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Unlike the regular higher education destinations like USA, UK, Canada where there’s a lot written by masters students and alumni covering their university experiences, very little is known about living and studying in China as an international student. Georgia Tech MS student from India, Aishwarya Balwani, shares her complete journey from planning for an MS … Read more
The genius Tagore may have hated formal schooling and even chastised the concept of examinations, but for the rest, education has had a pretty rigid framework. You get into school, you go to classes, you appear for examinations and you find religion when it is time for you to see your results. And the more … Read more
Dishonesty in the MBA application process isn’t a new phenomenon. Whether it’s exaggeration, lies or plagiarism, applicants across the world have been doing it for years, in the hope that it’ll give them an edge in the race. While the top business schools like UCLA Anderson have been rejecting applicants for unethical MBA essay writing … Read more
When you gaze into the crystal ball and see an Ivy League MS graduate from India planning for an MBA, you’d naturally assume that he’s set his eyes on the Ivy League universities. But Rahul Krishnan, who completed his masters degree in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), did exactly the opposite – forgoing … Read more
What are the common problems faced by international students who arrive on university campuses in USA? MBA Crystal Ball invited Abbey Rice, associate director of MBA global programs at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business to share her views on the topic. While some of the points are related to the Rice MBA program … Read more
Riah Sathe had set her eyes on a product management career and felt that a top international graduate management program would help her get there faster. The average age for the programs on her target list ranged from 28 to 31 years. And she was 22. Being well aware of why the top graduate management … Read more
The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) is among the top 3 universities in the world – Harvard and Stanford being the other two – to have produced the highest number of Fortune 500 CEOs in the world. So, what’s it like to study in a masters program at an Ivy League university as an Indian student? … Read more
MBAs come in all shapes and sizes – Full Time (FT), Executive, Dual, Distance, Short Term and Part Time (PT). [Read – Types of MBA Programs]. But taking the more common full-time MBA courses, for comparison, the way part-time differs from it is mainly in the execution. Part time courses are usually offered as evening, … Read more
Second MBA applicant, Abhinav Gupta, got admits from 3 good schools with varying amounts of MBA scholarships. He took the unusual decision to leave close to $100,000 (~ 65 Lakhs in Indian Rupees) in free money on the table and choose a program where he saw a better fit with his profile and career aspirations. … Read more
Rishi Bajaj (name changed) would be soon flying from Singapore to Chicago to join the Kellogg One Year MBA program on a cool $25,000 tuition scholarship. This is the culmination of a long, intense and often frustrating ride he’s been on since 2013. It finally got to a stage where he had offers from not … Read more
Many aspiring consultants want to know if it’s possible to get a top tier strategy consulting firm like McKinsey / Bain / Boston Consulting Group (MBB, in short) with no MBA and no prior experience in the field. Jenny Lee (name changed) has managed to do just that. In this article, she explains how she … Read more
Shyam Nambiar didn’t exactly fit the definition of the typical MBA applicant. However, what his profile lacked in terms of conventional attributes, he more than made up for it with his razor sharp career planning and dollops of confidence. Shyam not only got into several top MBA programs in USA, Canada and India after 40, … Read more