Graduate Business Program Admission Criteria and Student Graduate Academic Performance
26 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2015 Last revised: 6 Dec 2016
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
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