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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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MiM Degrees: Should MBA Candidates Apply to Them Instead?
June 5, 2026Should 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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An Easier Year for U.S. MBA Applicants: Why Now is the Time to Apply
June 3, 2026MBA applications appear to be plummeting as far fewer international students apply to U.S. MBA programs. This is part of a larger trend in which more international students appear to be applying to graduate schools in other nations, such as the United Kingdom and Canada, but not the United States. This trend seems to run counter to historical patterns.
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What’s a Flipped MBA Classroom?
May 20, 2026Here at BSchools, we pointed out that online MBA programs carry extraordinarily large startup costs, in part because online curricula require sizable investments in production facilities and equipment. These programs also carry high ongoing upgrade costs, especially at highly-ranked business schools that exploit competitive advantages from new technology. However, at one top program, a different and surprising objective behind these investments has also emerged.
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Is the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Headed for Bankruptcy? Part Two
May 18, 2026As 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 Buyer’s Market for MBA Programs in 2026
May 8, 2026For much of the past decade, slower application growth and uneven demand across programs gave MBA applicants more leverage than in the past, especially at schools outside the very top tier. In 2026, MBA applicants still have more leverage, but the market is no longer uniform across the board. The market is more segmented now.
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University of Utah (Eccles): Two Views, One Business School
April 21, 2026There used to be a hierarchy wherein online MBA programs were considered diet MBAs—not quite the same as the real thing. Those days are gone. Advancements in tech and the maturation of online programs in general mean that it’s no longer a matter of hierarchy, but individual preference.
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GMAT Alternatives: The Executive Assessment & GRE Tests
April 2, 2026MBA program applicants who assume that they have no other options besides taking the GMAT may damage their chances of admission to some of the best schools. They might score relatively higher on one of the alternative tests: the Executive Assessment (EA) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
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What Tasks Will Be Automated in Future Businesses?
April 1, 2026In today's technologically advancing world, artificial intelligence (AI) disrupts almost every sector, reimagining how business is conducted. The ubiquitous influence of AI is not only confined to digital marketing or legal analysis, but its tendrils are reaching into virtually every aspect of commerce.
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The FDIC Meeting That Blew Up the Internet
March 31, 2026Much 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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How to Apply For and Win MBA Scholarships
March 27, 2026When it comes to MBA scholarships, a knowledge gap exists. One of the world’s foremost experts on graduate management education, John Byrne of Poets and Quants, points out that business schools which give the most money in MBA scholarships typically trumpet that fact in the press. Less generous business schools tend to be much more quiet about their scholarship funding, although analysts can infer their annual budgets and student awards from other sources.
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Is AI a Bubble or a Continuing Bonanza?
March 25, 2026Bridgewater Associates, a premier asset management firm, warns that this is ‘the most dangerous phase’ of the AI boom: enormous investments must eventually be paid off with enormous profits. Where will those profits come from?
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Which Business Skills Are Most Valuable in 2026?
March 24, 2026Around the world, surprising changes in the skills workers will need for success suddenly loom on the imminent horizon. And those contemplating enrolling in MBA degree programs would be wise to consider some of the ways these changes in critical skills will affect their futures.
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20-Somethings in Hoodies: Debunking Stereotypes of Entrepreneurs
March 23, 2026Startups are a risky business: up to 90 percent of them fail. At the same time, venture firms invested approximately $274 billion in U.S.-based startups in 2025. Who is that money going to, and why? Especially in the startup world, investors would be wise to look at the data before making a decision.
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Are CBDCs (Digital Dollars) the Future of Banking?
February 13, 2026Understanding the public relations damage that this broadcast did to the Fed’s plan to launch its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) first requires understanding how this new form of currency differs from other kinds of money.
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Did MBAs Engage in Covid-19 Pandemic Profiteering?
January 27, 2026Executives associated with pharmaceutical companies working on drugs targeting the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear to have cracked the code unlocking multimillion-dollar compensation during the Covid-19 era.