GME Degree Program – Elimination
Articles in this category focus on anything that is related to the elimination of GME degree program. Content is listed in chronological order by publication date.
Number of content items in this category is 30.
The End Of The Executive MBA As We Know It
Summary: The Executive MBA is undergoing a fundamental transformation, shifting from knowledge delivery to building leaders’ judgment under pressure amid complexity and uncertainty. Traditional content-focused programs fall short in training decision-making in real-time ambiguity, resilience, and adaptability. Leading schools are embracing experiential, simulation-based learning integrated with AI and neuroscience to cultivate cognitive agility and continuous transformation. The future EMBA emphasizes capability development over course completion, embedding learning within actual leadership challenges. Programs that foster adaptability, cross-disciplinary thinking, and practical application equip executives to lead effectively in volatile, ambiguous environments, marking a move toward...
Indiana colleges, universities eliminate or merge hundreds of degrees that don’t attract enough students
Summary: Indiana’s public universities are eliminating, suspending, or merging 661 degree programs by 2026-27 due to low graduation rates and declining student interest, following state-mandated reviews. Targeted programs represent a small share of enrollments and include associate through doctoral degrees. Students currently enrolled may finish their degrees, but new admissions will cease. These changes aim to streamline offerings, improve alignment with student demand and workforce needs, and enhance program viability and transparency. This reflects a growing trend in higher education to right-size academic portfolios for greater efficiency and relevance amid shifting enrollment patterns. Observations: Degree program reviews are increasingly driven by graduation outcomes and enrollment...
Indiana colleges cut hundreds of low-enrollment degree programs ahead of state mandate
Summary: Indiana's public colleges and universities are eliminating, suspending, or consolidating over 400 academic degree programs due to a state mandate for higher education institutions to meet minimum enrollment and completion rates. This move, impacting nearly one in five degree programs across six institutions, aims to align academic offerings more closely with workforce demands and increase the value of higher education. Affected areas include various undergraduate and graduate degree programs, particularly those with low student participation, across disciplines such as foreign languages, literature, microbiology, and political science. Observations: The shift towards prioritizing degree programs with higher enrollment signals a potential reassessment of academic offerings'...
Lack of demand forces HEC to cut English MBA program
Summary: HEC Montréal is suspending its English MBA program for the 2025-26 academic year due to declining international student interest, driven by Canadian government caps on study permits and Quebec’s legislation limiting international student admissions. Enrollment in the English MBA cohort fell sharply, making continuation unsustainable. The school plans to launch a bilingual French-English cohort in 2026-27 to attract diverse candidates and foster intercommunity exchanges. While the decision reflects external pressures, HEC Montréal remains recognized for its global standing, ranking consistently among the top MBA programs in Canada. Efforts to adapt underscore the school’s commitment to diversity and international mobility. Observations: Government policies regulating study...
Rankings Success Couldn’t Save This Full-Time MBA Program. A Long-Time Dean Explains Why
Summary: University of Houston's Bauer College is suspending its full-time MBA program, pivoting to prioritize its Professional, Online, and Executive MBA formats. This strategic move, sparked by shifting market demands and a decline in full-time applications, aims to allocate resources more effectively. Associate Dean Leiser O. Silva notes the decision reflects widespread industry trends toward flexible and cost-effective education models, a choice underscored by growing success in part-time and online programs. Observations: Full-time MBA programs are resource-intensive and can be unsustainable without strong demand. Shifting student preferences indicate a greater value placed on flexible and affordable MBA formats such as online and part-time programs. Despite favorable rankings, the...
UD plans for fewer students, employee reductions in new reality of higher-ed
AI Assisted Content Summary: A global survey by the Digital Education Council has revealed that a majority of college students fear the overuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education could diminish the value of their education and negatively impact academic performance. While AI-driven solutions like ChatGPT are used regularly by 86% of students, there's widespread concern over the precise role AI should play in learning. The survey also highlighted a lack of clear AI guidelines from universities, resulting in confusing messages to students about its permissible use. Key points to consider: Over 55% of students believe that excessive reliance on AI could devalue their education. 52% feel overuse of AI negatively affects their academic performance. Just 18% of students see...
Sacramento State suspends a graduate program for business executives, citing low enrollment
AI Assisted Content Summary Sacramento State has halted its Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program due to persistently low enrollment, which failed to meet the required break-even point. The program, self-funded and needing around 30 students per cohort, could not attract enough participants, managing only 13 in its latest class. Accepted applicants have been redirected to the traditional MBA or online iMBA with offers of tuition refunds. Notably, other graduate programs in Business Analytics, Finance, and Accountancy remain in demand. Observations Self-supporting graduate programs must maintain sufficient enrollment to meet financial viability. Alternatives like traditional MBA or online options may appeal more to potential students. Specific graduate business...
Alverno College declares financial emergency, plans to cut majors and graduate programs
AI Assisted Content Summary: Alverno College, facing a financial emergency, is reducing its academic offerings by eliminating one-third of its majors and one-quarter of its graduate programs. The College's Board of Trustees views these cuts as essential steps towards financial sustainability. This restructure includes terminating 25 full-time faculty and 12 staff members, despite running deficits over several recent years. Retention of some core programs is planned, with a specific focus on areas such as nursing, education, and business. All current undergraduates can finish their majors, but 25 graduate students will need to seek program completion through affiliations with other institutions. Key points to consider: Alverno College declares a financial emergency. One-third of majors...
University of Lynchburg to cut 17 programs, dozens of faculty and staff positions
AI Assisted Content Summary: In an effort to address financial challenges and adapt to a changing higher education landscape, the University of Lynchburg announced the elimination of 17 academic programs and a significant reduction in faculty and staff positions. This restructuring reflects the university's strategic move towards a more efficient operational model, focusing on the needs of its students, faculty, and staff. Amidst declining enrollment and a pressing $12 million deficit, reductions include 12 undergraduate programs, five graduate programs, and 25 minors, affecting about 5% of undergraduates and 4% of graduate students. Key areas impacted are business studies, community and nonprofit leadership, diversity strategies, and various education specializations. The decision...
BGSU ready to pull the plug on Executive MBA – BG Independent News
AI Content Summary: Bowling Green State University (BGSU) will likely discontinue its Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program after nearly 50 years, as the upcoming graduation of a dozen students marks the program's prospective conclusion. The Faculty Senate moved to halt admissions, awaiting a final decision from the BGSU Board of Trustees in May. The program's suspension is due to dwindling enrollment, exacerbated by the successful launch of an Online MBA program in 2020 which attracted over 300 students even post-pandemic. This shift left the EMBA with just five new students in fall 2023, leading to a class suspension and an offer for those students to join the online program, with some accepting the change. Why You May Want To Read This Content: Insight into...
Notre Dame Axes Its One-Year MBA Program
AI Assisted Content Summary: Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business has decided to discontinue its one-year MBA program after the current academic year, despite its financial viability and popularity among prospective students who, for the first time, have expressed a preference for one-year formats over two-year MBAs. The decision is part of a strategic shift towards prioritizing the college's two-year MBA program, as part of an ongoing review aimed at optimizing and elevating its graduate portfolio. This move comes amid broader trends in business education, including other top schools like Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management revising their MBA offerings. Notre Dame remains committed to supporting its final cohort through to graduation and emphasizes the lifelong importance...
Notre Dame business school to launch Global EMBA
Citation: Elliott, Carol. “Notre Dame Business School to Launch Global EMBA.” Notre Dame News, August 14, 2023. https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-business-school-to-launch-global-emba/. Copy.ai Content Summary: The University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business is set to launch a revamped Executive MBA program called the Notre Dame Global EMBA in fall 2024. This program aims to provide working professionals with deeper global leadership experience through a two-year curriculum featuring international residencies. To enhance the international exposure, Global EMBA students will participate in a minimum of two international immersions across different continents. Applications are now open for the Global EMBA Class of 2026, marking the end of the college's EMBA program in Chicago....
IIM-Ahmedabad May Phase Out Its Two-Year MBA
Byrne, John A. “IIM-Ahmedabad May Phase Out Its Two-Year MBA.” Poets&Quants, November 14, 2022. https://poetsandquants.com/2022/11/14/iim-ahmedabad-may-phase-out-its-two-year-mba/?pq-category=mba. Extracted Content: The Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad (IIMA) expects its two-year MBA program to be phased out over the next ten years, according to Director Errol D’Souza. Long one of India’s leading MBA options, IIM has been losing ground more recently in the Financial Times‘ annual MBA ranking. The school’s MBA program ranked 62nd in te world in this year’s FT list, down 32 places over the past five years. In 2017, IIM Ahmedabad’s MBA ranked as high as 29th best globally, well above the IIM MBA option at Bangalore which now is ranked higher in 53rd place. The Indian School...
Penn State Smeal College of Business to transform resident MBA program
Written by: Andy Elder Published by: Smeal College of Business on 8/22/2022 MBA News Digest Comment: The program is going from a two year program to a one year program and then replacing another program. Extracted Content: The Penn State Smeal College of Business announced today (Aug. 22) its intention to implement changes to its full-time resident master’s degree in business administration that will enhance the college’s growing portfolio of professional graduate programs and strengthen its strategic focus on lifelong learning. According to Charles Whiteman, John and Karen Arnold Dean, the college intends to transition its two-year resident MBA to a one-year MBA with a STEM designation aimed at early-career professionals starting in the fall of 2023. The new degree, which would also...
Scranton to Offer First Ph.D. Degree
Written by: University of Scranton Published by: Royal News on 7/22/2022 MBA News Digest Comment: Interesting move, converting a D.B.A. to a Ph.D. in Accounting. Extracted Content: The University of Scranton’s Board of Trustees have approved the change of the doctoral business administration degree to a Ph.D. in Accounting degree beginning with the 2022-2023 academic year. The curriculum and degree requirements will remain the same. This is the first Ph.D. degree to be offered at Scranton. The business doctoral degree, which the University began in 2017 and graduated its first cohort of students in 2021, has already been internationally recognized when in 2019 the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) listed the program among the “Innovations and...
Cottrell MBA going online in fall 2022
Written by: Denise Ray Published by: University of North Georgia on 5/4/2022 MBA News Digest Comment: It appears UNG is phasing out the face-to-face program and completely replacing it with the online program. Extracted Content: The University of North Georgia's (UNG) Cottrell Master of Business Administration (MBA) program will be offered online for new students starting this fall. UNG will continue to provide in-person courses for students already in the program who prefer to continue in that modality. Dr. Mary Gowan, dean of the Mike Cottrell College of Business (MCCB), said the number of alumni who wanted a second degree from UNG but don't live near one of the school's campuses drove the decision. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source
Notre Dame graduate business school evolves program offerings to meet changing STEM landscape
Written by: Carol Elliott Published by: Notre Dame MBA News Digest Comment: It is rare for a B-School or University to announce they will no longer offer a dual-degree. Extracted Content: Since earning its first STEM designation in 2017, the Mendoza College of Business has continued to evolve STEM-related options available to students. As a result, the Notre Dame MBA will no longer offer the dual-degree MBA/Master of Science in Business Analytics program as of the 2022 academic year. The decision was made primarily due to changes in the full-time Notre Dame MBA program that have created a variety of STEM options within the MBA program without the need to complete two degrees, as well as reduced demand for the dual-degree option in recent years. Click Here to Read More Via Original...
Dual Five-Year Baccalaureate–MBA Program eliminated
Written by: Mae Monette Published by: Vanderbilt Hustler on 9/27/2021 MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The Dual Five-Year Baccalaureate–MBA program (3+2 program) is no longer offered by Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management (Owen) and the College of Arts and Science (A&S). Per an email to The Hustler from Andrea Hearn, the assistant dean of undergraduate education in A&S, the program allowed students to combine three and a half years of study in A&S with one and a half years in Owen to obtain both a baccalaureate degree and MBA degree in five years. “There was extremely low interest in the 3+2 program,” Director of MBA Admissions Bailey McChesney said. “We received less than a handful of applicants—if that—every year.” Click Here to Read More Via...
Regents approve University of Iowa Graduate School program terminations, name changes
Written by: Sabine Martin Published by: The Daily Iowan MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The University of Iowa will terminate an international program in Hong Kong, create a new graduate program, and change a program’s name after approval from the state Board of Regents Wednesday. The termination of the UI’s Executive Master’s of Business Administration Program with the Hong Kong Learning Center was supported by the regents, along with the UI’s other two requests. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source
Covid-19 Prompted Purdue University to Shut Its M.B.A. Program. More Closures Are Expected.
Written by: Patrick Thomas Published by: The Wall Street Journal MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Several U.S. business schools have closed their struggling full-time M.B.A. programs in recent months, and the coronavirus outbreak may endanger more. Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management in Indiana said last month that it would stop admitting students to its two-year resident M.B.A. program for the 2021 academic year, making it one of the most high-profile schools yet to close its program. The news followed announcements by the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business and the University of St. Thomas’s Opus College of Business in Minnesota, both of which said they wouldn’t admit a new M.B.A. class this fall. Click Here to Read More Via Original...
Purdue Pauses Its Money-Losing, Rank-Sinking Residential MBA
Written by: John Byrne Published by: Poets&Quants MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Once among the top 30 MBA programs in the U.S., Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management today (June 15) effectively tossed in the towel on its two-year residential MBA offering. The decision to at least temporarily shut down the program comes after years of application declines, enrollment drops, red ink, and a freefall in U.S. News‘ rankings. The decision will not impact this year’s incoming class nor returning second-year MBA students. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source
MU College of Business MBA program suspended for low enrollment
Written by: Jessica Blake Published by: Missourian MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: MU’s Trulaske College of Business announced a year-long suspension of its Crosby Masters of Business Administration program due to decreased enrollment in a letter to students Monday. The school will not take on an incoming cohort for the fall 2020 semester; however, the suspension will not impede the progress towards graduation of current students. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source
University of St. Thomas suspending enrollment in full-time MBA program
Written by: Patrick Kennedy Published by: StarTribune MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The University of St. Thomas has suspended enrollment into its full-time MBA and master’s in accountancy programs, attributing the decision to shifting demographics and demands of its students. The steps, along with some other consolidation actions, will lead to the elimination of 19 jobs. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source
Sambalpur University may scrap MBA in Rural Management course
Written by: Express News Service Published by: The New Indian Express MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Sambalpur University is likely to discontinue the MBA in Rural Management course from 2020-21 academic session due to cold response from students.The department of Business Administration has already applied to the university authorities for discontinuation of the course. The PG course in Rural Management was introduced in a self-financing mode with a capacity of 40 seats in 2012. Initially, the course was started under the aegis Sociology department. However, it was transferred to Business Administration department in 2014 after failing to find any takers in the first two years. Though a few applications were received for the programme in the following years, it was...
More Universities Shut Down Traditional M.B.A. Programs as Popularity Wanes
Content written by Kelsey Gee and published by The Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Applications to full-time M.B.A. programs have been falling in the strong job market, leading business schools to shift resources online. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source
Why Business Schools Are Shutting Down Their MBA Programs
Content written by John Byrne and published by Forbes. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business has become the latest school to announce that it is getting out of the full-time, on-campus MBA market. Instead, Gies will focus more aggressively on its online MBA option, the $22,000 iMBA, which has seen big growth since being launched in 2015 (see Illinois To End Full- And Part-Time MBA Programs On Campus). Why is Gies giving up on its full-time MBA? For one thing, the school admits it is losing money on the program. While it may surprise many observers given how high tuition rates are for MBA programs, many of these programs are actually loss leaders or “show” programs to get a U.S. News ranking. Secondly, applications to most...
Illinois Will End Residential M.B.A. in Favor of Online Program
Content written by Scott Jaschik and published by Inside Higher Ed. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced Friday that it plans to shut down its residential M.B.A. programs -- full-time and part-time -- to focus on its online M.B.A., which it calls the iMBA. The move still requires formal university approval, but the announcement is a sign of the shift going on in business education -- in many cases away from traditional M.B.A. programs. Several universities have scaled back or eliminated such programs and focused instead on online or one-year master's programs in business-related fields. Applications to the iMBA program have tripled from 1,100 when the program started in 2016. The total cost for the iMBA is $22,000....
University of Iowa graduates last full-time MBA class
Content written and published by The Gazette. MBA News Digest Comment: A Dean that did not back down. Extracted Content: In the lead-up to the school’s Saturday ceremony, representatives from the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa designed a T-shirt as a gift for graduating class members. “Iowa full-time MBA: You can’t get in,” the shirt reads — a nod not just to the college’s prestige but also to the fact the university students who received full-time professional masters of business administration this weekend will be the last. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source
Fast-track professional MBA program may deactivate by 2020
Content written by Jeremy Wells and published by Pipe Dream. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Binghamton University’s fast-track progression MBA (PMBA) program, located in New York City, allows students to receive a master’s in business administration in one year. However, after a recent Faculty Senate decision to deactivate the program by 2020, students may no longer be able to participate. On Feb. 26, the Faculty Senate unanimously voted to deactivate the fast-track PMBA program to make room for a revision of the University’s executive MBA (EMBA) program at SUNY College of Optometry, where the PMBA program is currently housed. Although the Faculty Senate vote does not necessarily mean the deactivation will take place, it could push University officials to take action...
Middlebury College to cut 10 percent of staff salaries
Content written by Lola Duffort and published by The VT Digger. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Middlebury College officials say they hope to trim spending on staff salaries by about $8 million – about 10 percent of what is currently spent – through voluntary buyouts. Officials have looked for savings elsewhere than personnel cuts. The school this fall closed 51 Main, a college-owned restaurant in downtown Middlebury that had been losing money for several years. It is also shuttering an MBA program at its Monterey location, and senior administrators’ salaries have been frozen for the past two years, Burger said. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source Click Title Above & Login to Leave a Comment