Best Schools by Specialty: Business Week

Best Schools by Specialty: Finance

Schools with Top Finance Programs (Listed in alphabetical order, not ranked)

University of Chicago
Columbia University
Duke University
Harvard University
University of Michigan
New York University
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin

Also consider:
University of VirginiaMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Rochester
Stanford University

Best Schools by Specialty: Management

Top Schools for Management (Listed in alphabetical order, not ranked)

University of Chicago
Columbia University
Duke University
Harvard University
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia

Also consider:
Dartmouth College
Yale University
Indiana University

Best Schools by Specialty: Entrepreneurship

Best Schools for Entrepreneurship (List in alphabetical order, not ranked)

Babson College
University of California-Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University

Also consider:
Columbia University
University of California-Los Angeles
Dartmouth College
Harvard University

Best Schools by Specialty: Marketing

Schools With Top Marketing Programs (In alphabetical order, not ranked)

University of California-Berkeley
Duke University
Harvard University
Indiana University
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern University
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia

Also consider:
Dartmouth College
New York University
University of Rochester

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/mbainsider/schools_by_specialty.html

B - School Ranking 2008 - Business Week

# 1 University of Chicago
# 2 Harvard University
# 3 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
# 4 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
# 5 University of Michigan (Ross)
# 6 Stanford University
# 7 Columbia University
# 8 Duke University (Fuqua)
# 9 MIT (Sloan)
# 10 UC Berkeley (Haas)
# 11 Cornell University (Johnson)
# 12 Dartmouth (Tuck)
# 13 NYU (Stern)
# 14 UCLA (Anderson)
# 15 Indiana University (Kelley)
# 16 University of Virginia (Darden)
# 17 UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
# 18 Southern Methodist (Cox)
# 19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
# 20 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
# 21 Texas - Austin
# 22 Brigham Young (Marriott)
# 23 Emory University (Goizueta)
# 24 Yale University
# 25 University of Southern California (Marshall)
# 26 University of Maryland (Smith)
# 27 University of Washington (Foster)
# 28 Washington University (Olin)
# 29 Georgia Tech
# 30 Vanderbilt University (Owen)

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/

Tuck School of Business at Darmouth launches its Admissions Blog

The Tuck admissions blog gives you the chance to percieve the Tuck experience through the eyes of students and partners. Bloggers come from a variety of professional, geographic , and life experience backgrounds. Furthermore, an admissions officer (and occasional guest bloggers) share thoughts and advice on applying to B-school

Blog Address: http://tuckschool.blogspot.com/

Link: http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/connect/blog.html

HBS sends out Round One Interview Invitations

HBS Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Dee Leopold informed in her blogpost on November 11 that HBS has sent 750 Round 1 Interview invitations and ultimately will send 100 more by the notification date, January 21.

Read here: http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.html#post-2008-11-11_2

Chicago GSB renamed as the Booth School of Business in recognition of largest gift by alumnus David Booth in the University’s history

Alumnus David Booth gives $300 million to University of Chicago business school; Largest gift in the University’s history. School to be renamed in his honor.

An entrepreneur and visionary marketer who built his successful investment firm on finance principles he learned at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business has returned the favor by making the largest donation in the University’s history and the largest gift to any business school in the world, the school announced today (Thursday, November 6).

The donor is David G. Booth, founder and chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm, his wife Suzanne Booth and their family. David Booth received an M.B.A. from the school in 1971. The combination of an up-front payment, the income stream, and the equity interest provided by the Booth gift is valued at $300 million. In recognition of the gift, the school will be renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

For more read: Press release

Stanford announces Grameen Fellows Program for Bangladeshi students

The Grameen Fellows program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business aims to support promising Bangladeshi students with financial need in obtaining an MBA at Stanford

The program will cover all financial costs related to tuition, living expenses, and application and examination fees associated wit the admissions process.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/mba/blog/
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financial_aid/grameen.html

For Stanford Graduate School of Business Fellowships and Scholarships click here

HBS - Loans for International Students

October 31, 2008 - Harvard Business School is pleased to announce that Harvard MBA students will continue to have access to need-based loans, despite the pressures on loan availability for students in the current economic climate. This is true for U.S. students as well as international students, who will not be required to find a U.S. co-signer.

http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/loans.html
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