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Wharton students walk along Locust Walk at the University of Pennsylvania. The school has enrolled 888 MBA students this fall, its biggest class in four years The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has released its MBA Class of 2027 profile, and the picture is one of mixed momentum. Applications are up. Test scores are strong.…

Wharton EMBA students on the school’s Philadelphia campus in 2019. Some current students are voicing concerns about a decline in academic quality Editor’s note: Second of two articles. Read the first: ‘We’re Paying A Quarter Of A Million Dollars To Get Graded By AI’: Wharton EMBA Students Speak Out The program promises academic excellence. The…

The Trump administration has proposed a fundamental change to how H‑1B visas are allocated, replacing the existing random lottery with a weighted selection system based on wage levels.  According to the proposal published Tuesday (September 23) in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, registrants with higher offered wages would receive better…

Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business. Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business is adding an online professional MBA to its portfolio. Early action application deadline is October 13 with a Round 1 deadline of January 5, 2026.  Total cost will be $63,000, pending board approval, and the first cohort will begin next fall.…

MIT Sloan joined Wharton at the top of the 2026 U.S. News ranking of best undergraduate business schools There’s a new top business school in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report — or should we say, there are now two top schools. MIT Sloan School of Management climbed into a tie…

A new analysis from Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev reveals a major gap between traditional academic rankings and real-world entrepreneurial outcomes — and no school illustrates that gap better than the one Strebulaev calls home. Stanford ranks No. 1 in the United States for producing unicorn founders, with 296 alumni behind privately held startups valued at…

Students in the elite Wharton EMBA program say they are being graded by AI. “There’s a difference between constructive AI integration and invisible automation,” one student says. “Right now, it’s the latter” Editor’s note: First of two articles. The second will be published Tuesday, September 23. It started with a pattern. Writing assignments came back…

In a sweeping move that has stunned employers, immigrants, and universities alike, President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a $100,000 annual fee on H‑1B visa applications — an extraordinary escalation in costs for companies seeking to hire high-skilled foreign talent. The new rule, which takes effect September 21, 2025, also prohibits entry of…

Arthur Fordham of AcouBatt pitches their “battery listening” startup at the INNOVA Europe 2025 Grand Finale at ESMT Berlin, as teammate Chris Xu (at right) looks on. The duo won the Rising Stars category and €20,000 for their technology that uses acoustic sensors and machine learning to hear what batteries are saying to help manufacturers…

At Cornell, a student-authored diversity memo has become the latest flashpoint in the national debate over DEI and career access A set of peer-driven guidelines urging some MBA students at Cornell University to reconsider attending identity-based recruiting conferences has sparked campus debate — and, potentially, national controversy. What began as an internal message from the…