[转帖]加拿大MBA就业情况 作者：windlake

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[日期：2005-09-04]来源：ChaseDream论坛  作者：windlake

            B-school 101
            by Conan Tobias
            Things are looking up for MBAs
            2004-10-25
            When Canadian Business last examined the state of business education
            in Canada, things looked fairly bleak. Despite being the crème de la
            crème of master's degrees in the late 1990s, the 21st century had
            not been nearly as kind to MBA programs. Enrolment was dropping, and
            those who had spent nearly two years and up to a year's salary (or
            more) obtaining the degree found themselves in a weak job market and
            a stalled economy, where MBAs were not only considered a joke, but
            openly mocked on national television. And while things weren't much
            better in the United States, Canada's top MBA schools were the ones
            finding themselves with plummeting international reputations.
            Twelve months later, things haven't exactly taken a 180-degree turn,
            but at least they seem to have shifted in the right direction, with
            many in the industry anticipating an upswing in the year to come.
            "MBA enrolment tends to be counter-cyclical to the economy, so the
            current year we're in, the numbers are down generally," says David
            Saunders, dean of the Queen's School of Business in Kingston, Ont.
            "But everything is suggesting the numbers will go up next year,
            partly because the numbers in the U.S. were up on the MBA side, and
            we tend to lag about one year behind them."
            Saunders, chair of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans,
            says he has watched this cyclical trend happen before--interest in
            MBA programs usually wanes once a decade. "This year was a tight
            year for a lot of schools," he adds. That may explain why so few
            decided not to raise their tuition this year. Among the highest
            tuition fees in the country, MBA programs continue to get bashed in
            the media for having price tags that far outweigh their perceived
            usefulness. This year, most schools chose to raise their tuition
            less than 10%--or, in many cases, not at all--following a lot of
            double-digit increases last year. (The exception is schools in
            Western Canada, which are still playing catch-up following several
            years of a government-imposed tuition freezes.)
            At the other end of the MBA assembly line, things are already
            starting to hit an upswing. Of the schools we surveyed, 25% are
            reporting a higher number than last year of students employed three
            months after graduation, with the University of Alberta, Carleton's
            Eric Sprott school in Ottawa, the University of Calgary's Haskayne
            school, the University of Toronto's Rotman school, the University of
            New Brunswick, the University of Ottawa and the University of
            British Columbia's Sauder school all reporting more than 90% of
            their 2004 graduates employed three months after graduation. (An MBA
            placement rate of about 70% is average in Canada.)
            Having a job is one thing, but the latest batch of graduates across
            the country are taking home smaller paycheques than their 2003
            counterparts. Of the 15 schools reporting salary information to
            Canadian Business this year, all but four saw a drop in the
            percentage change between how much money students were making upon
            entering their MBA programs and how much they were getting paid upon
            graduation. In fact, only six schools reported an increase in
            average starting salaries this year--which suggests employers aren't
            as willing to fork out the big bucks for MBA grads as they were just
            a few short years ago.
            And consider the international MBA rankings compiled by the business
            press: BusinessWeek, The Economist, the Financial Times, The Wall
            Street Journal, and Forbes. Unfortunately for Canada's biz schools,
            there are more arrows pointing down than up this year. While
            Schulich made the Wall Street Journal's ranking this year, it fell
            off BusinessWeek's--which saw HEC Montréal place for the first time.
            And while Queen's placed first in BusinessWeek's international
            ranking, it dropped in both the Economist and Financial Times. Other
            schools, including Rotman and Ivey, fell in more than one
            ranking--bad news given the importance these schools place in their
            international reputations.
            So, in short, while all the news isn't entirely good, things are
            definitely looking up. But with an unpredictable job market and
            lower levels of pay, potential students may want to give extra
            thought to exactly why they want to pursue an MBA.
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