Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House has damaged perception of the country’s valuable MBA degree market among outsiders, despite his pro-business agenda.
Halfway through the current admissions cycle, 64 per cent of US business schools have reported a drop in applications from overseas students, according to GMAC, the administrator of the widely-used GMAT business school entry exam.
This is the first time in over a decade that a majority of elite institutions offering the qualification, which was originally created in the US, have reported a fall in foreign demand.
Only 31 per cent of the 324 MBA courses surveyed reported gains in international student applications in the six months to March 2017 when compared with the same period…
