近年美国商学院MBA课程申请人数下降，但这也意味着申请者被顶级商学院录取的几率提高了。
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’s to the tech made ’s of to .
硅谷与全球科技产业的联系使斯坦福大学商学院( of )对金伯利•曼宁( ，见文首照片)很有吸引力。
Yet the , whose had moved to from , her .
然而，这位从津巴布韦举家移民到澳大利亚的软件工程师放弃了她的申请。
① halt[hɔːlt] v. （使）停止，停下
例句：She him and then .她向他走去，然后停下。
“I the US to be to and from other ,” Ms says.
“我发觉美国对移民和来自其他文化的人群越来越敌对。”曼宁说。
The US is the of the MBA and home to 51 of the top 100 in the FT’s list. But the is five years into a fall off in , which has been in years to even the most well- , , and .
美国是MBA的诞生地，在英国《金融时报》全球排名前100位的商学院中，有51所美国院校。但这一市场的需求五年来一直在下降，近年就连斯坦福、哈佛商学院( )和沃顿()等最受尊敬的名校也面临需求下降。
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This year, are down at all but one of 10 of the in the FT’s . Booth of was the , with up 3.4 per cent this year. But its are still down from their level two years ago, as the an 8.2 per cent drop in 2018.
今年，在FT榜单上排名前10的商学院中，除一所外，其余商学院的申请人数均有所下降。唯一的例外是芝加哥大学布斯商学院( of Booth of )，该校今年的申请人数增长了3.4%。但这一数字仍低于两年前的水平，因为该校2018年的申请人数下降8.2%。
The of visa rules for and to under Trump’s are seen as the for MBA teams.
针对海外留学生的签证规则收紧，以及唐纳德•特朗普( Trump)政府对移民的敌意，被视为MBA招生团队面临的最大问题。
Ms , who has in -based start-ups since she from the of five years ago, will be for , not the US, this to start her MBA at the of . “I don’t feel and would be for a work visa,” she says. “But I don’t want to move to a with such .”
自5年前从昆士兰大学( of )毕业以来，曼宁一直在布里斯班的金融科技初创企业工作，明年1月，曼宁将前往法国，而不是美国，就读法国枫丹白露欧洲工商管理学院()的MBA课程。“我其实并不觉得自己是打击目标，我还有资格获得工作签证。”她说。“但我不想去一个实行如此公开敌意政策的国家。”
She is not alone in such a . ’s of , as the FT last month, has a 6 per cent fall in for its MBA. It cites and the US trade with China.
她并不是唯一做出这种决定的人。英国《金融时报》上月报道，斯坦福大学商学院MBA课程的申请人数下降了6%。该校将此归因于美国移民政策的收紧以及当下美中贸易摩擦的影响。
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A jobs has also the cost for would-be of and going to full time; a not by above- rises in fees.
活跃的就业市场也提高了申请者离职去读商学院的机会成本；超过通胀的学费涨幅对此也没有帮助。
②[ˈbɔɪənt] adj. 轻快的; 有浮力的; 上涨的
例句：Not all ride the , as the water from above with water depth. 不是所有有浮力的物体都能露在水面外，因为来自上面的水压随着水深而变化。
, there is also a that MBAs are no the most cost way to get on in a and that other now exist to gain what used to be of a .
然而，也有越来越多的人认为，MBA学位已不再是在职场上获得晋升的成本高效途径；曾经只能从商业教育收获的独特好处，如今还有其他途径可以获得。
Ng is a at , where he his MBA last year, and is also a for . One of the he sees to the MBA are the “ ” of the to those who are one: these MBA are the kind of who could build a and find a job other .
Ng是哈佛商学院的研究助理（去年他在该校完成了MBA课程），他也是哈佛大学本科生的职业顾问。在他看来美国商业学院 mba，MBA面临的最大挑战之一，就是MBA资质对于那些考虑就读该学位的人“好处并不明确”：这些潜在的MBA学员，正是那些能够通过其他渠道搭建人脉网络并找到工作的人。
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“I am not that a is ,” Mr Ng says. “I am for the , and life-long I made at HBS,” he says. “But, by and large, most I’ve have at best and they made the right long after they .”
“我不是说就读商学院没用。” Ng说。“我十分感激在哈佛商学院接受的教育、结识的导师与终身挚友。”他说。“但总的来说，我遇到的大多数考虑就读商学院的人最多具备不温不火的动力，而且在毕业后很久还在怀疑自己是否做出了正确决定。”
③ [ˌluːkˈwɔːm] adj. 冷淡的; 微温的; 不够热心的
例句：So in view of the , the by was . 所以从冷淡的评论来看，被微软收购出于意料。
The most give for an MBA fear of out on what have done, the to leave a job they hate, the to find a or wife — and they can, taken the Test exam and , to Mr Ng.
据 Ng介绍，哈佛学生给出的攻读MBA的最常见理由有：担心自己落后于朋友、渴望逃离自己讨厌的工作、找到另一半的机会——或者只是因为他们参加了管理学研究生入学考试(GMAT)并拿到高分。
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But he that these are not when the cost of for an MBA, which can run to $250,000 at like HBS, and the two years of full-time study to the .
但他告诫称，考虑到MBA的学习成本美国商业学院 mba，这些理由还不够充分，像哈佛商学院这样的名校的MBA学习成本可能高达25万美元，而完成学位需要两年全日制学习。
He says: “Like a spork, an ugly that is not to be a fork or round to be spoon, is so many to so many that it ends up being not much of to .”
他说：“就好比一只勺子与叉子的丑陋混合体，既没有叉子那么尖，也没有勺子那么圆，商学院对不同人有不同的意义，结果是对任何人都没什么意义。”
The in MBA in the US is a but far from being a for the . This year, for , 7,342 , down from 7,797 in 2018, for only 417 .
美国MBA申请人数的下降令人担忧，但对顶级商学院而言，情况还远非一场危机。例如，今年斯坦福收到了7342份申请，少于2018年的7797份，而招生名额只有417人。
, a -based at MBA Link, which to , sees the of as an they the odds of into top . “For those with the right test and the funds there has never been a time to apply to ,” he says.
为潜在学员提供建议的MBA Link驻新加坡的招生顾问劳伦斯•林克( )认为，申请人数下降是个机会，因为这增加了入读顶级商学院的几率。“对于那些成绩不错又资金充足的人来说，申请商学院的时机从来没有现在这么好。”他说。
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There have been other in the — an of women.
商学院的申请者也有些改变——女性越来越多了。
to , chief of the Forté , which to raise the of women in , there is a “slow but ” rise in on MBA .
复地基金会(Forté )的宗旨是提高商业教育中的女性比例。该组织的行政总裁埃利萨•桑斯特( )表示，全球就读MBA课程的女性比例在“缓慢但稳步地”上升。
A third of 52 had 40 per cent or more women for last year’s , up from just three in 2014, Ms notes. “We have seen a more focus on in the last five years,” she says.
桑斯特指出，在52所会员学校中，有三分之一的学校招收了40%或更多的女学员，而2014年仅有3所达到这一比例。“过去五年，我们看到院校更加重视增加性别多样性。”她说。
While Ms may have , this year, of has its most MBA , with women up 47 per cent of the , up 6 on 2018.
虽然曼宁可能已决定放弃申请，但今年斯坦福大学商学院MBA新生的性别平衡创下纪录：女性学员占47%，比2018年提高了6个百分点。
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This is the of years of to , such as to of women the US and for women, to Moss, dean of MBA and aid. “, and is a key for the GSB,” she says.
斯坦福大学商学院MBA招生与经济援助副院长克里斯汀•摩斯( Moss)表示，这是由于几年来该院加大力度鼓励女性申请者，例如面向美国以外的女性群体的外联活动，以及给予女学员奖学金支持。“多样性、公平与包容是斯坦福大学商学院优先考虑的问题。”她说。
aid for Ms who has been with her MBA costs at with a €20,000 Forté grant. “The MBA makes sense to me I want to get an , to do in the to help my home , ,” she says.
对曼宁来说，经济援助被证明十分重要，她在欧洲工商管理学院攻读MBA获得了复地基金会2万欧元的资助。“MBA课程对我来说很有意义，因为我想取得国际经验，希望将来能为我的祖国津巴布韦尽一份力。”她说。
The to her peers to is not money but to the MBA as a of on in their , she says.
她表示，对申请商学院的同龄人来说，最大的障碍不是金钱，而是对MBA无所谓的态度，不把MBA当作促进自己职业发展的一种方法。
“In the tech , few have an MBA.”
“在科技行业，很少有人拥有MBA学位。”
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