Barron's Guide to Graduate Business Schools [Paperback]

Eugene Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1997 | ISBN-10: 0812095596 | ISBN-13: 978-0812095593 | Edition: 10th

Updated for the coming academic year, this manual presents profiles of more than 650 business schools, with details on admission requirements, academic programs, fields of specialization, tuition and fees, career placement services, and other pertinent details. Leading Canadian schools are also profiled. Additional features include advice on choosing the school that best fits the reader's circumstances and career goals.

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With up-to-date tuition and fees plus descriptions of each school, this directory profiles more than 600 accredited business schools in the United States and Canada. You'll find admission requirements, minimum GMAT score, academic programs, requirements for international students, course requirements for graduation, career placement services, library, research, and computer facilities, data on composition of each school's faculty and student body, and the admissions contact, with e-mail and web site addresses. You'll also find helpful advice on choosing a business school that best suits your plans and needs, coping with the school application procedure, and financing your business school program.

Extra feature--
A sample GMAT with answer keys, and a self-evaluation chart. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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[back cover]
Complete, up-to-date profiles of more than 600 business schools in the United States and Canada

Plus advice to help you with?
The application procedure
Taking the GMAT?including a sample exam with answers explained
Financing your education
Matching your skills to a prospective employer?s needs
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 725 pages
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc; 10th edition (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812095596
• ISBN-13: 978-0812095593
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,131,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Business School (not so) Blues, June 30, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Guide to Graduate Business Schools (Barron's Guide to Graduate Business Schools, 11th ed) (Paperback)

Barron's collectively assembles the information you are looking for in an easy-to-read format that makes the scary idea of going to business school a little less intimidating. The book breaks down each school, discussing the programs available, admissions info and general data regarding the campuses.

The Barron's Guide also has a helpful section on financial aid and what programs various schools excel in. The Barron academic profiles are comprehensive and are sure to help an prospective student in making a decision that is sure to be one of the biggest of their lives!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful guide for the business school selection process, July 5, 2002

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David Petersam (Vienna, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guide to Graduate Business Schools (Barron's Guide to Graduate Business Schools) (Paperback)

If you are certain that you have no interest in studying outside the U.S. or Canada, then this book provides a good amount of information on the business schools on which you will be focusing. It also provides a nice summary table of these schools as well as a short section dedicated to the GMAT exam. This is the perfect book if you need to narrow down or even just select the business schools in which you may be interested. It can be particularly useful in assuring you don't accidentally overlook a program for which you are well suited. The financial aid section is also pretty helpful. Beware that, if you are applying to a competitive business school, you will want to do additional research for your "Why I want to attend your business school" essay beyond what is covered in this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Little more than statistics, September 15, 2008

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S. Jordan (Kalamazoo, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guide to Graduate Business Schools (Barron's Guide to Graduate Business Schools) (Paperback)

This guide to graduate business schools is barely more than a list of statistics for each school. If that's what you're looking for, nearly all these statistics can be found on the schools' websites.
Most of the data is prefaced by "In a recent year", so a lot of the time you don't even know what year Barron's is talking about. It offers the barest description of programs and doesn't analyze them at all. Why are certain programs better than others? It really doesn't say.
Unlike many undergraduate guides which give you an idea about the quality of life, quality of academics, and quality of social life, this book leaves you with nothing more than statistics, and no way to judge each school. That is, unless you know you want to attend a school where "in a recent year" most graduating students were placed into jobs immediately (which are nearly all the schools listed) and make your decision based on that.
Additionally, the book is filled with the teeniest tiniest business schools whose graduate enrollment, I'm not kidding, include 2 men and 2 women. These entries take up space which could be better dedicated to a more in depth look at schools that you're more likely to attend.
Overall, I don't think this book helped me narrow down my choices at all, because it's a whole lot of statistics and no real analysis of the schools or programs. However, if you're looking for an exhaustive list of every single MBA program in the U.S., this would be it.