The University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business takes a very traditional approach to its application essay questions. For the first required essay, applicants must detail their immediate short-term career goal—without much elaboration, given the submission’s mere 100-word limit. The second required essay can be as long as 600 words, and candidates are … Read More
Last year, the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business took a very traditional approach to its application essay questions (after a short foray into more creative territory), and the tactic must have delivered, because the admissions committee has made no changes to the prompts at all for 2020–2021. For the first required … Read More
Are you interested in earning your MBA at a top program? Here we present a list of MBA programs and the various admissions events they offer, which feature application workshops, information sessions, virtual chats, and other helpful resources. For many schools, more targeted offerings are available, such as sessions on diversity, career-focused seminars, workshops for … Read More
*Please note: You are viewing an essay analysis from the 2019-2020 admissions cycle. Click here to view our collection of essay analyses for the current admissions season. After a brief foray last year into creative territory with its application essay prompts, the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business has embraced a much more traditional … Read More
Bloomberg Businessweek released its 2018 ranking of U.S. MBA programs last week with a new name in first place: the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), which claimed the top spot for the first time in the survey’s 30-year history. The GSB, which was ranked fifth in 2017, was the only school this year to … Read More