Forbes Ranks Kogod No. 65 in List of Best Full-Time MBA Programs
American University’s Kogod School of Business has been ranked Number 65 in Forbes Magazine’s list of the Best Full-Time MBA Programs in the country. Forbes ranked MBA program based on their five-year return on investment through alumni surveys.
According to Forbes, 89 percent of the class of 2014 that landed jobs within three months of graduation accepted positions in the D.C. metro. 37 percent of job attaining alums went into consulting, followed by 16 percent of students who went into financial services. Continue reading…
Forbes Ranks Fox Among Top Schools for ROI and Job Placement
Forbes has ranked Temple University’s Fox School of Business among the top schools for job placement and return on investment. According to Forbes’ 2015 Best Business School rankings, the Fox Global MBA program has been ranked in the top 65 nationally for ROI and states that the school’s 95 percent job placement rate is “better than the vast majority of schools in the country.”
This is the school’s second consecutive appearance in Forbes’ biennial survey, which was released Sept. 9. Fox joins The Wharton School as the only other business school in Philadelphia to be ranked. Forbes rankings are based on the ROI achieved by students who graduate in the class of 2010. The rankings were evaluated based on a survey of 17,400 alumni from 95 different schools. To determine the rankings for ROI, the students’ total earning in the first five years out of the program were compared to the total cost of the program.
Carroll Dean Shares Advice in Forbes
Andy Boynton, dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, recently published an article for Forbes on “trusting your gut” and how to make better decisions. The article discusses how the advice to “trust your gut” could be a brilliant decision, or could just as easily become a terrible mistake. Boynton explains that “being able to distinguish one from the other is a critical skill for a leader or anyone making a decision.”
So how does Boynton explain when and how you should trust your gut when making business decisions? He gives three rules of thumb for trusting your gut. He first explains that it is helpful to trust your gut when you are in a situation such as working in an environment that is fast-changing and data is not always the best direction to follow. Balancing the data with your instincts, explains Boynton can be a step in the right direction.
REGISTER: Smith School’s 7th Social Enterprise Symposium
The Center for Social Value Creation at the Robert H. Smith School of Business will be presenting the 7th Social Enterprise Symposium (SES) on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event is held at the Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland and in conjunction with the three-day AshokaU Exchange, which is an international convening on social entrepreneurship in higher education. The symposium is free for UMD students, faculty and staff, but space is limited. Continue reading…
BU Ranked No. 28 by Forbes
Forbes magazine has ranked Boston University no. 28 on its 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list. According to the magazine, BU is considered one of the top start-up schools in the United States.
Forbes based its ranking of the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities on an “entrepreneurial ratio,” pitting the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves as founders and business owners on LinkedIn against the school’s total student body (undergraduate and graduate combined).
Stanford No. One Entrepreneurial University
Stanford University has been ranked no. one on Forbes’s 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list for the second time. Forbes ranked the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities based on their entrepreneurial ratios, the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves founders and business owners on LinkedIn against the school’s combined graduate and undergraduate student body.
Some of the most famous graduates from Stanford include, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Jeffrey Bewkes (Time Warner), Reed Hastings (Netflix), William Hewlett and David Packard (Hewlett-Packard), Konstantin Guericke and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Phil Knight (Nike), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo), Scott McNealy, Charles R. Schwab, (Charles Schwab Corp.), Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Instagram), Peter Thiel (PayPal) and Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo).
The top 20 most entrepreneurial schools ranked by Forbes are: Continue reading…
