Join our online Q&A: the secrets of successful MBA applications

Coronavirus has produced prevalent economic uncertainty and pressured a switch from lecture rooms to on the net finding out about the previous yr — nonetheless demand for many MBA programmes all over the environment has amplified.

That brings new things to consider for possible candidates: irrespective of whether to apply to business educational institutions now, which ones to method, and how. So the FT has introduced together a panel of experts joined to major institutions to assist viewers determine — in a webinar on Thursday March 11, at 5pm GMT.

Increasing tuition expenses and the possibility expenditures of providing up do the job for study have lifted issues about the price of business instruction, and how to balance shorter-expression sacrifices with the gains of finding out new abilities, building networks, and progressing or switching a career.

The FT alone ranks a hundred leading international business educational institutions which offer a extensive wide range of MBAs in distinctive nations around the world, from time to time combining durations on distinctive campuses.

Applicants have to have to consider elements which includes area, duration, specialisms taught and expenses billed. They may also be intrigued in the variety of the university student overall body and college, options for worldwide encounter, and variable commitments to courses focused on social responsibility.

Lots of will have to have to take the GMAT business school entry exam, and are in search of assistance to have an understanding of additional about the very best methods to prepare for the examinations, application letters and interviews.

Our panel features:

  • Eddie Asbie, interim executive director of admissions and fiscal assist at SC Johnson Graduate Faculty of Administration at Cornell College

  • Virginie Fougea, international director of admissions and fiscal assist at Insead

  • David Simpson, recruitment and admissions director, MBA and Masters in Finance, London Business enterprise Faculty and

  • Donna Swinford, associate dean for university student recruitment and admissions, MBAs, at the College of Chicago Booth Faculty of Business enterprise.

They will be joined by Pleasure Jones, chief item officer and basic supervisor, assessments, at the Graduate Administration Admission Council (GMAC) and Tarini Sundar, MBA (2020, Northwestern College Kellogg Faculty of Administration), a item marketing supervisor at Salesforce.

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