a school because it gets ranked highly, likening it to seeing a movie or buying a book after it wins an award. “We want to experience the best,” he wrote. But regardless of ranking, depending on your own needs and goals, some schools will be better for you individually than others. “You owe it to yourself to do your homework on a school’s academic curriculum, career management efforts, alumni network, and ability to put you in front of leaders who are shaping business today.”

For more information see “Do B-School Rankings Really Matter?”

MBA 留学 ニュース： IE Ties Up with Antai College

IE Business School will offer dual degrees to students of Antai College of Economics and Management.

Antai College, a leading business school in China and part of Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University, hold accreditation from each EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. 

Antai College Dean Lin Zhou joined IE Dean Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño for a signing ceremony at IE’s campus in Madrid on March 26th.

Students in IE Business School’s International MBA program can take a dual degree program with the Antai College of Economics and Management and vice versa. A dual-degree program is also available students in IE’s Master in Management and Antai’s Master in International Business program. In either instance, students will be able to complete both degree titles in two years, instead of the three years it would take to complete the degrees separately.

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has also launched a new Asia Initiative at Darden, to include opening a new office in Shanghai and partnering with Antai College of Economics and Management on an upcoming investing summit.

IESE Business School partnered with the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) to launch a new joint program targeting senior business leaders whose work crosses international borders. 

Last fall, CIEBS partnered with the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University to launch a new dual Master of Management in Hospitality (MMH) and MBA degree program and the NYU Stern School of Business Volatility Institute opened an extension at NYU Shanghai.

IE Business School’s new dual-degree program with Antai College of Economics and Management.