Anderson Applications Increase By 32 Percent
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management revealed that applications to the school’s full-time MBA program rose by 32 percent for the 2013-2014 admissions cycle.
The unusual increase, in a year when application volume at many schools either flat or slightly down, means that MBA applications at Anderson have raised by more than 60 percent in the past four years. The latest increase follows a seven percent decline in the year-earlier after a 22 percent gain the prior year.
The school attributes the increase to a variety of factors. Some of which include a reduction of the number of essays and letters of recommendation required to apply as well as increased recruiting efforts that have led to deeper engagement by applicants. Continue reading…
Anderson Professor Mark Garmaise Appointed Dean
University of California at Los Angeles Anderson School of Management Professor of Finance Mark Garmaise has been named as the dean of the Full-time MBA program. Garmaise will begin in his position as dean on July 1, 2014. Anderson’s Dean Judy Olian made the announcement.
“In Mark, we have a combination of remarkable talents, an outstanding teacher who is dedicated to his MBA students, and a trailblazing scholar who infuses his teaching with relevant and emerging research findings,” said Olian.
Professor Garmaise graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an AB in Mathematics and Philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford GSB in 1998. Garmaise was appointed assistant professor at Chicago Booth and joined UCLA Anderson as a visiting assistant professor in the finance area in 2001. Continue reading…
