Product Description

Presenting up-to-date costs and latest school facts and figures, this directory profiles more than 600 accredited business schools in the United States and Canada. Details supplied for each school include admission requirements, minimum GMAT score, available academic programs, course requirements for graduation, career placement services, library, research, and computer facilities, data on both the faculty and student body, and admissions contact, with e-mail and web site addresses. The directory of schools is organized state-by-state. Additional information for prospective students includes advice on choosing a specific business school, the application procedure, financing one’s business school program, and a sample GMAT exam with answer keys and a self-evaluation chart.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #328645 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Released on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 840 pages

From the Inside Flap
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.

From the Back Cover
[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

Customer Reviews

Little more than statistics
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.

This book was not as helpful as I expected.
This book was not as helpful as I expected.

Very helpful guide for the business school selection process
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.