Written by: John Byrne
Published by: Poets&Quants
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: For the past 18 years, the Institute for Management Development (IMD) has enrolled a small, intimate cohort of just 90 MBA students. The highly ranked business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, is now extending its final application deadline of Sept. 1 by up to ten days in an effort to enroll its largest class ever of 100 students who would start the one-year MBA program in January.
The decision to increase the size of the incoming class occurs at a time when IMD is one of a very small number of business schools that is largely running face-to-face MBA courses during the pandemic. Seán Meehan, dean of the school’s MBA program, decided to move to a slightly larger cohort after a change in the school’s strategy for dealing with MBA coursework during COVID.