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After roaring back a year earlier, applications to the M7 reached a plateau for the class that entered in fall 2025. The seven elite U.S. business schools — the so-called “Magnificent Seven” — received 48,829 applications for the MBA Class of 2027, an increase of just 0.6% after applications surged 22% in the previous cycle.…

USC Marshall School of Business Dean Geoffrey Garrett, who has said he will step down this month after a turbulent start to his second term When Geoffrey Garrett announced his plan to step down as dean of USC’s Marshall School of Business in June, USC characterized it as an orderly leadership transition – Garrett would…

After a couple of sluggish years, more candidates applied to U.S. MBA programs in fall 2025 than in the previous two admission cycles. Two years ago, U.S. MBA programs were navigating a noted drop in demand, with lower applications for two straight cycles. Of all the talk of AI, economic uncertainty, and fewer international students…

What a difference two years can make! In 2024, Gem Nwannem was working in product marketing for small tech firms. After starting a hybrid MBA at the University of Washington’s Foster School, Nwannem landed the opportunity of a lifetime. Now a senior product manager at Amazon Shipping, Nwannem oversees product rollouts and messaging across the…

Startup Wise Guys, an early-stage accelerator in which Estonian Business School holds an ownership stake, is part of EBS’s larger entrepreneurship network in Tallinn. Across Europe, business schools are leaning into startup hubs, venture studios and founder pipelines to help students create opportunity in a changing job market. Timmu Tõke arrived at Estonian Business School (EBS) in 2013 with a clear…

Adhira Tippur built an AI intake platform to streamline work in her mom’s dental clinic – with huge success. That led to her co-founding Kairos Health after she joined Rice University’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Courtesy photo You’ve likely heard some version of this before: across the country, healthcare practices are straining under administrative overload, staffing shortages,…

The University of San Francisco’s hilltop campus has weathered years of enrollment pressure and financial strain — and emerged with one of the most celebrated accreditation reviews in the school’s history. Courtesy photos The exit meeting is the moment at the end of a multi-day site visit when AACSB International reviewers – accreditors who set…

Bunge with client Alzana Jakupovic. Courtesy photo For many MBA programs, experiential learning is a selling point. In St. Louis, Missouri at Washington University’s Olin Business School, experiential learning is a defining part of their student experience. Rather than experiencing simulated business cases or hypothetical consulting exercises, students actually work through real challenges for global…

Michelle Sisto, director of the EDHEC AI Centre, opens a London panel on AI and the future of work with a keynote on how AI is already reshaping human cognition. In an amphitheater at EDHEC Business School in France, 350 students sat almost in silence, writing out their homework for a lesson about artificial intelligence.…

London Business School’s Regent’s Park campus. The school’s North Building at Sussex Place will be renamed the David and Molly Pyott Building after a new £25 million gift supporting MBA scholarships. Courtesy photo The London Business School announced today a £25 million gift, one of the largest in school history, to rename its North Building at Sussex Place and fund scholarships to attract top…