2025 MBA Headlines: A School-By-School Collection Of NewsP&Q’s roundup of our coverage from 2025 by: Jeff Schmitt on January 01, 2026 | 48 minute read January 1, 2026 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Larry Gies welcomes Illinois business majors during a signing day ceremony at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (GIES) Gies MSBA Practicum Exposes Students To Data-Driven Client Projects Gies MSBA Students Create Innovative AI Tool To Streamline Industry-Academia Collaboration Gies Master’s In Management: Advance Your Career Opportunities In Nine Months Beyond Case Studies: Gies MSM Students Tackle Real Business Challenges Five Key Questions To Ask Before Investing In A Master’s In Management Degree Insider Tips: How To Earn Your Spot In The Gies Master’s In Business Analytics Program CEO Donates $5 Million Dollars To Gies Business Real Estate Program Inside The Mind Of An Innovator From Corporate To Classroom With Professor Brian Hamm From Inspiration To Innovation: Professor Jeff Loewenstein On Fostering Creative Minds How The Environment Shapes Health: Groundbreaking Research With David Molitor AI, Ethics, And The Future: Aravinda Garimella On Responsible Innovation The Real Drama Behind Entrepreneurship How The Environment Shapes Health: Groundbreaking Research With David Molitor How A Prof’s Joke & A Dean’s Scholarship Led To A $25 Million Naming Gift How Illinois Gies Plans To Make It Easier For Any Student To Become An Entrepreneur ‘My Avatar Teaches In Any Language’: Inside Gies’ Radical AI-Driven Curriculum Revolution Brooke Elliott’s Balancing Act: Protecting Illinois’ Global Mission Amid Political Headwinds Lifetime Achievement Award For Business School Branding: Jan Slater of Gies College of Business Gies Dean Brooke Elliott On Accounting’s Future, Enrollment Challenges & Innovation At Scale Amid Steep International Declines, Illinois Gies Bets Big On Online Growth IMD BUSINESS SCHOOL Tackle Complexity With Confidence: Build Future-Critical Skills With IMD’s Executive MBA IMD Launches First New Degrees In 25 Years: Stackable Executive Masters In AI & Sustainability Exec Ed Roundup: IMD Launches New Master’s Degrees IMD Names Its First Dean Of Degree Programs ‘All For One’ Or All Alone? IMD President David Bach Calls Out U.S. Universities’ Silence Under Trump Why Europe Might Be The Smartest Place To Do Your MBA London Business School Tops 2025 Financial Times Open-Enrollment Exec Ed Ranking, IMD Claims Custom Program Crown Doubling Down On Soft Skills In The Age Of AI: IMD’s Omar Toulan Reinvents The MBA IMD, Iowa & N.C. State Top 2025 Innovator Award Winners IMPERIAL BUSINESS SCHOOL On Earth Day, B-Schools Double Down On Climate Innovation Connected, Flexible, Global: Inside Imperial’s Global Online MBA INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Engineer To MBA: One Student’s Unique Path Via Indian School Of Business’ Brand-New Program The AI Tutor That Business Schools Have Been Waiting For At The Indian School Of Business, One Prof Is Using AI & VR To Build Smarter, More Strategic MBAs Engineer To MBA: One Student’s Unique Path Via Indian School Of Business’ Brand-New Program INDIANA UNIVERSITY (KELLEY) Indiana Kelley Sued For $2 Billion Dollars New Dean Chosen For Indiana’s Kelley School Of Business Indiana U’s Kelley & Luddy Schools Launch a Business Intelligence and Data Science Degree Consulting Before Graduation? IU’s Kelley & Media Schools Are Making It Happen Indiana Kelley Has Published An ‘AI Playbook’ — And Shared It With The World ‘AI Is The New Excel’: Kelley Dean Patrick Hopkins On ‘Future-Proofing’ Faculty & Students 2025 MBA Best In Class Award For Digital Learning: Indiana University (Kelley) P&Q Perspectives: Entrepreneurship & The MBA Fernando Mendoza: The Indiana Kelley MBA Student Chasing The Heisman INSEAD Campus INSEAD Road to the Championship: Winning the INSEAD Master Strategist Day INSEAD Will Expand Its U.S. Presence In 2026, Dean Says Reopening INSEAD’s Middle East Campus to MBAs: Nurturing Leaders of Tomorrow INSEAD Revamps Its MBA Application Essays A Look Inside INSEAD’s Blue Ocean Strategy Elective The Future Of Business Education: Navigating The XR – AI Revolution ‘I Wasn’t The Typical MBA Candidate — And That Was My Advantage’ INSEAD Launches Global Master In Finance Program, Targeting Early-Career Talent From Reading Cases To Living Them: How VR & AI Are Redefining Learning In Business Education UNIVERSITY OF IOWA (TIPPIE) Iowa Tippie Dean Amy Kristof-Brown: Leading In Uncertain Times Tippie College of Business Receives $20-Million Gift University of Iowa’s Tippie College Names New Associate Dean The Most Important AI Book You Haven’t Heard About Yet IMD, Iowa & N.C. State Top 2025 Innovator Award Winners IOWA STATE (IVY) Iowa State Names New Business School Dean IVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL The P&Q Interview: Ivey Dean Julian Birkinshaw Has Global Ambitions For Elite Canadian B-School JAGSOM A Vision For The Future: A Conversation With JAGSOM’s New Director Venkatesh Sunkad JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY AI Belongs In The Business School Clinic — Not Just The Lab JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (CAREY) P&Q Perspectives: Guiding Success: MS In Healthcare Management Johns Hopkins Carey Expands MBA, Launches EMBA In New D.C. Campus P&Q Perspectives: AI & The MBA: Building Future-Ready Leaders Everything To Know About The Full-Time MBA Program At Johns Hopkins Carey UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Kansas School of Business Names Jide Wintoki as New Dean University of Kansas Receives $10-Million to Build Entrepreneurship Hub KINGSTON BUSINESS SCHOOL The P&Q Interview: Kingston’s Human-Centered, Future-Skills Approach To Business KUHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY Inside A Multi-Campus Business School: Insight From An Alum & Administrator X-Factor: Executive Education’s Strategic Strength For B-Schools LA SALLE UNIVERSITY La Salle University Names Cary Caro as Business School Dean UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Liverpool Leads B-Schools Into AI Space Liverpool’s Continued Push Into Sports Business Innovation London Business School MBA Class of 2026 Orientation Photo LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL Breaking The Glass Ceiling: From Amazon’s Headquarters To The Amazon Rainforest Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Hacking Campus Life & Fostering Friendship At London Business School The P&Q Interview: London Business School Dean Sergei Guriev EQUALL 2025: 25 Years of Breaking Barriers & Inspiring Ambition London Business School Partners with Ivey Business School on Case Studies Behind The Magic Of Tattoo 2025: Shaping The Soul Of London Business School The P&Q Interview: LBS’s Alex Edmans On Rewriting The ‘Bible of Finance’ How London Business School’s New 1-Year MBA Is A Testing Ground For AI-First Business Education Spotlight On London Business School’s One-Year MBA Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Exploring The World, One Experience At A Time What You Seek Is Seeking You: My Cape Town Global Experience Past The Prospectus: Learning To Prioritize As A First Year MBA Student From Myanmar To McKinsey Via London Business School: A Doctor’s Journey London Business School Dean Named to Group of Thirty (G30) London Business School Celebrates 60th Anniversary Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Taking More Than Just An MBA Degree Past The Prospectus: The Value That Comes From A Breadth Of Experiences Cognitive Compass: How To Get The Most From Business School EUROUT 2025: Redefining The Room To Make Business More Inclusive Student Voices: How London Business School Helped Me See Japan — And Myself — In A New Light LSU (OURSO) LSU’s Ourso College of Business Names Russell Crook as New Dean MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN International Environment, Hands-On Learning Define Manchester Met MBA Why The Manchester Met MBA Is The MBA For The World MANNHEIM BUSINESS SCHOOL Exit Interview: Jens Wüstemann On Building Germany’s Most Ambitious Business School ‘Say Ja To Germany’: Three Top B-Schools Woo World’s Students & Researchers UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (SMITH) The Best Protection For Students Isn’t Shielding — It’s Critical Thinking UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (ISENBERG) Return On Investment: A Business Master’s Degree Is A Strategic Move To Advance Or Switch A Career Preparing Business Students For A Future With AI MIAMI UNIVERSITY (FARMER) This Dorm Room Entrepreneur Earned $200K From His College While Building 2 Multimillion-Dollar Startups What Happens When The Real Learning Occurs Outside The Classroom? How B-Schools Can Flip Their Thinking On ChatGPT UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI (HERBERT) Soaring Beyond Limits: A Miami Herbert Story Of Ambition, Opportunity, And Impact Miami Herbert Students Meet Opportunity Where It Lives Miami Herbert Faculty Fuel Innovation In The Classroom And Beyond Miami Herbert & IESE Partner On Exec Ed Ai Leadership Program Miami’s Herbert Business School Turns 100 Next Page: Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Northwestern Kellogg, and more. Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 © Copyright 2026 Poets & Quants. All rights reserved. This article may not be republished, rewritten or otherwise distributed without written permission. To reprint or license this article or any content from Poets & Quants, please submit your request HERE.