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Foreign Graduate Students Say ‘No Thanks’ to U.S. MBA Programs
27 March 09 11:44 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Concerned about future job prospects, international graduate students are turning down offers from prominent American business schools and instead choosing to pursue graduate programs outside the United States. Read More...

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GMAT Cheating Scandal Causes Students to Sweat Their Future
02 July 08 04:37 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Over 6,000 MBA students have been implicated in a huge cheating scandal involving the website Scoretop which illegally provided “live” prep questions to students taking their Graduate Management Admission Test , or GMAT — the test that many MBA programs Read More...

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Commencement Speakers to Remain Upbeat Despite Slowed Economy
01 May 08 02:36 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

This year’s MBA graduates will be seeing a sluggish economy and perhaps even bleak job prospects. Yet many high-profile business leaders returning to their alma maters as commencement speakers are expected to remain upbeat in their remarks to students, Read More...

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MBAs Want to “Make a Difference,” but Say Pay Is More Important
23 April 08 04:46 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Today’s MBA students aren’t just out for money — 25 percent of them claim they’re looking for a job that will allow them to impact or contribute to society, writes Kelly Bronk of BusinessWeek about a recent survey by The Aspen Institute (“ The Do-Good Read More...

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Bear Stearns Takeover Leaves Business-School Students Scrambling
14 April 08 08:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

BearStearns CEO, Jimmy Cayne, seems to have been the only former Stearns employee to make it out of the JPMorgan Chase buyout relatively unscathed — at least in non-CEO terms — walking away with $61.3 million in sold shares. Even though, in his own high-priced Read More...

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By the Numbers: Top 10 Undergraduate Business Schools
11 April 08 07:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Are you a future MBA who sees yourself building the next Trump–like empire or heading up the new 21 st -century tech giant that will finally unseat Microsoft? If you’re planning on joining the 20 percent of college students who major in business and you’re Read More...

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