Park and Zupan said first-year students are expressing more interest in fields beyond finance.
All the first-year students at the Airship Academy had been shipped out on two-week training tours to study navigation.
Next fall, the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business will provide a required course to teach first-year students how to view business issues in a global context.
At Wharton, women accounted for 40 percent of first-year enrollment, at Stanford University, women made up 39 percent of the entering business school class and at Harvard women accounted for 36 percent of first-year students.
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After all, it was an unusual assignment, especially because 16 first-year MBA students would do much of the fieldwork.
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In 1995, the top five draft selections were four first-year college students and a student in his final year of high school.
After 1986 I felt like a skilled surgeon who's been locked out of the operating room and watches through the glass in horror as some first-year medical students go to work on a patient.
Mr. Holmes entered the program in June 2011 and was one of six first-year neuroscience doctoral students.
His education agenda includes a plan to make college affordable for more Americans by paying first-year tuition for students who work part time.
The change was most marked for part-time students starting the first year of postgraduate courses, where some 14% fewer students enrolled in 2011-12 than the year before.
Yet Carleton's target of a first-year enrolment of 4, 800 students by 2000 is still in doubt, in part because higher fees and fewer government scholarships have cut the number of foreign students (as indeed they have across Canada, from 38, 000 to 32, 000 in four years).
At Piedmont High School in the Oakland Hills, there are 14 students in this first-year Mandarin class, a mixture of Asian, white, African-American and Indian.
Our first year in Houston, two-thirds of students came to KIPP with a "bilingual" label.
However the number of full-time postgraduate students starting their first year remained static at 207, 665, resulting in an overall fall in first-year postgraduates of 5%.
Once accredited this year, the school projects a 60-student inaugural first-year student class in 2013 to eventually grow to 125 students in each class for a total of 500, a university spokesman said in an interview.
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Extra first year work will not necessarily damage students' eventual A-level grades, she argues - on the basis that under the old system, those who had dropped from studying three subjects to two had not necessarily got better results.
Many universities base their offers of places to students on the results of AS-levels which are taken in the first year of sixth form study.
This year for the first time, the center's two-year master of fine art's program admitted about 20 students, and next year will admit an additional 30.
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