华尔街日报：MBA申请人数趋势

爱神

Michigan的新楼很漂亮，但似乎没人申请：这所学校真的是江河日下了吗？
反过来Cornell的MBA似乎很热门，增加了不少申请人，是因为ivy league的效应吗？
原文见：http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2012/09/10/m-b-a-s-lose-their-luster-at-some-schools/

University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of BusinessApplications for the full-time M.B.A. at University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business dropped nearly 17%, to 2,436.Demand for an M.B.A. has cooled in recent years. But this year, it’s downright frigid in some corners of the market.
Applications declined sharply at some elite business schools in 2012, with interest in full-time, two-year M.B.A. programs continuing to show weakness as applicants opt instead for shorter or part-time graduate business programs or forego school altogether in favor of on-the-job learning.
Among the hardest-hit top-tier schools was Columbia Business School, where applications for the class that just began fell nearly 19%, to slightly above 2007 levels. The school says the sharp drop comes in the wake of “unusually high” application volume following the financial crisis, peaking at 6,669 last year.
Applications for the full-time M.B.A. at University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business dropped nearly 17%, to 2,436. New York University’s Stern School of Business reported an 11.5% decline in its fall class, to 3,907, while Yale School of Management’s M.B.A. applications fell by 9.6%, to 2,554 and MIT’s Sloan School of Management saw a decline of nearly 8%, to 4,133.
For some schools, the numbers extend a rather bleak pattern. After applications to two-year full-time programs jumped in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, they have declined since 2009, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers the GMAT business-school entrance exam. Across the board, applications to those programs fell 9.9% for the class that enrolled in fall 2011. Results from GMAC’s next survey, measuring volume for the group that entered this fall, will be released next week.
Prospective students initially were eager to bolster their resumes amid a tight job market, but the prolonged economic uncertainty and weak Wall Street employment prospects has more than reversed that trend at many schools. Still, that doesn’t explain the entire picture, because some top schools fared significantly better than their competitors.
For example, applications to the two-year M.B.A. at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management jumped 14% this year to a near-record high of about 2,100. Applications for the one-year M.B.A rose by 12%. The school attributes some of its increase to more aggressive recruiting efforts; it added about 40 events globally to its calendar last year.
At University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, meanwhile, two-year M.B.A. applications rose by 9%. Sara Neher, assistant dean of M.B.A. admissions, says a new marketing plan and higher rankings has led to more, and better-qualified, applicants.
Meanwhile, applications to Harvard Business School’s M.B.A. fell by 4% this year.
Applications to the M.B.A. at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School remained relatively flat at 6,408 (compared with 6,442 the prior year), with growth among applicants from the social sector and military backgrounds, as well as those with experience in technology and healthcare. Interest in joint and dual-degree programs also increased, says Ankur Kumar, director of admissions and financial aid.
Administrators at some of the schools were stumped as to why their fortunes were better or worse than those of close competitors.
“I think schools have about as much wisdom predicting application volume as economists do predicting employment,” says Derrick Bolton, assistant dean and director of M.B.A. admissions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Applications to that school’s full-time M.B.A. edged up 1.5% to 6,716, from 6,618 the prior year.
Even for those schools that did post a decline in applications to their flagship M.B.A. programs, it’s not all doom and gloom. Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management saw applications to its two-year M.B.A. drop by 7% to 5,071, but applications to its one-year program rose by 6%. The school increased the class size for that shorter degree to 100 from 85, part of a long-term strategic move to focus more on the shorter option.

gorgeous

难怪周围好多朋友都在准备cornell~~

不过我还是喜欢在大城市的学校

Netherlander

不知道从哪里能看到各个商学院每年的递交申请的数量...或者录取比例...貌似官网上都没有这些信息唉

HarrisZheng

文章不全

我看原文 UCLA增加22%的申请

ronaldotop

好奇这个统计是指2012入学的这批申请吗？
不是说MIT2012入学有异常多的申请吗？

总结如下。
CBS    -19%
Michigan    -17%
Stern    -11.5%
Yale    -9.6%
MIT    -8%
Harvard    -4%
Wharton -0.5%

Cornell +14%
Darden +9%
Stanford +1.5%

-- by 会员 爱神 (2012/10/9 21:27:11)

爱神

总结如下。
CBS    -19%
Michigan    -17%
Stern    -11.5%
Yale    -9.6%
MIT    -8%
Harvard    -4%
Wharton -0.5%

Cornell +14%
Darden +9%
Stanford +1.5%

橙风飘叶

申请人的GT，工作经验等background的趋势数据会更有参考价值吧。

Netherlander

Ross的这个数不是很符合他的排名啊...

fatmoe

Michigan好惨……

xtf1985

总体申请人数下降了，中国的申请人数是不是上升了？