The Wall Street journal has published an article about Americas’s
ranking of MBA, you can find it here:
http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool06/20060920-alsop-mblede….
This article may gives us another perspective on the job market.
Here are some extracts:
Some informations about statistics gathering:
“Harris Interactive conducted the online survey of 4,125 recruiters (up from 3,267 respondents in 2005) from Dec. 13, 2005, to March 16, 2006 — with respondents rating only schools where they said they had recent recruiting experience. To qualify for any of the three rankings, a school had to receive at least 20 recruiter ratings. ”
“Companies are hiring far more M.B.A.s — and at higher salaries — than a
quarter of the respondents said they would pay starting salaries of more
than $100,000 this year, compared with 17% in 2005. And 62% said they had
raised salaries, up from 48% last year. “
“Hiring students with less work experience is difficult because they have
says. “Meanwhile, they may be less productive and require more training.”
They have also made an international ranking:
http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool06/20060920-table-interna…
What are the greatest assets of the number one (ESADE) ?
“ESADE, however, moved ahead of IMD, the International Institute for Management Development, which had been No. 1 for two straight years. Most recruiters cite ESADE’s international culture as its greatest asset. About a quarter of its students are Spanish; the rest come from some 30 other countries. Close behind is the team-player mentality of its graduates. ESADE graduates “have the attitude to be good team members in the sense that they tend to be active listeners, build on the ideas of others and reinforce the other team members,” says Beatriz Olvera Arias, director of human-resources development at TUI España, a travel company. “What you find in the ESADE profile is more of a willingness to cooperate with others, even if they are competitors in the market, than to compete against them.”
