

Business Schools Are Back (bloomberg.com) 23
An anonymous reader shares a report: After years of decline, the number of applications to the country's two-year MBA programs rebounded in 2024 -- rising 19%, according to a survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council. The pandemic saw a blossoming of new ways to deliver an MBA, but tradition has reasserted itself: The biggest growth last year was in conventional two-year and part-time programs.
As in recent years, the great majority of student demand came from overseas, but applications from the US rose as well. While the two-year class graduating this spring included record levels of international students at many institutions, most of the top 20 schools as ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek welcomed classes last fall with a reduced international presence. Given the Trump administration's hostility to immigration, the graduating class of 2025 could prove to be the high-water mark for international MBA students in the US for at least the near future.
As in recent years, the great majority of student demand came from overseas, but applications from the US rose as well. While the two-year class graduating this spring included record levels of international students at many institutions, most of the top 20 schools as ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek welcomed classes last fall with a reduced international presence. Given the Trump administration's hostility to immigration, the graduating class of 2025 could prove to be the high-water mark for international MBA students in the US for at least the near future.
This more than anything else (Score:5, Insightful)
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How to create a recession: (Score:3)
Hire a bunch of dumbass MBAs that will cut so many jobs that halts productivity and nearly tanks the company and be sure to do that at every company. But hey, profits will be way up for a single quarter! Fools do not learn from their mistakes.
as sanity buffers (Score:4, Interesting)
I find MBA's are useful when they protect techies from the BS of other MBA's. More people are like Ferengis than Vulcans, and Ferengis understand other Ferengis more than most Vulcans do.
So as buffers between bravado and logic, MBA's can be the best people for the job: they know the lingo and mantra of the other Ferengis.
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That's great and all, but if we got rid of the MBAs wouldn't that mean we don't need the other MBAs to protect us from the idiocy of the aforementioned MBAs. If you'd like you can pay me to not burn down your house. I'd certainly appreciate both the money and gratitude that you'd show me for my services.
It's one of the ways MBAs tend to breed like rabbits in any company they start to infest. Every department head starts thinking they need an MBA "on their side" to fight off the other department adjacent MBAs and pretty soon you've got "project managers" and "team co-leads" scattered throughout the company that are actually MBAs. They're a self-sustaining parasite once they infest a company, and if they aren't recognized as such and stopped quickly, they soon become the dominant life-form within the managem
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That's what killed Yahoo, they had like 10 PHB's per one Dilbert.
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When your leadership is all MBAs you get Boeing.
When your leadership is no MBAs you get OpenAI.
Neither is desirable.
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Trump's golden age (Score:2, Funny)
We're in a golden age. Trust me.
Re: Trump's golden age (Score:2)
https://www.foxnews.com/politi... [foxnews.com]
How Many Foreign Students Will Accept? (Score:2)
Never thought I'd see the day Chinese Universities seemed safer...
https://www.irishtimes.com/wor... [irishtimes.com]
Difference between the US and China (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, to be fair, ... (Score:3)
... China has (way) more of just about everything.
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Lol nice
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China graduates more STEM than all the USA college graduates combined. They are working to improve quality while we don't adopt hardly anything proven to improve things. On top of that, there is a limit to how far one can improve without human evolution and we may have peaked as the top levels everywhere converge upon a relative rounding error. Like the Olympics where it's ridiculous how close the everything gets and how picky one has to be to find the best one; who can win randomly due to a long list of
in defense of the MBA (Score:3)
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So can a law degree! But that doesn't stop 90% of them from enshitification of the world. MBA is similar.
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90% of everyone is crap
well every one knows America was great (Score:3)