MBA ニュース：ダートマス大学 経営学大学院/ Dartmouth Tuck New Immersive Global Experience Requirement

From fall 2015 Tuck School of Business students must spend a country new to them.  

The Tuck Global Insight Requirement will be mandatory for all members of the Class of 2017 and beyond – part of an effort by the school to ensure that a Tuck education includes global immersion, which the school deems essential in today’s business environment.

Students will choose between several immersive courses. 

• Each credit-bearing course will be taught by a member Tuck faculty. It will include pre-travel orientation, an immersive experience in a country new to the student and reflection. 
• Two current classes – OnSite Global Consulting, a global first-year project, and Global Insight Expeditions – will satisfy the requirement.

According to the school, global immersion is already a key part of the Tuck experience for many students. The new requirement will simply extend it to all MBA candidates. Of the Class of 2014, almost 67 percent reporting spending time in a country new to them during their time at Tuck.

Click here for more about Tuck’s Global Insight Requirement.

For MBAs, Job Hunting Comes Before Class

Traditional on-campus recruiting is no longer enough. Companies are looking for more pre-screened candidates and students are expressing interest in employers with small HR functions and limited recruiting resources.The MBA job hunt now begins well before students even arrive on campus for orientation.

Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business reported a 65% increase in the number of tech firms hiring its MBAs this spring.

This year University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business plans to conduct “career kickoff” meetings—45-60 minute advising sessions covering the job-search process and available resources—with two-thirds of its incoming first-year class by the end of the week. That school’s new-student orientation begins Aug. 18.

The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business has added four days of career services programming to its orientation, including networking lunches, resume reviews and alumni panels on consulting, corporate finance, marketing and other job functions.

“Students think they have two years to explore what they want to do next,” says Damian Zikakis, director of career services at Ross. “In fact, they have like two days.”

For more information please see the Wall Street Journal story.