2009 has been a pretty wild year for business schools and their students. There have been many highs and lows for MBAs over the past 12 months, but I’m hopeful that things will starting looking up in 2010. BusinessWeek.com recently published its list of the top B-school related stories of 2009 and I thought that some of you might be interested in the list.

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Title: “Top Business School Stories of 2009″

Author: Alison Damast and Geoff Gloeckler

Date: Dec 23, 2009 Source: BusinessWeek.com, http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/dec2009/bs20091223_153201.htm

Excerpt from intro text:

“To call 2009 an interesting year for management education is perhaps an understatement bordering on the extreme. With the global financial crisis taking its toll on everything from the MBA job market and endowments to financial aid and the reputation of the MBA degree itself, 2009 promises to go down in history as a year to forget.

For students and graduates of MBA programs, 2009 was the year that jobs and internship offers became harder to find, even at the top schools; a year when the scarcity of student loans and visas for international students threatened to derail even the best-laid B-school plans; and a year when programs began to rethink the way they teach such subjects as ethics and corporate responsibility. Business school endowments were hit hard and the high cost of tuition was at the fore of every prospective student’s thinking.

Of the 10 most popular business school stories on Businessweek.com in 2009, seven directly related to the financial crisis. The others looked at a new competitor on the B-school admissions test front, a GMAT cheating alert in China, and three top MBA programs currently without deans. Take some time to go back over the biggest stories of the year and reminisce. For better or worse, 2009 will be a year that the B-school world won’t soon forget.”