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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…

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…

  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…

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…

Oh, to be a fly on the wall during one of Franc Bogovic’s and Moustafa El-Baqqaly’s conversations.  Bogovic, a Belgian impact investor, and El-Baqqaly, a London-based capital-markets banker, cite their discussions while studying on the Oxford Executive MBA as being the inspiration to found Aquitara, an impact fund with the goal of undoing the damage of Agent Orange…

Want to build a startup while earning your MBA? Look beyond the entrepreneurship courses to the actual founder resources available at your target business schools.   TIME magazine’s inaugural ranking of America’s 80 Best Incubators and Accelerators, released last week, is a good place to start. Universities are all over the list. Twenty-one of the 80, including five in the…

Getting into the Wharton School is an achievement most families would celebrate for a lifetime. The Sahani’s did it four times in four years. Navya, Nirav, Dhwanikta, and Vatsal hold nine offers between them from the Wharton School, Columbia Business School, and MIT Sloan, eight of those won through deferred admission while they were still…