Top MBA Connect

Sarah Ramsey is the Director of Recruitment and Admissions at UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business. Not only does Ramsey work at the Merage School of Business, she is also a graduate of Merage's Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA) program, and is very active on Twitter. In this interview, Ramsey discusses MBA trends such as the increased interest in non-traditional MBA fields such as technology, healthcare, and entrepreneurship.

Shelley Heinrich is the Interim Director of MBA Admissions and Marketing at the George Washington School of Business. In this interview, she discusses MBA trends such as non-traditional applications for the MBA, entrepreneurship, crowdfunding, and a more diverse MBA student body.

Maryke Luijendijk-Steenkamp is the Director of Marketing & Admissions at Rotterdam School of Management - Erasmus University in the Netherlands. She has several years of experience working with MBA applicants. In this interview, Luijendijk-Steenkamp discusses MBA trends she has observed recently such as an increased interest in sustainability amongst MBA applicants as well as a rise in the number of female MBA applicants.

Patrick Brown, co-founder of Occam Education, shares the trends he sees in the MBA market. His company provides university students with a variety of services to help them pick the right "fit". He states that the best exercise students can do is to imagine where they see themselves in the future.

Interview with Beth Ellis, Director of the Graduate Career Management center at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona. She discusses what employers look for when hiring MBA graduates, how business schools and employers are adapting to the current economic climate and provides advice to current and aspiring MBA students.