{"id":1388,"date":"2009-03-15T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2009-03-15T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T16:24:29","slug":"mbas-appeal-grows-in-a-shrinking-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/03\/mbas-appeal-grows-in-a-shrinking-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA&#039;s appeal grows in a shrinking economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/mbas2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1389\" title=\"mbas2\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/mbas2.jpg\" alt=\"mbas2\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a>Add this number to the many fact and figures being bandied about during this recession: 246,957, the record-high number of GMAT exams administered to aspiring MBA candidates last year.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, numbers of test-takers show the volume looks to be even greater.<br \/>\n&#8221;Typically, people sit out economic downturns in school &#8212; business school is no different,&#8221; said Bob Ludwig, communications director for the Graduate Management Admissions Council, the organization that administers the GMAT, the standard prerequisite before business school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/PrintMarch2009\/mbas-appeal-grows-in-a-shrinking-economy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read MiamiHerald.com article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this number to the many fact and figures being bandied about during this recession: 246,957, the record-high number of GMAT exams administered to aspiring MBA candidates last year. So far this year, numbers of test-takers show the volume looks to be even greater. &#8221;Typically, people sit out economic downturns in school &#8212; business school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[694,697,1405,1446,1838],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}