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
Chances are you’ve taken the CAT exam much before you started thinking about its international brother-from-another-mother – GMAT (GMAT vs CAT). Chances are you’ve taken the CAT exam twice. Rarely will you come across someone as persistent as Mukund (name changed) who made 4 attempts at the CAT exam, and failed despite cracking the 99 … Read more
We published an article earlier focusing on the dilemma of an MBA after marriage. In it we talked about what might happen if a husband OR a wife decide to take a sabbatical. Towards the end we promised an even more interesting story of an Indian couple who put in (independent) MBA applications together. When … Read more
While applying to MBA colleges, Santosh Rai’s objective was pretty clear. He wanted to minimize not only his admissions costs, but also the cost of attending the MBA program. His strategy paid off. The Carlson MBA offered by the Carlson School of Management offered him a 100% scholarship (full tuition waiver). The Simon MBA program … Read more
The topic of average GMAT score for ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business) gets discussed a lot. We published an article about an MBA applicant who got into ISB with a low GMAT score of 610. This time we consider another aspect of GMAT scores i.e. the limited utility of a high GMAT score. Ritesh … Read more
‘I come from a middle class family. Will I be able to afford an MBA from USA, UK, Canada?‘ It’s a common problem for MBA applicants, and not just among those who come from low income backgrounds. Read this article to know why it is such a big issue – How expensive is an MBA … Read more
The NUS Singapore 1 year MBA program gets a lot of applications from Indian IT Male Engineers, just like all the other top bschools. Being closer to India and being more affordable than the US programs means that it gets more than its fair share of such profiles. Rohit Jaggi was one of the hopeful … Read more
Mays Business School is the Best value for money school in the US (and 4th in the world) according to Financial Times 2012 MBA rankings. FT also gives it a thumbs up for other aspects such as ‘Salary Percentage Increase’ (2nd in US), ‘Employment at Three Months’ (7th in US) and ‘Aims Achieved’ (6th in … Read more
When MBA education costs are spiralling out of control, a full-tuition scholarship can mean a lot to Indian candidates with pockets that aren’t as deep as their other MBA classmates. Smeal MBA granted a full-ride (100% tuition waiver) and more, in terms of a steady income (stipend) to Pushkal Kumar. He stands tall and confident … Read more
MBA scholarships are tough to come by at the good business schools. Convert $20,000 into Indian Rupees (what would you do with the extra 10 lakhs that you save?) and the MBA success story sounds so much better. For Ankit Chopra, all this came after he had put in more than the usual share of … Read more
ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business) didn’t have good news for Riaz Mohammed and he wrote about it earlier on our blog with some advice for others who were in a similar situation. We had hinted that his story was going to change for the better. Riaz is back with some good news to share. … Read more
There’s one trait that makes Nitin Vig special – Tenacity. Having known him for a while, I know more about him than this following post reveals. And that I think the quality to hang in there when the chips are down and keep pushing is gonna take him places. He had to struggle with an … Read more