The Crisis Facing American Universities Is Bigger Than the MBA

The Crisis Facing American Universities Is Bigger Than the MBA

In December 2023, Siddharth, who asked to be identified only by his first name, had applied to 10 American universities — including New York University, Columbia, Dartmouth, Stanford and UCLA — for graduate programs related to finance and business analytics. The Indian student eventually enrolled at Brandeis University, graduated last December and now works at a management consulting firm in Boston as part of Optional Practical Training (OPT), a…