The other scenario is that your full-time applicants are put off by the idea, saying that it dilutes the reputation of the full-time program.
But prolonged economic uncertainty is leaving many prospective students wary of the significant investment of both time and money required for a two-year, full-time program.
To assess the impact of these changes, and better understand what MBA admissions are looking for in their applicants, I asked Pete Johnson, former executive director of Admissions for the full-time program at Berkeley-Haas, and now colleague and advisory director at Fortuna Admissions, and vice president of Student Services at Central European University in Budapest for his perspective.
"As reflected in the latest FT rankings, 84 percent of the participants in the HKUST full-time MBA program are international students and it is one of the most international programs in the world in terms of student diversity, " he said.
Organizers say 5, 000 staff and union members from affiliated unions will be released to work full-time on the program.
Six years later it has 423 students in its full-time, one-year postgraduate business program.
So steeped are they in the work of real-life policymaking that many get offered full-time jobs in California's state government when they finish the 10-month program, which runs from October to September.
For example, Santa Clara University's part-time program has added two full-time career and financial counselors to its staff this year.
WSJ: Part-Time M.B.A. Programs Lend Students a Hand in Hard Times
Ms. Vasu-Devan, 28 years old, spent her summer there and joined the group's program-related investments arm full-time after graduation last year.
Bloomgarden, along with AfterSteps Chief Operating Officer and HBS classmate Emma Taylor, is working on the New York City-based business full-time this summer, as part of the DreamIT Ventures incubator program.
Last time, Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler kicked off a program full of amazing conversations, like a fireside chat with OUYA CEO Julie Uhrman.
Upon separating from active duty in the USMC in December 1989 to attend the University of South Carolina as a full-time student, I was introduced to veterans' homelessness through VA's Student Work Study Program where I worked twenty hours a week on behalf of homeless veterans to help them secure food, travel, shelter and life's basic needs.
A. graduating from a program of 12 to 18 months, as opposed to the two years for a full-time M.
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