Tag: MBA
Master Cheaters Pay The Price
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 09:40:52 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you're at all serious about getting an MBA worth the paper it's printed on, you're going to have to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), hoping to score high enough that a highly ranked business school will accept you. Between 210,000 and 220,000 wannabe MBAs take the exam annually. Because so much potential money and power hinges on the GMAT, the General Management Admission Council (GMAC), the test's administrator, is serious about everything being on the up and up. Which is why, when GMAC announced this past June that as many as 6,000 GMAT takers were under scrutiny, many current and hopeful MBA students got very nervous. The probe is over and close to 5,900 GMAT takers can breathe a sigh of relief - the same cannot be said for 84 who were nailed as a result of the probe.
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MBA Made In A Mountaineer Minute
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 08:39:20 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's not often the allegation of an unearned academic degree warrants much more than a departmental inquiry in the school which conferred the degree. But, this case is different because it involves the school in question giving a pass on almost half the credits required to earn the degree. It's different because the course work was waived on orders from high-ranking officers at the school. It's also different because the student in question is the daughter of the governor of the state whose university apparently gave her the M.B.A. she didn't earn. Those are the findings of a report delivered by a five member panel following a three month period of getting at the facts of the matter of the bogus M.B.A.
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