flowing to the Mid-Atlantic / Mountain West / South. Rankings Yale is ranked by Poets and Quants in the top ten over the past eight years and has remained in tenth place since 2015. From 2011 to 2017, applications rose 46%—more than any other peer school, and 2017 alone saw a 12.3% increase in applications. In 2017, total academic quality of its incoming class was second only to Stanford, and total median pay of its alumni exceeded Columbia's, MITs, and U Chicago, despite more students than other peer schools pursuing non-profit work. Yale ranked number one in U.S. News & World Reports 2017 "Best Non-Profit MBA Rankings." Yale's faculty were rated #1 of all MBA faculty in the Economist survey in 2018. The 2018 Princeton Review put SOM at #2 for "Best Green MBA," #6 for "Toughest MBA to get into," and #7 for "Best MBA for Consulting" and "Best MBA for Management." Degrees The Yale School of Management (SOM) offers a number of postgraduate degrees, including the two-year Master's of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executives, Master of Advanced Management (MAM), Masters of Management Studies in Systemic Risk, and several doctorate degrees. MBA The MBA a traditional full-time, two-year program that allows students to take a wide array of core courses and electives at the university. MBA for Executives The MBA for Executives at SOM during the 2017–18 academic year includes 71 students, 35% of whom are women. Graduates of the MBA for Executives program go through the full MBA-integrated core curriculum. They also take advanced management courses as well as colloquia and advanced courses in one of three areas of focus: healthcare, asset management, or sustainability. Master of Advanced Management The Master of Advanced Management (MAM) is a one-year degree program for exceptional MBA graduates from top international business schools who aspire to become global leaders for business and society. The MAM program gathers the most promising management students from around the world to exchange ideas and points of view that complement the knowledge and skills they learned in their home countries as MBA students. Admission to the Master of Advanced Management program is available to MBA students from top international business schools, including those in the Global Network for Advanced Management, who either (1) have recently graduated with an MBA degree or (2) who are enrolled in an MBA program and expect to receive their MBA degree