Management Perspective: Predicting Academic Performance of Foreign and Non-Foreign Students in a Graduate Business School

Abstract

The article addresses the value of the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATSB) in predicting the scholastic success of prospective students in a graduate business school. In conducting the study, the researchers made note of the unusual results found in studying foreign students and in the selection procedures of the school, which did not accept everyone who took the test. The article relates the study process, involving graduate students in business administration at the University of Oregon in the years 1959–1963, the findings, and the interpretation of those findings. The ATSB was found to be a satisfactory predictor of student success.