"Companies Will Become Universities" - Why MBA Programs Are On LIFE SUPPORT
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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MBA programs are on a fire sale as top schools slash tuition and still leave more grads job-hunting, while Google, Amazon, and Apple cool on the MBA craze. We break down why companies will become the new universities, how internal “MBAs” with real operators beat debt, and what this means for your career.
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:03.0 | Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion |
| 0:07.7 | dollar swings. |
| 0:08.8 | There's a money side to every story. |
| 0:11.4 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:13.6 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:18.2 | A story comes out by Wall Street Journal, Rob. |
| 0:22.0 | I don't know if you have it in here or not. |
| 0:23.3 | I don't think you do. |
| 0:24.2 | No, I didn't ask you to put it in there. |
| 0:25.8 | So story comes out by Wall Street Journal saying MBAs are on a fire sale. |
| 0:32.5 | Okay, MBAs, Masters and Business Administration are on a fire sale. |
| 0:38.8 | Okay? Fire sale. |
| 0:40.0 | Now, when you read this article, Rob, I don't know if you have all the way down to go through the article. |
| 0:45.1 | If it's not going to allow you, it does allow you. |
| 0:46.7 | Okay, few things you need to know about the story. |
| 0:48.7 | More business schools are giving steep discounts on tuition than can save students up to $50,000 or tens of thousands of dollars. So people are like, why are MBA programs getting cheaper and cheaper? Keep going lower and see what's happening here. Okay, keep going lower to the stats. Purdue University, right there, Rob. Please go a little bit up, one paragraph up. Purdue Mitchell-Daniels School of Business is knocking 40% off its tuition for next fall, okay, which makes the 48 |
| 1:12.4 | credit hour program, $36,000 for out-of-state students down from $60,000, okay? |
| 1:18.8 | Then UC Irvine, tuition is down 38% from $48,000 to $30,000. |
| 1:24.0 | If you go a little bit lower, there's more stories. |
| 1:26.5 | John Hopkins, Carrie Business |
| 1:27.7 | School, is given a 50% scholarship on graduates from a Maryland college this Springs and enter |
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