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MBA Students Want More Digital Offerings Even After the Pandemic

Forced by the pandemic to study via Zoom, business school students want to keep some parts of the virtual classroom.

Adhiraj Didwania, a student at IE Business School in Madrid, has been taking classes from his home in Kolkata.

Photographer: Arko Datto/Bloomberg
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While MBA students were generally disappointed with the shift to online learning, there are some features of virtual classes they liked—and want to see continued even after in-person instruction resumes, a Bloomberg Businessweek survey of MBA students shows.

The revelations come from a survey of 3,532 students at 95 business schools around the world, conducted from May to early August. In part of the survey, we asked open-ended questions, where students could write extended answers.