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The BSchools.org blog helps online MBA students choose the right business school and make the most out of life beyond graduation. Readers can learn about what to expect when pursuing an online business degree, including information about the application process, exceptional professors leading programs, and MBA alternatives. Additionally, there are detailed guides to scholarships, internship opportunities (paid and unpaid), conferences, careers, and prospective salaries, as well as features about the ever-changing business landscape.
Check back regularly for interviews with degree program administrators and tips for successful applications, among other resources.
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The FDIC Meeting That Blew Up the Internet
April 22, 2025Much of what the committee discussed during that FDIC meeting concerned a controversial and relatively new resolution technique known as a “bail-in” that’s unfamiliar to most of us, including many knowledgeable MBA students and alumni. In short, a bail-in provides a mechanism where a struggling financial institution’s own creditors rescue that firm.
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Tuition Reimbursement: What MBA Applicants and Students Need to Know
April 18, 2025With the cost of the world’s best online MBA program now over a quarter of a million dollars, anyone who considers pursuing this degree might want to first look for a job with a company that offers a tuition reimbursement program. A benefit like this one can save an MBA student thousands of dollars. During the Great Resignation era, an increasing number of employers have started offering expanded tuition assistance programs as a perk to attract and retain top talent.
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MiM Degrees: Should MBA Candidates Apply to Them Instead?
April 10, 2025Should potential MBA applicants consider an MiM instead? Yes, some should. There have always been candidates who applied to MBA programs even though they were never good matches for those programs. But now, many of those applicants have options that would serve their career objectives more effectively.
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How to Write a Great MBA Personal Statement
March 28, 2025For many candidates, writing essays for business school applications can feel intimidating because of the slim margin for error. Admissions officers at highly selective business schools look for justifications to reject candidates, and when they cannot find those justifications in work experience, undergraduate grades, or admissions test scores, they search for them in application essays.
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List of MBA Associations and Organizations (2025)
March 14, 2025Students should not limit themselves by relying exclusively on their school’s clubs for networking opportunities. Compelling arguments exist for joining local chapters of global, national, and regional professional organizations while students are still in business school.
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List of Paid MBA Internships in Technology, Finance, and Consulting (2025)
February 21, 2025For full-time business school students, summer internships are crucial. They provide valuable work experience and can function as trial periods for employers considering new hires after their graduation. In fact, some MBA employers only offer full-time jobs to their former interns.
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MBA Alternatives: Most Popular Business Books
February 18, 2025For those interested in business administration but who do not want to enroll in a graduate or undergraduate business program, there are several alternatives. One is reading books written by some of the world's most successful businessmen and women.
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Best Business Schools for Environmentalists (2025)
February 7, 2025Five business schools, in particular, are outstanding for environmentalists: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT Sloan School of Management, University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business, Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, and the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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Combatting a Dire Shortage of Accountants, EY Boosts Starting Salaries
January 16, 2025America’s accounting industry now faces its most dire staffing crisis in its history. And because the mainstream media has mostly ignored this story, few Americans outside Wall Street and the financial community have heard about this crisis or how it could affect them.
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Guide to MBA Scholarships for 2025
December 27, 2024Given that higher education has now become the second-largest expense for an individual in their lifetime, only topped by buying a home, it’s no wonder why so many students now look to scholarships and fellowships for help. Fortunately, research compiled for our profiles below revealed many scholarships that can help defray the cost of earning an MBA.
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Is Educational Testing Service (ETS) Headed for Bankruptcy? (Part 2)
December 3, 2024As if the news wasn’t bad enough for testing services like GMAC and ETS, new factors are now emerging that could intensify that industry’s “perfect storm” of adversity into a “perfect hurricane.”
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The Collapse in Demand for Standardized MBA Admissions Tests (Part 1)
November 22, 2024Educational Testing Service, the besieged administrator of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), now faces the worst financial crisis in the company’s 77-year history. The widespread collapse in the demand for standardized testing due to the rise of test-optional and test-free policies at colleges and graduate schools across America has placed the testing industry under unparalleled pressure.
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MBA Salary Guide: Starting Salaries & Highest Paying MBA Concentrations (2024-2025)
November 20, 2024Specializations amount to critical choices in an MBA student’s career. They permit students to immediately deliver highly marketable skills to an employer upon graduation, the value for which most employers will gladly pay handsome salaries.
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Applications No Longer Required by Online MBA Program at Northeastern University
November 14, 2024To improve accessibility by potential students, Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business announced it has launched a pioneering approach to admissions for its fall 2024 courses. The business school has introduced a disruptive new option, performance-based admissions (PBA), for two graduate programs. They include the school’s online MBA degree (OMBA) and its four-month online graduate certificate in business administration (OGCBA).
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Strong MBA Recruiting On the Way, Predicts New GMAC Poll
October 29, 2024Certainly, the 2023 recruiting season wasn’t exactly the best for MBA hiring in recent years. But now, a new survey reports optimistic projections that predict strong hiring. That’s largely because employer confidence in graduate management education (GME) and its capacity to prepare business school graduates for success has achieved new heights since the pandemic.