Owen students have begun MOD IV in fine form. A flurry of offers came in over spring break, and as of this writing, about 2/3 of the student body has at least one offer for a FT position or an Internship. On-campus recruiting has wound down, we are in the throes in the Just-In-Time Market, and those students still looking for that first offer are turning their attention to self-directed networking tactics. The South by Southeast Career Fair in Atlanta [...]

Vanderbilt once again made it into the top-30 MBA programs as ranked this year by U.S. News and World Report. While that marks a slight decrease from last year, it simply reflects the volatile, horse-race nature of rankings. (If you want to read more about the limitations of rankings, check out Malcolm Gladwell, the New York Times, or the B-School website Poets & Quants.) Here are a few highlights from this year’s ranking: • Owen’s overall index score was the [...]

For college undergraduates — and recent grads — looking for a crash course in business skills to help land a job, summer bridge programs offer enormous benefits, as the Wall Street Journal reports in a story today. Designed for students whose colleges don’t have an undergraduate business program, summer business institutes like Vanderbilt’s Accelerator help round out a traditional liberal-arts education for employers seeking candidates with relevant business skills. At Vanderbilt, for example, students receive 100 hours of classroom instruction [...]