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

Coronavirus has created prevalent financial uncertainty and forced a swap from school rooms to online discovering about the previous yr — yet desire for a lot of MBA programmes all-around the world has greater.

That delivers new considerations for likely candidates: whether to apply to small business educational facilities now, which kinds to strategy, and how. So the FT has introduced jointly a panel of professionals joined to foremost establishments to enable visitors come to a decision — in a webinar on Thursday March 11, at 5pm GMT.

Climbing tuition expenses and the possibility charges of supplying up get the job done for review have raised thoughts about the price of small business education, and how to stability shorter-phrase sacrifices with the positive aspects of discovering new capabilities, setting up networks, and progressing or changing a job.

The FT on your own ranks one hundred major international small business educational facilities which offer a huge range of MBAs in unique countries, from time to time combining periods on unique campuses.

Applicants need to have to consider elements which include place, length, specialisms taught and expenses billed. They may possibly also be fascinated in the range of the scholar overall body and faculty, prospects for intercontinental encounter, and variable commitments to programs centered on social responsibility.

Many will need to have to choose the GMAT small business faculty entry take a look at, and are looking for information to understand extra about the greatest ways to prepare for the tests, software letters and interviews.

Our panel incorporates:

• Eddie Asbie, interim govt director of admissions and fiscal help at SC Johnson Graduate College of Management at Cornell College

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

• David Simpson, recruitment and admissions director, MBA and Masters in Finance, London Organization College and

• Donna Swinford, affiliate dean for scholar recruitment and admissions, MBAs, at the College of Chicago Booth College of Organization.

They will be joined by Pleasure Jones, main products officer and normal manager, assessments, at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) and Tarini Sundar, MBA (2020, Northwestern College Kellogg College of Management), a products advertising and marketing manager at Salesforce.