Five months after COVID-19 shut down business school campuses and curtailed spring instruction and graduation functions, Coronavirus cases are still surging across the United States. In fact, it’s worse than ever, with new case tallies rising nationally every day and the areas that had been spared so far suddenly finding themselves grappling with the fatal pandemic.
Schools that had planned to resume normal studies in the fall are reassessing. Some are moving up their start dates to the second week in August, with the objective to be done with the classes by Thanksgiving. Virtual learning will be the norm this winter; numerous schools that plan in-person classes have scheduled their finals tests to be held distantly. MBA applications are up in the midst of an apparent improvement in applicants’ chances to earn a seat in the otherwise highly selective programs — but deferrals and deferral requests are up, too, powered to some degree by most schools’ unwillingness to reduce costs.
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| Students worldwide are gearing up for Online Classes! |
US universities started moving to remote learning considering the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Some universities, like Yale, are planning for another remote semester, while others, like Rice, expect to reopen campus with social distancing guidelines in place.
In deciding what the fall 2020 semester will look like for MBAs and other students — in-person, online, or a hybrid approach — business schools are mostly following the lead of their universities and colleges.
The situation is very fluid, however, and could change if the pandemic worsens nationally or locally. Hypothetically, things could show signs of improvement too, though most B-schools are planning for the situation on the pessimistic side. Of the 100 B-schools on the list, 32 belong to universities and colleges with accelerated schedules that start in the second week of August and finish in-person instruction before Thanksgiving in late November — Cornell, Duke, Dartmouth, and Emory Goizueta are in this camp. Some, such as SMU Cox, American Kogod, Arizona Eller, and a handful of others, plan to finish their classes in late November, then conduct the final tests online.
A few have announced they will go in-person until Thanksgiving, then remote for the next three weeks or so, then proceed with online exams.
One thing schools are happy not to have to contemplate: visa revocation for international students — who comprise a substantial chunk of most U.S. MBA programs — who do not attend in-person classes. That threat evaporated last week.
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Here's what the top US colleges and universities have discussed for fall 2020 reopening plans so far: Source for this blog: Poets&Quants
| SCHOOL | CONTROL | STATE | STATUS | FALL 2020 CLASS START/END DATES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American (Kogod) | Private | DC | Proposing a hybrid model | August 15 to November 24; final exams online |
| Appalachian State (Walker) | Public | NC | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 24; final exams online |
| Arizona State (W.P. Carey) | Public | AZ | Proposing a hybrid model | August 20 to December 4 |
| Auburn (Harbert) | Public | AL | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 24 |
| Babson (Olin) | Private | MA | Considering a range of scenarios | August 24 to December 10 |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | Private | TX | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to November 25 |
| Bentley | Private | MA | Planning for in-person | August 31 to December 16 |
| Binghamton | Public | NY | Planning for in-person | August 26 to December 7 |
| Boise State | Public | ID | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 11 |
| Boston (Carroll) | Private | MA | Planning for in-person | August 31 to December 10 |
| Boston (Questrom) | Private | MA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 2 to December 10 |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | Private | UT | Proposing a hybrid model | August 31 to November 24 |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | Private | PA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 17 to December 17 |
| Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) | Private | OH | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 4 |
| Chapman (Argyros) | Private | CA | Planning for in-person | August 31 to December 12 |
| Clemson | Public | SC | Proposing a hybrid model | August 19 to December 4 |
| College of Charleston | Public | SC | Considering a range of scenarios | August 25 to November 24 |
| Columbia Business School | Private | NY | Proposing a hybrid model | September 7 to December 14 |
| Cornell (Johnson) | Private | NY | Proposing a hybrid model | September 2 to November 24 |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | Private | NH | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to November 20 |
| Duke (Fuqua) | Private | NC | Proposing a hybrid model | September 3 to November 17 |
| Emory (Goizueta) | Private | GA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 19 to November 24 |
| Florida State | Public | FL | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 4 |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | Private | NY | Planning for in-person | August 26 to December 4 |
| George Washington | Private | DC | Planning for in-person | August 31 to December 12 |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | Private | DC | Proposing a hybrid model | September 8 to December 14 |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | Public | GA | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 23 |
| Harvard Business School | Private | MA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 2 to December 3 |
| Howard University | Private | DC | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to November 25 |
| Indiana (Kelley) | Public | IN | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to November 12 |
| Iowa State (Ivy) | Public | IA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 17 to November 25 |
| Louisiana State-Baton Rouge (Ourso) | Public | LA | Planning for in-person | August 24 to December 5 |
| MIT (Sloan) | Private | MA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 1 to December 9 |
| Michigan State (Broad) | Public | MI | Proposing a hybrid model | September 2 to December 11 |
| New York (Stern) | Private | NY | Proposing a hybrid model | August 26 to December 9 |
| North Carolina State (Poole) | Public | NC | Planning for in-person | August 10 to November 13 |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | Private | MA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 9 to December 12 |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | Private | IL | Proposing a hybrid model | September 21 to December 4 |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | Private | IN | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 19 |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | Public | OH | Proposing a hybrid model | August 25 to December 4 |
| Oklahoma State (Spears) | Public | OK | Planning for in-person | August 17 to December 4 |
| Pennsylvania State (Smeal) | Public | PA | Planning for in-person | August 24 to December 11 |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | Private | CA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 31 to December 7 |
| Rice (Jones) | Private | TX | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 8 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | Private | NY | Planning for in-person | August 26 to November 24 |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark and New Brunswick | Public | NJ | Planning for online | September 1 to December 10 |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | Private | TX | Planning for in-person, but with exemptions for those preferring to learn remotely | August 24 to December 4; final exams online |
| Stanford GSB | Private | CA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 11 to December 4 |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | Private | NJ | Considering a range of scenarios | August 31 to December 11 |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | Private | NY | Planning for in-person | August 24 to November 24 |
| Temple (Fox) | Public | PA | Planning for in-person | August 24 to December 7 |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | Public | TX | Proposing a hybrid model | August 19 to November 24 |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | Private | TX | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 17 |
| Texas Tech (Rawls) | Public | TX | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 23 |
| Tulane (Freeman) | Private | LA | Planning for in-person | August 19 to November 24 |
| University at Buffalo-SUNY | Public | NY | Proposing a hybrid model | August 31 to December 21 |
| U of Alabama (Manderson) | Public | AL | Planning for in-person | August 19 to December 4 |
| U of Arizona (Eller) | Public | AZ | Planning for in-person | August 24 to December 9; final exams online |
| UC-Berkeley (Haas) | Public | CA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 19 to December 11 |
| UC-Davis | Public | CA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 30 to December 11 |
| UC-Irvine (Merage) | Public | CA | Planning for online | October 1 to December 11 |
| UCLA (Anderson) | Public | CA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 23 to December 11 |
| UC-Riverside (Anderson) | Public | CA | Proposing a hybrid model | October 1 to December 11 |
| UC-San Diego (Rady) | Public | CA | Proposing a hybrid model | October 1 to December 11 |
| U of Chicago (Booth) | Private | IL | Proposing a hybrid model | September 29 to November 24 |
| U of Colorado-Boulder (Leeds) | Public | CO | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 7 |
| U of Connecticut | Public | CT | Proposing a hybrid model | August 31 to December 7 |
| U of Denver (Daniels) | Private | CO | Proposing a hybrid model | September 12 to November 20 |
| U of Florida (Warrington) | Public | FL | Proposing a hybrid model | August 30 to December 11 |
| U of Georgia (Terry) | Public | GA | Planning for in-person | August 20 to November 24 |
| U of Houston (Bauer) | Public | TX | Considering a range of scenarios | August 24 to December 5 |
| U of Kansas | Public | KS | Planning for in-person | August 24 to November 24 |
| U of Kentucky (Gatton) | Public | KY | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 24 |
| U of Louisville | Public | KY | Proposing a hybrid model | August 17 to December 1 |
| U of Maryland-College Park (Smith) | Public | MD | Proposing a hybrid model | August 31 December 14 |
| U of Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg) | Public | MA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to November 20 |
| U of Miami (Herbert) | Private | FL | Planning for in-person | August 17 to November 20 |
| U of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross) | Public | MI | Proposing a hybrid model | August 31 to December 8 |
| U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Carlson) | Public | MN | Planning for in-person | September 8 to December 16 |
| U of Mississippi | Public | MS | Planning for in-person | August 24 to November 17 |
| U of Missouri (Trulaske) | Public | MO | Planning for in-person | August 24 to December 10 |
| U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) | Public | NC | Planning for in-person | September 4 to December 17 |
| U of Oklahoma (Price) | Public | OK | Planning for in-person | August 24 to December 11 |
| U of Oregon (Lundquist) | Public | OR | Planning for in-person | September 29 to December 7 |
| UPenn (Wharton) | Private | PA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 19 to December 9 |
| U of Pittsburgh (Katz) | Public | PA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 26 to December 7 |
| U of Rochester (Simon) | Private | NY | Considering a range of scenarios | August 26 to December 14 |
| U of South Carolina (Moore) | Public | SC | Planning for in-person | August 20 to December 1; final exams online |
| U of Southern California (Marshall) | Private | CA | Planning for online | August 17 to November 24 |
| U of Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam) | Public | TN | Proposing a hybrid model | August 19 to November 24; final exams online |
| U of Texas-Austin (McCombs) | Public | TX | Proposing a hybrid model | August 26 to December 7 |
| U of Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | Public | TX | Proposing a hybrid model | August 17 to November 25 |
| U of Utah (Eccles) | Public | UT | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 3; final exams online |
| U of Virginia (Darden) | Public | VA | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 10 |
| U of Washington (Foster) | Public | WA | Proposing a hybrid model | September 30 to December 11 |
| U of Wisconsin-Madison | Public | WI | Proposing a hybrid model | September 2 to December 10; final exams online |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | Private | TN | Proposing a hybrid model | August 24 to December 4 |
| Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | Private | MO | Proposing a hybrid model | September 14 to December 18; final exams online |
| William & Mary (Mason) | Public | VA | Planning for in-person | August 24 to December 11 |
| Yale School of Management | Private | CT | Proposing a hybrid model | August 31 to December 15 |
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