What are more and more people thinking about as the economy continues to slow? You guessed it, school. The MBA is, of course, at the top of the list for many professionals who are looking to take advantage of the declining opportunities in the marketplace to prepare themselves with a business education - readying themselves for when the rebound come-around.
The MBA Tour, a worldwide tour that brings together between 20 and 25 business schools in one place, at one time, has grown in popularity; attendance was up 30% last year and Peter Von Loesecke, the founder of the Tour and MBA graduate from Cornell's Johnson School, believes that it will continue to grow even more rapidly as the economy worsens. It makes a lot of sense.
A graduate business education, like any other post-grad degree, requires that you take time away from your career and suffer the opportunity cost of that lost income in addition to the, sometimes, staggering tuition costs and related expenses. Clearly, then, the best time at which to take that on is when the opportunity costs are minimized. Whether they realize it yet or not, prospective MBAs are behaving like trained business people already; once they graduate, they'll understand the economics behind their prior motivations.
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