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Excerpt from Clear Admit-- "To best meet the needs of candidates, we have refined the 2021-2022 application and also created a new element that is especially relevant. As we’ve found many applicants are ready to apply earlier than ever, we moved up our first two application deadlines by a month because we’re eager to provide decisions to those individuals as soon as we can. As far as our essays, we introduced a new prompt based on Stern’s brand call to action around embracing change – a prescient call we launched before the pandemic whose relevancy increased by the day. This essay gives candidates a creative opportunity to demonstrate how they align with our values and respond to change, a skill which is more important than ever for their future careers."

Excerpt from U.S. News -- "NYU's part-time MBA students may choose to participate in an accelerated two-year program that requires classes on weeknights, or they can pursue their MBA with a flexible timetable and take classes on either weeknights or Saturdays."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- "By the numbers, Stern enjoyed one of its best years ever during the 2020-2021 cycle. Notably, the school received 3,958 applications for a spot in the Class of 2023. That’s up 306 applications from the previous years. However, that’s not the best number. Stern’s acceptance rate dropped from 29% to 19%, making it one of the most selective MBA programs in the United States."

Excerpt from Executive Courses-- "Stern integrates real-world experience into the course too. 'We have the students work on cases in small groups and then work together, also in small groups, to create an ESG investment product using one of a variety of sustainable investing strategies we share with them,' says Whelan."
 
"Demand among executive participants is extremely high, she says, because it is becoming very clear that ESG issues will be affecting corporate performance and viability and thus investor performance for years to come."

Excerpt from MBA Schooled -- "Lisa Rios is the Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions at NYU Stern. This past month, NYU Stern’s Full-Time MBA program announced that they received an 8% increase in applications and welcomed 360 full-time MBA students into the class of 2023. During our conversation, Lisa spoke about some of the highlights from last year’s MBA application cycle at NYU Stern and some of her reflections and learnings on the application cycle."

In August, NYU Stern’s Master of Science in Quantitative Management (MSQM) Program, the first online Master’s in Management in the US at a top-ranked business school, welcomed the Class of 2022 and Class of 2023 to campus in NYC for one of two immersive residential opportunities that are part of the MSQM curriculum. 

Excerpt from Clear Admit-- "Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions Lisa Rios credits Stern’s applicant-centric approach and coronavirus response measures in adding additional test options and waivers for the increased demand and growth in the program. 'The combination of a more seamless process for applicants and continued strong demand for our rigorous program led to an 8% increase in applications as well as a total enrollment of 360 students in the Class of 2023,' said Dean Rios. That is up from 317 for the previous year."

Excerpt from BusinessBecause-- "In 2020, many business schools introduced waivers on standardized tests like the GMAT. However, according to Lisa Rios, assistant dean of admissions at NYU Stern, few students took up the offer.
 
'The overwhelming majority of applicants for Fall 2021 admitted a standardized test,' she says."

Excerpt from Find MBA--  "Stern leverages its unique location in New York City to facilitate opportunities for MBA students to solve real-world business problems. MBA students can, for instance, immerse themselves in an early-stage technology company, or work in partnership with a company to solve their most critical branding challenges. In addition, students can join the board of a nonprofit organization."

Excerpt from Find MBA-- “'We know they will need to reskill multiple times over the course of their careers,' says Bryan Ramos, assistant dean for experiential and global education at NYU Stern. 'Learning and reflecting through the experiential learning cycle helps students to build muscle they need to take into future learning environments.'”

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- "What did you love about the business school you attended? 'The people and the culture. Stern has a very collaborative and diverse culture. It was a great place for me to create friendships that will definitely last a lifetime.'"

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- "The part-time program has proved to be valuable for his job. 'I can come back to work the next morning and apply whatever it is that I’ve learned into my job,' he says, whether it’s strategy, accounting, or finance."

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants--  "As the table below shows, with the exception of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, which dropped one spot out of a tie for third place, the top seven schools remain ranked the same as last year: MIT Sloan School of Management second, UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business third, and two schools tied at fifth, NYU Stern School of Business and Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business, just as they were last year."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--  ""Here at Stern, where I’m earning my MBA, IQ + EQ (intelligence and emotional quotients) is a core value. Sternies are living testaments to these qualities. Not only does the entire application require a minimum of 2 EQ endorsements, your essays and interviews need to showcase them as well. Stern also has a smaller cohort (our class size is 320). This creates a more tight-knit community; you’re not just another face nor number. Being in the most diverse city in the world, it attracts people who crave diversity or embody it. EQ is not something that’s desired at Stern, it’s necessary."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- “If you’re Stern, you’ve got to like where things are headed in the full-time MBA. For a bonus, the new class set a school record for average Graduate Management Admission Test score, putting Stern in rarefied company in that key metric, too."

"The 'applicant-centric approach' will continue in the next admissions cycle, Rios says, noting that ‘the combination of a more seamless process for applicants and continued strong demand for our rigorous program’ led to the 8% increase in applications and the enrollment of 360 students in the Class of 2023, up from 317 last year and even surpassing the 359 who enrolled in fall 2019.’”

Excerpt from BusinessBecause-- “'People are getting exposed to remarkable content from around the world that five,10, 15 years ago, there’s no way they would have watched,'” Paul [Hardart] points out. “'I'm hopeful that it’s engendering empathy, and an understanding of different cultures.'”

Excerpt from BusinessBecause-- "Geeta Menon, professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, agrees that using celebrity influencers can be a great way to access certain population groups. “'It’s important to disconnect vaccines from politics. It shouldn’t be about your political leanings,' she says."

Excerpt from Financial Times-- "When Michael Posner proposed creating a human rights centre at New York University, he firmly deflected suggestions that it should be based at the law school. Instead, in 2013, he established the Center for Business and Human Rights at Stern School of Business, where he is Jerome Kohlberg professor of ethics and finance. It was the first such entity at a business school."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--  "I felt NYU Stern had the greatest diversity of student body and professors. I attended an information session and saw that the people there were interested in learning and growing as a group, not just individually."

Excerpt from Find MBA--  "The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights was setup in 2013 in New York City. The first center dedicated to human rights at a business school, it has developed a series of MBA courses, teaching models and tools focused on addressing human rights challenges  across economic sectors."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--  "Before joining NYU Stern, Lance Banks launched a San Francisco comedy festival, Clusterfest, which attracted performers like Tiffany Haddish and Julio Torres."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants--  "NYU, as a wider university, houses some of the most artistic and creative collectives in the world. I believe this “poet DNA” organically embeds itself into NYU Stern’s more quant, data-driven curriculum. Many aspects of business today tend to be mundane or outdated and require the type of creativity or out-of-the-box thinking that Stern provides its students to foster innovation. As I began to explore different MBA programs, I was keen on finding a school that challenges the status quo. Stern’s belief to embrace change, if not create it, immediately resonated with me."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants-- "Stern’s Executive MBA: Washington, DC program offered at NYU’s DC location provided me with the opportunity to learn from top professors from the institution and earn the same MBA degree without having to travel to New York City. The way the program is structured (meets one weekend a month), I was able to maintain a work life balance and allot time throughout the month to work on class projects and assignments."

Excerpt from Accepted.com-- "So the two-year, full-time MBA program is really geared towards helping folks make a transition in their career and helping elevate them to that next phase of their professional life. For some folks it’s a career pivot, and then for others, it’s folks that are looking to build out a skill set so that they can continue to move up the proverbial ladder, as I’m sure you’ve seen as you’re connecting with prospective students.
 
The thing that I love about Stern is the experiential components of the program: the fact that the students have the opportunity to put into action what they’re learning in the classroom with real problems and providing solutions for real organizations. You’ll see this through our experiential learning suite of options. I know you spoke with us last year when we launched our Change:Studio which has a number of opportunities for students to put some solutions into practice for real organizations."