Top MBA Connect

Interview with Sara Neher, Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions @ University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Considered one of the world's experts in the MBA space, Neher shares her thoughts on the current marketplace, provides prospective MBA students with advice, and shares info on the Darden experience.

Beth Ellis is the Director of the Graduate Career Management Center at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She talks about the current MBA landscape and the challenges business schools are facing.

The following are MBA scholarships and fellowships for African Americans. Many of these are run by independent organization. However, each school offers their own funding as well.

Business school rankings are important to the various business schools because they are an important marketing tool used to recruit top students, and lure recruitersfrom the top companies. Business schools attempt to achieve higher rankings in order that they may obtain the top students who will over the course of their careers most likely benefit the school by achieving high ranking positions, attaining great influence, and accumulating great wealth. Such students often are able to help other students attain better (higher paying, more respected and more influential) jobs. Students use the rankings to choose their school,^[2] and creators of the rankings produce them to aid in this decision.^[3]