Are MBAs Passe?
If they are collateral damage from the Trump recovery, universities will have another reason to hate the president. “Applications to American M.B.A. programs dropped for a fourth straight year, with even elite universities starting to show signs of struggling to lure young professionals out of the strong job market,” Kelsey Gee reported in The Wall Street Journal on October 1, 2018. “For the first time in nearly a decade, waning interest in the traditional master of business administration degree hit business schools that draw the most applications, including Harvard and Stanford universities, according to a survey of 360 schools by the Graduate Management Admission Council…”