If you’re thinking that now might be a good time to get off Wall Street and lay low by applying to business school, you aren’t alone. Applications to business schools are booming. “It’s the second-largest year-over-year surge in applications to full-time programs since 2002, and the highest level of increase in five years,” Business Week reports.
The sharpest increase is in mid-tier business schools. Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, saw a 39% increase in applications, for instance. But even MIT’s Sloan School of Management and NYU’s Stern School of Business saw double digit increases in application volume.
Sagging Economy Boosting B-School Programs [Business Week]
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Carney, why the hell would we care about Penn State’s Smeal College of Business (didn’t even know it existed). You might as well give us stats on University of Phoenix while you’re at it…
1 – Maybe it typified the kind of schools that are seeing the sharpest increase in applications, which happens to be the jist of the post.
“even MIT’s Sloan School of Management and NYU’s Stern School of Business saw double digit increases in application volume”
Great, i might as well dont bother taking gmat’s (have a 3.2 gpa which hurts) and i will be stuck with quant money management as i want to move towards fundamental side. Or maybe move to brazil, do some non profit crap for a year to get in hbs!
“even MIT’s Sloan School of Management and NYU’s Stern School of Business saw double digit increases in application volume”
Great, i might as well dont bother taking gmat’s (have a 3.2 gpa which hurts) and i will be stuck with quant money management as i want to move towards fundamental side. Or maybe move to brazil, do some non profit crap for a year to get in hbs!
Losers.
I just got admitted to Apex Tech executive MBA program.
4 You’re a perfect candidate for CFA. Do it dude. I’ve been there (trying to break into fundamental asset management, though not from quant) and can tell you it will help.
1 Smeal actually has a very good reputation for operations management (i.e. running factories, distribution systems). You’ll see industrials recruiting there and liking it.
@ 1
dumbass
this post and the article behind the post make me just want to say, uh…durrrr
Carney can you print out this post and snail mail it to my parents when I get rejected from Indiana University school of Just Kill me Now?
Thanks in advance.
ditto girl, argh…
im thinking about paying someone to take the gmat on my behalf… any takers?
@6 – the beauty of the Apex MBA is that after you read each book, it’s yours to keep…
Wasn’t this in the economist a month ago? Anyway, all you need is something to separate yourself from all the other people worried about losing their jobs or not getting promoted.
In other words, we’re all screwed and not in the good way.
13 – just took the gmat … they finger-print you! good luck! i’d love for someone to take my gmat for me
@13 no problem. They’re isnt an exam i cant take. Pencils down bongs up and its 420 University!
Oh…. and #17 eats my ass.
SPODE
#17 — started class early today? well done!
…and it is going to get even worse for those applying now for fall ’09.
@17- its called UC Boulder not 420U. anybody check the freshmen crop this year?
hey 17, you are 17 so have fun chasing your ass like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLylhDFBqEM
I just got into ITT Tech!!!!
Wait a second… let me get this straight:
Massive layoffs across Wall St. coupled with a shitty economy that doesn’t appear to be getting better any time soon. And we’re to believe this environment is leading to an increase in b-school applications???
Where’s the forehead slapper when you need him?
23: Just…shut…up.
Where’s the forehead slapper when you need him?
For that matter, where’s Thadeus Monk (the one who always offered to provide some interim employment for any attractive female in need of some walking around money.)
How about blnde banker as well? Haven’t heard from some of the old regulars in a while.
I am so bored and frustrated im actually considering Devry fopr my MBA. But I’ll most likely do the cfa.
yet another typo. FOR*
whatever you do, don’t go to law school
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NYU has a business school? What’s the point?
NYU has a business school? What’s the point of that?
Business School? Didn’t all these lily white boy geniuses that got us into this mess go to business school? Didn’t they go to the best business schools in the world — the IVY LEAGUE business schools? Didn’t they learn how to construct their sophisticated fancy pants mortgage derivative tricks at business school? Didn’t they learn how to drive a business, a city an economy, a country and maybe the world into the toilet at business school?
Didn’t they all come through a system that rewards conformity and group think? Were they naturally selected, one after another for fitting into a very narrow and in the end toxic mold?
Why the hell would anyone want to join the herd? Time to think outside the ivy…
Guess what, 49.99% of students are below average intelligence.
I’m glad I daytrade the ES from home. Don’t have to worry about this.
Anyone know if it is possible to leave a BB IB as a 2nd year associate go back to a BB after a top 10 MBA as a VP?
35 anything is possible
Let me add that in this environment, you should be totally flexible. Sounds like you’re trying to plan out every move to an unhealthy degree. You’re setting yourself up to be disappointed big time.
Oh yeah MBA school, 100k plus debt to get a 100k a year job.
I bankers best learn to drive trains and buses. The world has too mnay moron bankers. Putting together pitch books and working on excel are not real skills.
Jersey transit is hiring.
aEcHVf Muchos Gracias for your blog article. Awesome.