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More applications come in for business and law schools
In the previous admission cycle, only 23 percent of respondents from full-time American M.B.A. programs said they saw an increase in applications. Results from the previous two years had hovered around that number. Last year deferrals were also up, affecting institutional yield rates.
While an M.B.A. or other business degree may have always been the goal for many students, at least some were spurred by conditions in the workforce. In a survey of 2,515 prospective students in graduate management education, GMAC found that more than one-third said they were just now applying to graduate school because they lacked the skills or degree to be competitive in a job they wanted.