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Adventures In Business School: 5 Unexpected Things You Have To Do After You’re Accepted
If you think it’s all world travel and happy hours after you get accepted into your business school of choice, pay attention: there’s lots of things you’ll have to do before you even set foot on campus for day one of orientation, and some might surprise you. More »
The MIM Degree: A Junior Version Of The MBA?
We have talked about the pros and cons of earning an MBA on this site. Obviously the connections and education are major pros but the time and money that are needed to earn this degree can be major cons for people and can stop them from pursuing one altogether. As part of our effort to provide you with as many options as possible for advancing your career we thought you could use some info on the MIM or Masters in Management degree which could be viewed as a very good alternative to an MBA for people right out of college. More »
Adventures In Business School: What’s The Deal With All The Happy Hours?
I’ve been invited to no less than 10 happy hours in the last month, and I haven’t even set foot in a classroom yet. How much time should you spend with your classmates before school starts? More »
Are Women Guided To Take More Female Centric Classes In Law School?
It is a tough game for female lawyers these days. We have talked about how there is a significant drop off for female lawyers in their 30′s. Law firms are having trouble figuring out how to maintain women when they hit their prime child-raising years but also women are choosing to leave. At the equity partnership level, only 15% of the lawyers are women. It also seems that even young female lawyers, who aren’t married, are put on the “mommy law track.” However, it seems that this track could be starting as early as law school when female law students may be taking (and may be encouraged to) more female centric classes because counselors and professors think this may put them on a more-female friendly employment track. But does this hurt their chances for working in other areas of the law? We talked to some law students and lawyers about this. More »
The Romance Between Wall Street And Ivy League Graduates Is Still Going Strong
If you thought that the financial crisis led to a breakup between Wall Street and students at Ivy League schools, you were wrong. Even if some of those idealistic grads may have claimed to be disillusioned with the financial industry, there classmates were not. Smaller salaries, protests and public resignations did not keep these smart kids down. According to recent reports, among the class of 2011, the financial industry was the top employer of graduates of Harvard, Duke, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania’s engineering school.
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‘I’m A Successful White-Collar Professional Without A College Degree’
It’s conventional wisdom these days that to succeed in a white-collar job, you need a college education. In the past three decades, the wage gap between college grads and high school grads has tripled, and an adult with only a high-school degree is about twice as likely to be unemployed as a college grad. You’re dead without a college education. Or are you?
When I put out a call for people who had found success without a college degree, I got way more responses than I anticipated, from entrepreneurs (mostly) and traditional corporate success stories, including a vice president of PR. Yes, these success stories are anomalous. (If you’re a teen and you’re reading this, don’t try this at home! Go to college!) But they’re an important reminder that there’s more than one path to success. More »
Congratulations! You Just Finished Law School, Have $150,000 In Debt And No Job
According to a new survey from U.S. News & World Report, law school graduates have an average of $100,433 in debt when they graduate. And in even better news, U.S. law schools will produce four times as many new lawyers as there will be jobs for them, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More »
Being Honest About Your Failures May Help You Get Into Business School
Just like when applying for a job, everybody hates to answer that question about their biggest weaknesses or explain that gap in their resume. Nobody likes to explain any failures when applying for business school either, but according to one expert being honest about mistakes may give you a leg up in the admissions process.
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You Just Finished Law School, But Now You Have To Get Another Degree
You took the LSAT’s. You finished law school. You passed the bar. And then you actually got a job in this economy. Now you can just concentrate on working your butt off to move up the ladder. But, guess what. You have to go back to school. But this time you will be working full time. It’s called an LL.M, and some areas of law strongly encourage their employees to get it, but is it actually a waste of time?
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Albert Einstein Was Gender Blind When It Came To Women In Science
The lack of women going into STEM fields is still astonishing and the problem is believed to start with young girls in the classroom. This issue could start to be dealt with if more teachers and students had the same attitude as Albert Einstein, the smartest man that ever lived. Maria Popova of BrainPickings pointed out that in the new book, Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children, the legendary mathematician informs a young girl interested in science that there is no reason to be concerned about being a girl who happens to like science. It doesn’t matter what sex you are as long as you find passion in the subject. And that is what everyone should keep in mind. More »
‘Not Going To Business School Was The Best Decision I Ever Made’
What if you were offered the chance to go to a top-notch institution that would guarantee you high-profile connections, priceless skills for running a business and a chance to learn from some of the best teachers in the world? Yes, you have to pay a ton of money, but in just two years you will have a fantastic job, so who cares? Well, some people care quite a lot. This is just one way of looking at business school. Some people view it as paying a ridiculously amount of money for two years (when you could be getting real experience) and then not being guaranteed a fabulous job when you get out (which you need in order to pay for those two years.) We talked to people who said not attending business school was actually the best decision they ever made.
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Crushing Student Loan Debt Helps Debunk The ‘Selfish Career Woman’ Myth
According to new research, student loans may be part of the reason women are putting off marriage and starting a family.This contributes to the debunking of the “selfish career woman” that doesn’t want to have kids or settle down because they are too busy focusing on their career. These women may be saddled with debt from trying to get the right education to help their career and want a healthier financial life before they start a family. More »
10 Expert Tips On How To Pay Down Your Student Loan Debt
The cost for education in this country is skyrocketing and families are compensating by taking on more and more student loans. In fact, some parents start borrowing while their children are still in kindergarten. And some students leave their universities with shiny new degrees and six-figure debt hanging over their heads.
So we decided to reach out to some of the best financial advisers we know and ask for a little help on how to pay down those loans. They gave us insight into the loan process itself, the mentality we need to have to approach these topics and plenty of sound financial wisdom that you can take into every area of your personal finances. More »
Bathrooms Across Campus And 5 More Ways Harvard Business School Has Changed Since Women Entered
The state of affairs for women in business school has changed a lot since 1971, when the Harvard Business School graduating class was only 4% female. Several of the women of that 1971 class, dubbed “one of the most diverse groups of men and women ever admitted to the School,” recently recounted to The Harbus, HBS’ MBA student newspaper, that subtle and non-so-subtle discrimination was rife among both their fellow male classmates and potential employers, who were certain the female students would leave the workforce when they got pregnant. More »
Poll: Are You Still Paying Back Your Student Loan Debt?
The US total of student loan debt just topped $1 trillion. Do you still have student loans to pay back for your education? More »
Women Are More Educated Than Ever Before But They Make Less Money Than Men
Way to go, America! The Census Bureau reported last week that a record 30% of Americans ages 25 and older have at least a bachelor’s degree. The data, from March 2011, marks first time ever that such high a proportion of Americans have had at least a four-year degree, and it follows decades of gradually improving higher education rates. This is great news for the economy as we need more innovative thinking. “The future of the U.S. economy is not assembling the computer. The future of the U.S. economy is coming up with a novel design for a semiconductor that gets into a computer, that will then be assembled in some emerging economy,” said Adolfo Laurenti, deputy chief economist with MesirowFinancial. More »
10 Numbers You Should Know For Women’s History Month
Today is March 1 which means it is the beginning of Women’s History Month! You probably all just go around reciting facts about this great month but in case you don’t we have collected some must-have information about the month that everyone should know. For a little historical context, before 1970, women’s history was rarely the subject of serious study. As historian Mary Beth Norton recalls, “only one or two scholars would have identified themselves as women’s historians, and no formal doctoral training in the subject was available anywhere in the country.” More »
Is Prostitution The New Norm For Medical Students With Debt?
Smart girl gets into medical school. Smart girls parents can’t pay for medical school. Smart girl becomes prostitute in order to pay for school. It is the oldest story in the book, if the book was a television series created by Aaron Spelling. This is actually straight out of a plot from the new Melrose Place reboot (and now I am sad I just admitted that to you.) But this is actually happening in England. More »
12 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before Applying To Business School
On this site we have talked many times about the pros and cons of going to business school. We’ve pretty much tackled all sides of the issue finding a counter for each argument made. Yes, it is terribly expensive but the contacts you make are priceless. Yes, it may help you start your own business but then again, hey Mark Zuckerberg. Should anybody be taking this kind of risk in an economy like this? On the other hand maybe going to school is the only thing you should do in this kind of economy. More »
This University May Have Figured Out How To Get More Women Into Business
Brunel University, based in Uxbridge, West London, may have come up with the right way to get more women to go into business. It has launched the Women into Business program to raise aspirations among female students. The program is not promising to break the glass ceiling or even promise to get 15% more women on company boards in 10 years. What it is doing is getting young women to actually think about a career in business in the first place, which even in 2012 can still be a challenge. More »
