In an article titled, “MBA Apps Take a Shocking Plunge”published at Poets & Quants, John A. Byrne discusses how the number of MBA applications in the United States has dropped substantially. The amount of the drop depends on the particular school; however, even top schools are experiencing a substantial decrease. The article states: At Rice University’s Jones Graduate School, for example, candidates to the school’s full-time programs plummeted by 27.7% to just 587 applications from 813 a year earlier. At the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas-Austin, applications fell 19.6%. At the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, applicants declined by 18.3%. Applications dipped 16.2% at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, while they fell 13.2% at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. The article provides several reasons for the decline in…
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