MBA

New media bulletin: The rise in specialised Masters

MBA or Masters?

Essentially, an MBA is a ‘post-experience’ qualification in general management. An MBA
usually requires three or more years of work experience, although it is most common for MBA
students to have four to eight years. Executive MBA (EMBA) courses are targeted at those with
executive experience, usually ten or more years.

The Bird's Nest Effect Makes it Hard to Choose a Business School

Choosing a business school should be easy with more than 10,000 institutions worldwide, but new research from CarringtonCrisp suggests that students find few characteristics that clearly differentiate one school from another.  Andrew Crisp, author of The Business of Branding report, supported by the Association of Business Schools (ABS) and EFMD, comments ‘When you plot the characteristics of schools, they tend to be muddled together like the interwoven twigs of a bird’s nest – there’s little that stands out”.

Tomorrow's MBA Survey Reveals Uncertain MBA Market

28% of prospective MBA students would consider a specialist Master's degree as an alternative to an MBA.

According to a new survey of 610 prospective MBA students in 91 countries, conducted by higher education marketing specialists CarringtonCrisp, in partnership with ABS and EFMD, more students than ever before would consider a Master's degree rather than an MBA.

Launch of the Marks & Spencer MBA Sustainable Retailing Challenge

The competition offers MBA students from Europe’s leading business schools the chance to win £5,000 and the opportunity to present to a prestigious panel of judges.

The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility is running the competition in partnership with M&S which has a target to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015.  In the coming months, teams of MBA students from across Europe will compete over three stages to determine which five MBA teams will get through to the London final in April 2012. 

Business of Branding and Generation Web Reports Available Now

The Business of Branding

What do students, staff and alumni think about your business school?  How are you positioned in the marketplace?  What are the strengths and weaknesses of your brand?

Students win £10,000 for plan to create solar mobile phone charging business

The students, who developed the plan as part of their Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design (IE&D) course, are now planning to put most of their prize money towards further developing the phone charger prototype, which is known as Solaris, and moving it towards manufacture.
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Alcatel Lucent MBA Scholarship Launched by Durham Business School

The scholarship is open to applicants to the full-time MBA 2011 intake who are European nationals.  It covers programme fees and will be awarded to the individual who is best able to contribute to and benefit from completing the programme.

The deadline for completed applications is Thursday 30 June 2011 and the result will be announced by the end of July.

For further information and to down-load an application form please visit.

M&B MD joins university as visiting Professor

Professor Todd will be advising the unique Academy of Multi-Unit Leadership at Birmingham City Business School at Birmingham City University.

Data & Surveys

ABS analyses a number of data sources to provide the latest market intelligence to our members. Slides and data on the latest information are available through the below links. Passwords for the 'members only' spreadsheets have been emailed to our contacts at member institutions.

We are now also able to offer bespoke data analysis for members - please get in touch for more details.

For any queries relating to data or surveys please contact Joe Clark on jclark@the-abs.org.uk or 020 7388 0007.

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MBAs from Europe’s leading business schools come to Cranfield to compete in Europe’s longest running business plan competition

Now in its nineteenth year, The European Business Plan of the Year Competition is Europe’s longest running business plan competition.  It is designed to encourage entrepreneurship and new business creation among MBA students and to help them develop and apply venturing, commercial and business skills that are so vital in today's business world.

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