Applicants seeking an MBA with high placement rates throughout Asia may find HKUST the perfect fit for their needs. HKUST offers two options for its MBA: a 16-month option that offers hopeful career switchers the opportunity to hold an internship in their target industry and even an experience in an exchange program abroad, and a…
Cambridge Judge MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
The Cambridge Judge MBA program is a one-year program with a small class of around 200 students from 40+ countries. The Judge MBA is a very experiential program, with three required team projects engaging students with external companies or organizations. Judge is seeking applicants with proven academic abilities, ambition, the ability to thrive under pressure, international…
INSEAD MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Communication is key for INSEAD – in part because it is a key factor that their recruiters look for. Hence the INSEAD application elicits your communication effectiveness. First, INSEAD asks you to write reflective essays – and to do so succinctly. Balancing this emphasis on written communication is a video component – the adcom wants to…
Oxford Saïd MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Oxford Said expects its graduates to address the world’s great challenges, such as energy and food and water security. Whether such challenges are one’s actual focus, the work of a business professional will inevitably overlap with such issues. This reality leads the adcom to seek individuals who understand integrity, who value the program’s effort to…
Georgetown McDonough MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
We want to hear your story. When responding to our required essays, be authentic and take time to reflect on your goals and past experiences. Craft a response that explains how these experiences led you to pursue an MBA. Our goal at Georgetown McDonough is to craft a diverse class with people who have had…
Learn How to Answer MBA Essay Questions
By the time you sit down to work on your b-school applications, you’ve already laid much of the groundwork for your candidacy, and a lot of the pieces of your profile are already set. (There’s no going back in time to change your undergrad record!) But there’s one piece of the application that you have…
UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Are you a team leader? Are you committed to sustainable enterprise? Are you seeking resources and intellectual capital needed to shape both business and government? Are you a motivated, goal-oriented, innovative individual? UNC Kenan-Flagler adcoms are interested in seeing your multidimensional personality and capabilities. Your challenge: Prove that your goals mesh with the school’s…
Indian School of Business MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
For MBA aspirants who want to build or advance their careers in India, the Indian School of Business PGP program offers excellent preparation. International job offers saw a slight uptick in the class of 2018, a total of 30 offers were made for roles outside of India compared with 2017’s 12. While 2018’s industry distribution…
Cornell Johnson College of Business MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
If you are looking for a small MBA class in an idyllic location with warm and genuine classmates, then Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management may be your program. Johnson places the largest portion of its class in the financial industry after graduation (32% of the class); in addition, 25% enter the consulting industry,…
UVA Darden MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
If you like the idea of constantly being thrown into the decision maker’s role, using the case method to navigate real-life business situations, then you may want to consider applying to University of Virginia’s Darden MBA program. Darden is the second-largest case publisher in North America, and because of Darden’s commitment to the case study…
MIT Sloan MBA Application Tips & Deadlines
What’s new at MIT Sloan? While innovation is “in the air” at MIT Sloan, they are enjoying a period of relative stability amidst the excitement of constant creativity. They added a Round 3 two years ago to their application process, and in contrast to their neighbor on the Charles River – Harvard – have not…
UCLA Anderson MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Although UCLA Anderson’s application has changed slightly this year, Anderson’s big news has nothing to do with its application this year and everything to do with change at the top: The school is one of several top MBA programs – including its neighbor to the north, UC Berkeley Haas – that is looking for a…
London Business School MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
London Business School boasts one of the most diverse student bodies, with 90% of its 425 students hailing from a total of 69 countries outside of England. If you are looking for a globally focused MBA program in a city bursting with culture, finance, and industry, then LBS is certainly a program to consider. My…
IMD MBA Essay Tips and Deadlines
IMD, the International Institute for Management Development, in Lausanne, Switzerland, offers a 1-year MBA program focused on global general management and leadership, with a growing emphasis on digital innovation and entrepreneurship. While there are only 90 students in each class, the diversity among that class is wide: students hail from 44 countries: 41% from throughout…
MBA Essay Tips
Zoom in to your school’s specific essay questions with the MBA application tips below. Just click on the appropriate link to see tips for your particular b-school. Applying to business school doesn’t need to be daunting! Work with an expert, apply with confidence, and get accepted. Chicago Booth 2019-20 MBA Essay Tips & Deadline Columbia Business…
