Getting admitted to Harvard Business School is a cinch. At least that's what several hundred people must have thought last year after they applied to the graduate program of the UCLA Department of Art - and didn't get in.
An arts degree is now perhaps the hottest credential in the world of business.
The reasons are twofold - supply and demand. The supply of people with basic MBA skills is expanding and therefore driving down their value. Meanwhile, the demand for artistic aptitude is surging. In many ways, MBA graduates are becoming this century's blue-collar workers - people who entered a workforce that was full of promise only to see their jobs move overseas.
Corporate recruiters have begun visiting top arts grad schools. This approach has often come at the expense of traditional business graduates.
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