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'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. graduate business schools -- once magnets for American and international students seeking a certain route to a high income -- are in an existential crisis. They are losing droves of students who are balking at sky-high tuition and, in the case of international applicants, turned off by President Trump's politics. The once-venerated MBA is going the way of the diminished law degree, pushed aside by tech education. Graduates of the top 25 or so MBA schools still command the elite Wall Street and corporate jobs they always did, but the hundreds of others are scrambling, and some schools are shutting down their programs. Survivors are often offering new touchy-feely degrees like "master of social innovation." [...] In the more than 350 programs that didn't make the top ranks, rising tuition costs and smaller returns in the form of employment and income have forced a rethink of the traditional MBA degree.

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  1. I'm a foreigner, so I have to ask by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apologies, English isn't my first language, does that mean we get to shoot MBAs now or do we still have to wait for them to die naturally?

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    1. Re:I'm a foreigner, so I have to ask by houstonbofh · · Score: 5, Funny

      The laws are different from state to state. ;)

    2. Re:I'm a foreigner, so I have to ask by judoguy · · Score: 4, Funny
      I'm pretty sure that shooting an MBA would count as self defense in most states.

      Especially if one has his/her hands on an Excel spreadsheet.

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  2. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if Trump is responsible for fewer MBAs, he was worth voting for.

  3. Willy Loman by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was expecting something a little more dramatic. Maybe an MBA who sold off all his earthly belongings in order to build a Bitcoin mining rig only to be cooked to death, surrounded by overheated GPUs.

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  4. Re:Fuck the universities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    " but not everything valuable can be easily and immediately quantified."

    The university has no problem attaching a dollar amount to it, though.

  5. Re:Winner Takes All by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on, most MBA courses have some kind of ethics module these days. OK, your score gets subtracted from your overall grade, but it's a start.

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