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What is the average age for MBA in India, USA, UK, Singapore (add your favourite MBA destination here)? Apart from the statistical relevance of the question, there’s also an introspective aspect. The first one is easier to answer as most MBA portals and business school websites list this in the MBA Class profile section along … Read more
The University of Oxford has been at the forefront of academics for over eight hundred years. Management education wasn’t on the menu till the Said Business School was established in 1996. Now this 1 year MBA in UK is considered among the best in the world. It has an average GMAT score of 690. At … Read more
IESE Business School in Barcelona (Spain) offers a 15-19 month program that has been ranked high consistently by Financial Times, Forbes, BusinessWeek and the Economist. After the first year, students get the opportunity of a corporate internship, summer entrepreneur experience, or a social internship. The IESE Career Services team plays a key role in helping … Read more
MBA re-applicants have a tough ride compared to those who are applying for the first time. After going through the tedious MBA admissions process once and facing rejection, it requires a stronger determination and an unwavering focus on the ultimate goal to shake off the memory of what happened earlier and get back into the … Read more
Cambridge University has an 800-year-old legacy that includes a huge list of Nobel prize winners, prime ministers, actors, writers and other famous alumni who have excelled in their fields. Within that awe-inspiring context, the Cambridge MBA is relatively new. But it has carved a niche for itself among the MBA rankings that are dominated by … Read more
MBA applicants who are older than 30 years (or closer to 40) often ask these questions: – ‘Is it too late for a full-time MBA program?’ – ‘How do bschools look at MBA applicants over 30?’ – ‘After I cross 30 years, should I even try for full-time MBA programs?’ – ‘Will my age force … Read more
Dealing with rejection isn’t easy. After painstakingly selecting bschools that you felt would be the best for your career goals, after going through the nerve-wracking ordeal of responding to MBA essay topics that swing between introspection and philosophy, and after spending all that hard-earned money on the GMAT exam, bschool application fee, and many months … Read more
Many US business schools and top universities expect applicants to have completed 16 as opposed to 15 years of education. In India, apart from fields such as engineering, medicine and architecture, graduation in many popular disciplines require 15 years of education. This post is for those MBA aspirants who have completed their graduation in India … Read more
The big MBA versus Masters in Management fight always gets its fair share of viewers. It is one of the common topics you’d see on MBA discussion forums where fresh graduates preparing for CAT (and GMAT simultaneously) hang out. After reading 20-30 responses you end up more confused than ever. So here’s a simple way … Read more
Just when you thought Hari couldn’t surpass what he did in his first post on IMD Switzerland, he’s come back with this second helping. For those who just joined us, Hari Raghavachari is an alumnus of IMD who’s writing a 3-part series on his experiences before ,during and after his MBA. If you haven’t read … Read more
Trust an IMD Switzerland MBA grad to execute a task with surgical precision. It’s no wonder then that Hari Raghavachari’s depiction of life at IMD was so exhaustive that we had to break it up into 3 parts. Who knows, by the time we complete the trilogy, we might have surpassed the official IMD website … Read more
Rajnikanth isn’t the only one getting attention in Chennai. Great Lakes has been stacking up on some good mojo too, as it quietly goes about doing its job. While everyone is getting enamoured by its more famous competitor (no points for guessing which one), many graduates of the 1 year PGPM program at Great Lakes … Read more