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Does PhD pedigree matter?

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Business School Essays Topics

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Transfer Admission possible for Undergraduate Scholars

If you are an undergraduate student and wish to study in your dream university try transferring to a top school.
Here are some statistics to help you decide about this.
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IVY League Schools
 

IVY League School
UG Transfer Acceptance Rate
Acceptance for Students entering as Freshmen

Yale
4.5%
8.6%

Harvard
7.5%
9.3%

Columbia
10%
9.6%

Dartmouth
12%
15.4%

UPenn
17%
17.7%

Brown
25%
13.8%

Cornell
35%
24.7%

 
Other [...]

Entrepreneurship – where is it taught best?

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The Times Higher World University Rankings 2007

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50 Most influential Management Thinkers

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University Performance – US still dominates

Says BBC
Four of the top 10 are British and the rest American. Harvard is top and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge joint second.
University College London breaks into the top 10 for the first time and Imperial College London rises to fifth.
The annual survey by the Times Higher Education Supplement and careers and education group QS ranks [...]

‘Career Enhancement Potential’ Ranking of Business Schools-Financial Times

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Rankings of the B-Schools from Students Career Enhancement Perspective has been made in Table 1. It shows the world schools from a different perspective.
In analyzing the Financial Times,London data it is assumed that a MBA student opts for the program to increase his earnings potential [...]

Average MBA Starting Salaries

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Rank
Business School
Applicants
Accepted
Median Total
Pay Package

1
Northwestern (Kellogg)
13%
$142,000

2
Chicago
15%
$140,000

3
Harvard
10%
$160,000

4
Stanford
8%
$165,500

5
U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
13%
$156,000

6
MIT
13%
$149,000

7
Columbia
11%
$142,500

8
Michigan
19%
$131,000

9
Duke (Fuqua)
19%
$128,500

10
Dartmouth (Tuck)
14%
$149,500

11
Cornell (Johnson)
22%
$135,000

12
Virginia (Darden)
18%
$135,000

13
UC Berkeley (Haas)
11%
$135,000

14
Yale
15%
$130,000

15
NYU (Stern)
15%
$140,000

16
UC Berkeley (Haas)
11%
$117,000

17
Washington U. (Olin)
33%
$89,000

18
U. of Texas – Austin
23%
$97,000

19
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
24%
$107,000

20
Yale
25%
$116,000

21
Indiana (Kelley)
24%
$92,000

22
Maryland (Smith)
21%
$84,500

23
Wisconsin
47%
$70,000

24
Purdue (Krannert)
25%
$86,500

25
USC (Marshall)
26%
$93,000

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