<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2018/spike-in-mba-applications.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>10/09/2018</pubDate><title>University of New Haven Bucks National Trend, Sees Significant Spike in MBA Applications</title><description>The University’s MBA program realized a 28 percent year-over-year increase in the number of applications, which goes against a national trend in which the number of MBA applications has declined each of the last four years.</description><hide-description/><author>Dave Cranshaw, Office of Marketing &amp; Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>October 9, 2018</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/business/news/2018/mba-app-increase.jpg" alt="A photo of MBA program participants"/></image><image-caption>In the last year, the University of New Haven has seen a dramatic increase in the number of applications to its MBA program.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2018</tag></tags></item>