If you’re interested in doing business internationally or just getting some diversified cultural experience, getting your MBA in a foreign land may be exactly the right thing to do.

Erin O’Conner has an excellent article at Jungle that covers the whole shebang about international MBAs, so you’ll want to check out.

As business becomes more and more global, so does business education. Graduate education in business administration was once a primarily American and Western European phenomenon, but programs are now springing up all over the world. And as more top U.S. schools open international campuses and partner with international firms, foreign business schools are responding to the competition by improving the quality and breadth of their programs. Today you can get an MBA just about anywhere…

Studying Abroad: Getting an MBA Overseas

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Upon investigating though, I found that it is not really as easy as I thought it would be. Librarians of today have more going through their pretty heads than the Dewey Decimal system. If you want to become a librarian, you need a master’s degree, and the competition is fierce!

For Library Studies programs, you can specialize in any of these areas:

• Archives and Preservation
• Digital Librarianship
• Health Librarianship
• Information Systems
• Law Librarianship
• School Library Media
• Services for Children and Youth

Your top ranking graduate schools for Library Studies in 2008 are: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and Syracuse University (NY)

To find the top ranked graduate schools for your specialty, check out the other Library Studies Graduate School rankings.

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1. Harvard University (MA)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
5. Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL)
5. University of Chicago
7. Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH)
8. University of California–Berkeley (Haas)
9. Columbia University (NY)
10. New York University (Stern)

To find the top ranked graduate schools for your specialty, check out the other Business School rankings.

If you love editing friends’ chapters and arguing about their ideas, if you find that being immured in a carrel for long days and nights with several hundred books is oddly exciting, then you have good reason to think about making another, longer dive into the scholarly deep. But don’t jump before you find out exactly what lies below.

–Anybody Thinking of Graduate School?

Rhode Island School of Design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Yale University

If you have a speciality such as ceramics, sculpture, graphic design, industrial design, painting/drawing, photography, printmaking or multimedia communications, there are a whole slew of schools that stand out from the crowd.

To find the top ranked graduate schools for your specialty, check out the other Fine Arts Graduate School rankings.

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Where would your income come from? Would you be able to swing living on financial aid and some sort of part-time job or TA position and keep up with your courses? A lot of people do it, but it’s stressful.

Where is the location of the schools you are applying for? Will you be able to get instate tuition, or will you have to work for a year to establish residency before applying? If you are like me, and already own a home, are you willing to sell or rent your place and relocate? The last question is something I have really been struggling with, both in my job search and deciding on prospective schools.

Job with Tuition Reimbursement

What are the conditions of the reimbursement? Will you have to pay out of pocket, and then the company will reimburse you once they see you have completed your classes? Are you financially prepared for expenses like that, or will you still need to take out a loan? Some companies, like X Publishing, require an employee to stay with the company for a certain number of years after graduation. Are you ready to make that kind of commitment?

Will the company you are working for allow you some sort of flexibility to attend class, or are you better off looking for an online program that will allow you to work on your own time?

These are a few of the things I will be thinking about over the weekend as I continue my job search and my research on grad programs I might apply to. Stay tuned!

One site I’ve found particularly useful is called MBA Schools. With the ever looming recession there are tons of good reasons to get an MBA, they just reinforced it for me right off the bat.

“MBA graduates can look forward to rosier job prospects and higher starting salaries.”18% more MBA graduates were hired in 2006 than in 2005, and base salaries jumped to over $80,000, with total compensation packages coming in just a shade under $100,000. Most colleges offering MBA degrees report an increase from business recruiters of 10 to 30%.

I spent about an hour just this morning digging through the resources they have on this site. I personally would like to stay in California where I currently attend college at San Diego City College, but I’m going to keep my options open. I like the possibility of taking a job out in the real world while I work on my MBA online and after hours. So that’s probably the route I will go.

MBA Schools, has a lot of possibilities as far as Grad Schools that I can attend locally or via distance learning. So I sent off for information from all the schools that I thought were a good fit for my major which is Computer Information Science and now I’m just waiting for a reply back.