Graduate Business Program Admission Criteria and Student Graduate Academic Performance

26 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2015 Last revised: 6 Dec 2016

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Regina Lizares

University of the Philippines, Diliman

Leila Rahnema

University of the Philippines, Diliman

Mia Pang-Rey

University of the Philippines, Diliman

Ivy Suan

University of the Philippines, Diliman

Carlos C Bautista

University of the Philippines, Diliman

Date Written: July 2016

Abstract

The study evaluates a graduate business program by examining the student’s graduate academic performance and its admission procedure using several econometric procedures. The study shows that successful student’s graduate academic performance in the University of the Philippines’ graduate business program, both the Master in Business Administration (MBA) and MS Finance (MSF) degrees, can be consistently explained by the student’s past undergraduate academic performance and the quantitative aptitude test score. Reading and logic, the two other measures of individual ability, do not seem to have a bearing on the student’s graduate academic performance. Hence it is possible that altering the relative weights of the three test scores may change the profile of successful applicants and at the same time improve the overall efficacy of the admission procedure.

Keywords: Graduate Admission, Academic Performance, Sample Selection Bias, Philippines

JEL Classification: I21

Suggested Citation

Lizares, Regina and Rahnema, Leila and Pang-Rey, Mia and Suan, Ivy and Bautista, Carlos C, Graduate Business Program Admission Criteria and Student Graduate Academic Performance (July 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2550594 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2550594

Regina Lizares

University of the Philippines, Diliman ( email )

Virata School of Business
U.P. Diliman, Quezon City, 1100
Philippines

Leila Rahnema

University of the Philippines, Diliman ( email )

Virata School of Business
U.P. Diliman, Quezon City, 1100
Philippines

Mia Pang-Rey

University of the Philippines, Diliman ( email )

Virata School of Business
U.P. Diliman, Quezon City, 1100
Philippines

Ivy Suan

University of the Philippines, Diliman ( email )

Virata School of Business
U.P. Diliman, Quezon City, 1101
Philippines

Carlos C Bautista (Contact Author)

University of the Philippines, Diliman ( email )

Virata School of Business
UP Diliman Campus
Quezon City, 1101
Philippines

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