Millennial M.B.A.s Prompt a Shift In Approach, Services at Business Schools. Jobs heat up for MBA grads

Here come the millennials — the next big wave of M.B.A. students.

Born between the early 1980s and 2002, and just starting to reach the prime age for a master-of-business-administration degree, the millennial generation is of keen interest to both business schools and corporate recruiters because of differences in its expectations, skills and attitudes about work.

"The millennials are fascinating people and represent a new challenge for both business schools and companies," says Daphne Atkinson, a vice president at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). "What happens when a group that has always felt sought after, needed and indispensable arrives in the workplace with higher expectations than any generation before it?"

By Ronald Alsop

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Jobs heat up for MBA grads

By Elliot Blair Smith, USA TODAY

Former JPMorgan Chase private banker Adam Bernstein dropped out of Wall Street two years ago to pursue an MBA degree at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business.

Today, four months before the class of 2006’s cap-and-gown ceremony, the Hanover, N.H., campus is covered in snow. Bernstein, 28, doesn’t have a job yet. But by the time he graduates, the demand for new MBAs is expected to be at the highest level since the Internet bubble burst a half-decade ago, according to college career counselors and recruiters.

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