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In the Bloomberg Businessweek rankings, the Smeal College of Business is ranked among the top 25 MBA programs. If you consider the years-to-payback aspect, the ranking shoots up within the top 10. Every year, all applicants are automatically considered for funding, without the necessity of any additional application. For instance, every single student of the … Read more
You might’ve heard it from someone, somewhere before. “Schools love minority MBA candidates!” or “If you are a minority MBA applicant, your chances of getting selected are very high!” How true is it? Or just another myth that’s got propagated over the years?
An early career MBA is the generally accepted trend in India. Complete your graduation, crack the Indian MBA entrance exams and target the good MBA colleges in India. For GMAT MBA schools, work experience is a pretty important piece of the jigsaw puzzle. The average work experience in USA is around 5 years at the … Read more
Among the Ivy League MBA programs, the Tuck MBA from Dartmouth University figures prominently on the list of many MBA applicants from India. But there are several hurdles you’d need to cross first to get into the high ranking course. The Tuck MBA application process is highly selective. And it has to be, because the … Read more
Apart from the regular pre-requisites (GMAT score, MBA essays, recommendations, TOEFL score) listed in the MBA applications guideline pages of many top business schools, if you’ve paid attention to the academic requirements section, you’ll find something on the following lines – a degree from a recognised university, transcripts that mention the grades / performance (GPA, … Read more
York University’s Schulich School of Business offers an international MBA course in Ontario (Canada) and Hyderabad (India). If you check out the class profile, you’ll find the average work experience to be 5 years (average age of 29). The average GMAT score is 664, half the students are international (i.e. from outside Canada) and 36% … Read more
Though IT software engineers still dominate the Indian MBA applicant pool, chartered accountants (CA) seem to have developed a fancy for the international MBA degree (Read Benefits of MBA abroad after CA). We’ve been getting an increasing number of admission assistance requests and general queries from chartered accountants. With their quantitative background and client focussed … Read more
If you take out Accenture and Vanderbilt University from his resume, and look beneath the layers, Bhaskar Purohit (name changed) comes across as a creative person. His passion for music goes beyond being a passive listener. He sings, and writes poems & songs. He won a song writing competition at Accenture. But given the timing … Read more
MBA rejection rates at the best MBA colleges in the world are very high – often in the 75%-80% range. It’s a known fact that MBA rejection rates for Indians are higher.
Columbia Business School offers the opportunity to get an Ivy League MBA degree in Manhattan, New York. If you thought the location makes it suited only for finance jobs, you’d be surprised at the variety of career options it opens up. Read Best Business Schools in New York In the current class, 37% of the … Read more
The Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto) offers one of the best MBA programs in Canada. It has enjoyed the numero uno ranking for 9 out of 10 years. It accepts 15 years of education i.e. three-year undergraduate degrees from India. If you have been concerned about the tough visa situation in other countries, … Read more
While the battle of the giants in the MBA world – Harvard Business School (HBS) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) – has raged on for a long time, very few Indians have been in the envious position to have got admits from both. That number shrinks further if you consider Indians who’ve got … Read more