Business-school students in reputed programs make heavy investments to earn their degrees. Many or all of them work out the returns on these investments well beforehand. A few students may be able to estimate what their earnings might be 5, 10, 15, or even 20 years after graduation. In-depth surveys by management-education experts often come … Read more
The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Calcutta, are the only Indian b-schools in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2018, which includes 100 institutions. Strange for a country with 5,500 MBA colleges? Not at all, it turns out. For quite a few reasons.
When MBA applicants approach us and share their personal details, we generally give them the benefit of doubt and don’t question the authenticity of the data. It’s only occasionally that we ask for additional evidence of their claims. As an example, someone claiming to have scored a 790 on the GMAT would fit well in … Read more
We shared our review on the HBX CORe program and then followed it up with an interview with the Executive Director of HBX (read it here: Harvard online certificate courses are not just for MBA degree aspirants). We thought it would be fitting to complete the series by finding out what past participants of HBX … Read more
Shriman and Shrimati Gupta-ji (Sandeep and Divya) were at a stage in their life and career that would be best described by the popular desi label – ‘settled’. They both had Indian MBA degrees, good jobs and 500+ channels on cable TV (the last one is our assumption). When you are over 30, that’s a … Read more
You would think that universities and colleges would grab the best applicants for their academic programs every time. However, more than a decade ago, during one US admissions year, the undergraduate admissions office at Franklin and Marshall, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, put 140 of its best applicants on its waitlist.
You won’t hear many Indian students who’ve gone to study abroad in USA and other countries talk about it. At least, not openly on a public forum. That doesn’t imply that every international student has a fairy tale experience. It just means that there aren’t enough students brave enough to confess what happened to them … Read more
Jobs for international master’s degree holders, particularly in the US, is a lottery. International students who want to stay on and work in the US for more than a year after graduation are at the mercy of a H1B lottery visa system.
For those who have resolved to do an MBA from a good university, the big question is obviously how to fund your course. The tuition fee for a full-time course can run into millions of rupees, and part-time or online courses, though slightly less expensive, will also make you considerably poorer. An education loan with … Read more
It may be passé to start a piece on Yale School of Management (Yale SOM, SOM) with a recounting of PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi’s “landmark” gift to her alma mater in early 2016.
Tarang Gupta packed enough punch into his GMAT preparation to shatter the glass ceiling that stops most from going beyond 750. The final year BBS student from Delhi University shares the GMAT study plan that got him there. If you are aiming to be a GMAT topper, this should inspire you. If you’re just … Read more
The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business is among the dream destinations for many MBA aspirant. Established in 1924, Ross hosts about 200 companies hunting for top management talent every year. In 2015, 97 percent of its MBA students had at least one job offer within three months of graduation. That’s a pretty good … Read more