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The Thomassons’ $100 million gift is the largest from individuals in IU history. Photo courtesy of Jeff and Benita Thomasson Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is getting a $100 million infusion and a new umbrella brand for its graduate programs, thanks to a gift from alumni Jeffrey H. and Benita L. Thomasson. The gift,…

The move to ESCP brings Thomas Jeanjean from an academia-adjacent role to working within an institution again. “I truly do not buy that education is no longer a good investment. That’s complete nonsense and it’s completely irresponsible to give this advice to young people.” Photo by David Atlan for ESCP “It’s very intense,” says Thomas…

Harvard Business School has announced the end of its iconic FIELD capstone as a first-year requirement Harvard Business School is ending its long-running first-year global capstone requirement, telling incoming MBA students on September 9 that the travel-based course will no longer be part of the MBA program’s Required Curriculum starting with the Class of 2028…

The $200,000 MBA is no longer an outlier among the country’s elite business schools (and it hasn’t been for a while). According to Poets&Quants’ cost estimates of the top 30 MBA programs in the U.S., 25 — more than 83% — now carry a two-year price tag above $200,000. That’s up from 22 schools based…

If the question is which MBA programs produce the most founders over the last decade, the answer is the same as last year. And the year before that. Harvard Business School again topped PitchBook’s annual ranking of MBA programs for producing venture-backed entrepreneurs, this time with 2,444 alumni founders creating 2,235 companies. That’s 538 more…

  Though Legacy GMAT scores remain valid through 2028, the transition to the shorter, redesigned GMAT is well underway. For the Class of 2027, students submitting the new GMAT Focus outnumbered those submitting the old version (officially the 10th Edition) at 45 of 47 top-ranked U.S. business schools with comparable data. A year earlier, the…

University of Maryland – courtesy photo The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will begin offering a one-year, full-time MBA in the summer of 2027. It’s the latest business school to embrace a shorter, AI-focused format as more programs rethink the traditional two-year model. The executive overseeing the redesign tells Poets&Quants that…

Chicago Booth Dean Madhav Rajan has been reappointed to a third term Madhav Rajan has been reappointed to a third term as dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the school announced Tuesday (September 1). The move keeps Rajan atop one of the world’s leading business schools for a ninth year –…

The Main Building and Basilica of the Sacred Heart at sunset. Photo by Michael Caterina/University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business has made a deliberate decision about its full-time MBA. It is getting smaller. Over the past several admissions cycles, Mendoza has reduced the size of its MBA program…

Less than a decade ago, getting into a top U.S. business school practically required sitting for the GMAT, the numbers-heavy gatekeeper that generations of non-quant applicants learned to dread. That’s officially changing, even at the most elite programs, according to an eight-year analysis from Poets&Quants. Among the five M7 schools with comparable GRE data going…