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Vital tips for successfully applying for the business school you want
By Matt Symonds

Research, research, research

• At international business school fairs such as the QS World MBA Tour.
• Online (schools’ own websites) and, if possible, in person, by visiting campuses.
• The QS Scorecard at www.topmba.com allows you to draw up a personalised ranking of schools based on your individual needs, goals and preferences.

Take the tests

• Take the GMAT and TOEFL tests (the standard application test for many major schools and the key assessment of your command of English – essential for most international programmes) and have the scores sent to target schools.
• Prepare between one and six months ahead of taking the tests, depending on your initial level.

Application essays

• Start work in advance.
• Brainstorm achievements, strengths and weaknesses.
• Define your goals and objectives in choosing to do an MBA.
• Draft essays and have friends and colleagues, whose opinions you value, re-read for an honest evaluation.
• Consider working with an MBA consultant to sharpen the focus of your work.

Letters of recommendation

• Get organised in advance by selecting and approaching the right individuals.
• Remind them of your achievements, provide them with a draft of your application dossier as a guide for continuity and establish clear and reasonable deadlines for completion (six to eight weeks).

Exam transcripts

• Request your undergraduate transcripts and allow at least two months.
• Check with target business schools whether they require translations.

Post application

• Allow time for package to arrive by the schools’ deadlines and always request return receipt.
• Keep photocopies for your records.
• Apply early, and be organised. The earlier you complete your application the better your chances of admission.

The majority of schools use rounds of application, determining three deadlines, typically November, January and March for a September class start.

The bottom line has to be to apply to a school when you have a great dossier ready. If meeting the November deadline means a poorly prepared GMAT test, with hurried essays that lack definition and impact, you’d be better waiting for the next round.

Also, bear in mind that many schools receive huge numbers of applications in the last 24 hours before the final deadline – at a time when there are only a handful of places left.

• Matt Symonds is the author of the admissions book, ‘Getting the Edge’. Visit www.topmba.com
(Courtesy: telegraph.co.uk )

Widget Finn on why the GMAT exam has won global respect
IF YOU are applying to a leading business school to do an MBA, you may have to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) first. It is a universally recognised standard that many business schools include as part of their entry requirements.

GMAT was introduced in 1954 as the only standardised test designed specifically for use by graduate business and management programmes. In its first year 4,000 tests were taken but in recent years the number has topped 200,000.

The test, which costs $250 (£140) to take, is delivered in English from 400 centres in 100 countries. It consists of four separately timed sections, including two analytical writing tasks and two quantitative and verbal sections of multiple-choice questions.

Jeanette Purcell, chief executive of the Association of MBAs, regards GMAT as a useful test when accrediting business schools.

“It’s a good guide to a student’s competence although the business school would probably want to make sure that potential students also had a good solid breadth of work experience and a track record in management,” she says. “One of its benefits is that it is universal so students can take their results to a number of schools.”

GMAC (the Graduate Management Admission Council which administers GMAT) says that it is an exceptionally good predictor of how well a student will perform academically in the business school curriculum. Others are more cautious.

Purcell says: “It is a good indication of whether a student can cope on the course but not necessarily a predictor of success. GMAT doesn’t tell us anything about interpersonal skills or emotional intelligence which are so important.”

John McGee, associate dean at Warwick Business School, agrees that the exam cannot give a reliable picture of whether the candidate will do well. “Sometimes we accept people with slightly dubious GMAT results, who go on to succeed and vice versa,” he says. “Our students come from all over the world and without GMAT the information supplied may not indicate whether they are intellectually and psychologically appropriate.”

The GMAT is only required for the full-time MBA programme at Warwick. “For the part-time programme there is a greater element of corporate and self-selection of students and we can build a good profile of candidates with close referencing from people who know them,” he adds.

Some schools use a combination of GMAT and their own admissions tests.. Cranfield School of Management, for example, requires a good GMAT score (the average is 660) or a good score in its own test, although it recommends that candidates for the full-time MBA take GMAT.

There have been reports of cheating (see box) but today candidates must provide digital signatures, fingerprints and photographs when they check in at a GMAT centre.

Is it possible to swot for the test? Yes, McGee says. “We find that if you repeat the test you can improve by 10-15 per cent, so there is a learning element. The test subdivides into quantitative and verbal which is helpful for students whose first language isn’t English. You can see that someone with high qualitative points but low language is probably pretty smart and this can be established by doing an interview locally.”

There are also guides available on how to tackle the test. Alex Neame, a student at Warwick, advises: “Be prepared. You wouldn’t go for a job interview without doing research, so it would be pretty foolish to take the test without practising it first.”

Tight security to beat cheats

RESPONSIBILITY for running the GMAT exam was handed to Pearson VUE in January to ensure greater security, according to David Wilson, president and chief executive of GMAC.

More than 68,000 people took the exam in the first five months of last year but reports of widespread cheating raised questions over the big rise in the top score of 708 out of 800.

In 1997 Newsweek reported that candidates on the East Coast of America phoned through answers to a cheating ring which inscribed them on pencils sold to candidates on the West Coast sitting the exam three hours later.

Impersonators posing as candidates have been convicted for completing the GMAT fraudulently.? ? (Courtesy: www.timesonline.co.uk )

Des Dearlove says career mobility is the key benefit of an MBA
MBA graduates are being offered higher bonuses — usually a sign of good times to come — and business school enrolments are rising, so school deans can sleep easier.

According to this year’s career survey from the Association of MBAs, which is published today, base starting salaries, which average £65,600 are down slightly (from £66,500 a year earlier).

On the other hand variable cash earnings, such as stock options and performance-linked bonuses, are slightly up — to £19,000, making the total average package about £85,500. More than a thousand people were surveyed.

In short, MBA graduates are still being well rewarded especially in senior positions. Some sectors continue to be extremely lucrative, such as investment banking, consulting and IT. There is no sign, however, of a return to the lavish joining fees of the 1990s.

The survey, which is sponsored by The Times, found that career mobility remains a key benefit of the MBA qualification, with most graduates moving quickly to more respons-ible posts. The qualification is seen as a key factor for many women to be promoted to senior jobs.

Carl Tams, manager of the association’s intelligence unit, which compiles the research, says: “Surveys such as this indicate that the MBA still provides access to more lucrative careers as well as a wide variety of senior positions in many sectors. The value of the degree appears to continue well into a graduate’s career.”

The survey paints a bright picture for school enrolments.The Graduate Management Admissions Council, which administers the GMAT entry examination, reports that 211,010 people took the test last year, up 3.6 per cent; outside America the number rose 11 per cent to 72,622. Last year many British business schools were braced for falling application levels. That trend now seems to be reversed, with many reporting a significant rise.

The University of Bath School of Management says the number of enrolled students on MBA courses is up 20 per cent. Maggi Preddy, the school’s admissions manager, says this indicates that the market is beginning to recover from the dip it suffered at the start of the decade.

Something approaching normal service has been resumed it seems. Although the full-time market is unlikely to return to the 1990s boom, there is growing optimism.

“Any notion of a crisis in the MBA market is fading fast,” says Matt Symonds, director of QS, the international MBA market research and event company. “There are a number of very positive trends. For one thing, McKinsey (the management consultant) reckons that China needs 75,000 trained managers. There’s unprecedented demand in India, with Latin America and Central Europe starting to re-emerge.”

Strong demand for part-time and distance-learning MBAs is helping the recovery. “The MBA has come through the dip it has suffered in recent years and the future looks bright,” says Lynne Stone at Henley Management College. “The most prominent indicator of its revival is the soaring popularity of the distance-learning MBA. Our two-year modular MBA has also come to the fore.” However, Malcolm Kirkup, director of the full-time MBA at Lancaster, sounds a note of caution. Applications to the school are up 30 per cent, he says, but the overall quality of candidates is disappointing.

“The resurgence of managers interested in getting into senior positions via the MBA is encouraging but, unfortunately, many of them don’t have the necessary experience to meet the entry requirements. We are sticking to our guns to maintain quality.”

QS’s Symonds is more sanguine: “The challenge for business schools is to stay relevant and deliver their message.” The generation now approaching 25 years old, he says, wants “to talk face to face about their commitment to corporate social responsibility, or follow the blogs and podcasts” of former students.

“But as long as they can accommodate them, the top MBA schools are sitting on a bull run for the next six to ten years.”? ? ( Courtesy: timesonline.co.uk )

MCLEAN, Va., May 19 /PRNewswire/ — Newly minted MBAs are commanding significantly heftier salaries in 2006 than their counterparts did last year, with the average business school graduate’s starting base salary topping $92,000, according to new research from the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®).

Amid a healthy recruiting environment built on strong employer confidence in the economy, the average new MBA with a job offer in hand will earn $92,360 during their first year of employment, up 4.2 percent from the $88,626 graduates in 2005 received. Moreover, two-thirds of job offers to MBAs in 2006 come with signing bonuses that average $17,603, up slightly from last year.

“The MBA continues to demonstrate its strong value proposition,” said David A. Wilson, president and CEO of GMAC. “In a knowledge economy, leadership and management demand a complex portfolio of skills and talents. A selective MBA program gives its graduate those skills.”

In addition to earning bigger paychecks, more MBAs are finding jobs while still in school, continuing a multiyear upward trend. Fifty-two percent of respondents to the 2006 GMAC Global MBA® Graduate Survey said they had received or accepted a job offer before graduation, compared with 50 percent in 2005, 42 percent in 2004 and 36 percent in 2003.

The survey includes responses from 6,139 students at 147 business schools worldwide. A third of the respondents are citizens of countries other than the United States.

GMAC researchers also found that most MBA students feel their investment in business school was worthwhile. About two-thirds of respondents to the survey rated their degree as an outstanding or excellent value, and another 29 percent said it was a good value. Students revealed that they based their opinions about the value of their MBA on factors such as the quality of the curriculum, their ability to develop key skills and abilities, and the culture of the school they attended. Six percent of participants in the survey said they placed strong emphasis on the potential to increase their financial well- being when assessing their investment in graduate business education.

In addition, the survey found that MBA graduates are, on the whole, interested in the kinds of jobs that employers say they would like to fill. For example, nearly half of respondents said they hoped to land a midlevel position — the type of role for which recruiters say they are most likely to be hiring.

The greatest percentage of students said they are interested in working in the finance/accounting industry, followed by the products/services and consulting sectors. Respondents were least likely to express interest in entering the energy/utilities industry.

The Graduate Management Admission Council (http://www.gmac.com), based in McLean, Va., is a nonprofit education organization of leading graduate business schools worldwide dedicated to creating access to and disseminating information about graduate management education. GMAC annually surveys thousands of corporate recruiters, MBA students and business school alumni to gauge their feelings about the job market and collect other data. The organization also owns the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®), used by business schools around the world to assess applicants. The GMAT was created in 1954 and remains the first and only standardized test specifically designed for graduate business and management programs. ( Courtesy: biz.yahoo.com )

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The Eller College of Management offers dual-degree MBAs with engineering and agriculture, and more combinations are expected soon

Simone Pollard
University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management

MBA graduates from The University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management leave with a combination of business and technical knowledge, says Simone Pollard, associate director of Eller’s MBA programs.

The career-services team assists 200-plus full-time MBA students. Median starting salary for the Class of 2005 was $60,000, with a salary high of $100,000. By graduation, 50% of the class found jobs, and 80% gained employment three months later. Now the program is focused on new dual-degree programs, launched last spring, which allow students to get the business knowhow of an MBA and the technical smarts of a Master’s from the College of Engineering or College of Science, all in just two years.

Pollard has headed both admissions and career services at Eller for one year and is herself the product of a hybrid education. She graduated with a chemical-engineering degree from the University of Virginia and worked as an engineer for Monsanto (MON ) for four years before heading to the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business to earn an MBA. After B-school, she spent three years as a human-resources consultant for Sibson Consulting, then moved into her current position with the Eller MBA program.

Pollard recently talked with BusinessWeek Online reporter Janie Ho. Here are edited excerpts of their conversation:

What are the strengths of your dual-degree program?
We have new dual-degree programs with the university’s engineering and agriculture departments (see BW Online, 1/11/06, “MBAs Who Double Up”). If a student wants to get a Master’s of some kind as well as an MBA, he or she can do that in two years.

Even if you stay technical, you still need to have management experience and business awareness to climb the ladder. The dual-degree program also allows us to tap into a different set of employers, especially in the Southwest, who are looking for strong technical capability.

Are there any more dual-degree programs on the way?
Yes. We hope to launch a dual-degree program with the College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy in the fall of 2007. These will be accelerated like the other dual-degree programs.

How do you seek strong technical and functional students for these dual-degree programs?
We work closely with the undergraduate departments in the hard sciences, which are really strong departments, and let students know about the MBA program. If a top undergrad has great work experience, we recruit him or her to enter the MBA program right after graduation. We also reach out to local tech companies like IBM (IBM ) and Honeywell (HON ) to find prospective students.

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An upcoming open house hosted by the University of New Mexico will focus on its Westside MBA Program. UNM’s Anderson Schools of Management will be holding free information sessions on May 2 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for prospective students interested in the Executive MBA (EMBA) and the new Professional MBA (PMBA) programs. This session will be the second in a series, following a free information session in Albuquerque earlier this month.

The 30-year-old executive MBA, or master’s in business administration degree, is a 24-month, on-campus weekend program for MBA candidates with at least three years of meaningful work experience. The program is held once each year, with the orientation weekend beginning June 23, 2006.

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The new Professional MBA, which will be offering its inaugural PMBA class on-site at Intel Corp. (NYSE: INTC) starting Sept, 8, offers off-campus, evening programs over a 28-month period for those with at least one full year of significant work experience.

The UNM Regents approved a deal earlier this year to acquire 216 acres of land for the Rio Rancho campus in a land swap with the State Land Office.

While the campus is under construction, Intel has agreed to host the Anderson Schools of Management’s classes from 2006 through 2008 at its facilities there. The MBA program in Rio Rancho will closely mirror Anderson’s Executive MBA program, offered at the university’s main campus.

Free Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) prep workshops also will be held in May at the Presbyterian Rio Rancho Emergency Center. A GMAT workshop in Albuquerque is scheduled for April 16.

(Source: bizjournals.com)

The Indian School of Business on Wednesday launched Young Leaders Programme targeting undergraduates.

As part of the programme, the B-school will mentor fresh graduates for two years in their work after the college. It will also pay a scholarship of Rs 100,000 to students selected for this programme.

Students, after the two-year mentorship, can come back to ISB to pursue the regular postgraduate programme (MBA) for which candidates with work experience alone are eligible. For getting selected to this programme, students should clear GMAT and the same will be valid after two years for admission into the PGP module.
According to ISB senior director V K Menon, the selection process will begin a year before students complete their graduation. “The selection of students for the YLP will be rigorous and will last for six months or so,’’ he said, adding they would be needed to make a video presentation, write an essay and go for an evaluation by the ISB. In the second stage, students should clear GMAT and present three essays. This will be followed by on-campus selection at ISB.

Speaking to the media, ISB deputy director Deepak Chandra said ISB would not charge anything for the YLP programme. This would be open to all graduates across disciplines. This will also be open to international students. ISB will take about 50 students in the first year.

Students will have to find a job for themselves and ISB will mentor them for two years on the personal front. The training will have no relation to the job on hand, he said. ISB now has a class strength of 570 for its PGP programme and is hopeful of getting 10 per cent of the strength from the YLP module.

Candidates selected into the YLP are required to complete one year and nine months of work experience before joining the ISB’s PGP. During this period, students will attend contact programmes at the ISB campus at the end of every six months. The contact sessions at the ISB will focus on enhancing their leadership quotient, expose them to diverse career options, network and build relationships with like-minded YLP peers and ISB alumni, share experiences and gain valuable lessons from them. YLP participants will be eligible for a scholarship of Rs one lakh. In addition, they will be eligible for both merit and need based scholarships of the PGP. The YLP participants will comprise about 10% of the PGP class size every year.

The admission to YLP is open till March 15, he said.

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Until not long ago, there was much ado about bright Indian students leaving the country to gain an education and pursue their careers abroad, draining India of her most productive resources. But things seem to be changing now. While the flow of students waiting to gain their higher education in the US or UK has not ebbed, there is definitely an undercurrent developing of Indian students abroad wanting to get back to India.

In a recent, informal study carried out amongst 79 students of Indian origin studying at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business (GSB), more than 84% of the Indian students surveyed were keen to return to India in the near future. About half of the students wanted to return within 5 years of graduation.

To the question on time horizon, Vineet Sekhsaria, a current first-year states “it is no longer a question of if, but when”. Timing the return is always a big question mark. The incentives to return change as people settle into their careers and become more averse to changing geographies.

The trick is to find the right balance. As Sunil Jamdar, a Chicago GSB graduate who returned to set up the Indian subsidiary of a Swiss Bank, advises, “It is always good to get some global experience first, such as in the developed economy of US, and then make a transition to India at a senior level to take on serious responsibilities, the kind of opportunity that may not be available in US.”

Paying heed to this advice, many students have started evaluating their options and establishing links with Indian companies while still in business school. For example, students at Chicago GSB are organizing the Tata India Business Conference on May 6th in Chicago to discuss opportunities in India.

Students are not looking at India for only career opportunities though. Of those surveyed, family was reported as the most important reason to return to India, followed by career opportunity and a sense of belonging. For Ashish Sinha, a GSB alum and now COO of RocSearch, the move to India was a result of multiple reasons including career opportunities and family.

The move back to India he says, “[gives] a lot of personal satisfaction.” Vishal Kapur, a Chicago GSB alum, now working with BCG India recollects that it was a mix of both personal and professional reasons that made him shift back to India “My wife and I are both professionals. (My wife is a lawyer, with a degree from Harvard Law School.) After my son was born, we felt that he would get better care if we lived closer to our family, while the two of us go about our respective ‘aggressive careers’. On the professional front, I wanted to be at the right place at the right time! I truly believe that India has transitioned into a land of opportunities. Liberalization has and is continuing to encourage businesses and I see a success story unfolding each day. It is exciting to be a part of it and to learn from it.”

So how does the work experience in US compare with that in India? Sunil Jamdar offers his view: “Since I worked in both places, experience in India could be frustrating as the processes here are not straightforward, are manipulative and lack professionalism. The biggest challenge used to be to survive the complexities of the age-old system. But I must say with certainty that the geopolitical changes at the macro level and socioeconomic changes at the micro level have brought new energy to the country. People are thinking more globally, more professionally and have become result oriented.”

Yet, poorer quality of life still seems to be a major deterrent for most students who do not want to return to India. The main reason reported by current students for not wanting to move back to India was the better quality of life in the US. As Vishal Kapur suggests to people considering the move back to India, “I would advise them to take a long term view. In the short term, the lack of basic infrastructure can be frustrating.”

More than three-fourths of the students surveyed had lived in the US for over 4 years before joining business school. Moving back to India after spending a number of years abroad may come at a cost. Not having studied at an Indian university may present a hurdle in re-creating a professional network. However, in a work place that values performance and delivery of results, friends can be made easily. Clearly, the lack of a local business school network did not deter Luis Miranda, now President and CEO of IDFC Private Equity. “I came back to India way back in 1989, when it was not fashionable to do so” he says, continuing that “India is home and the opportunities were more exciting.”

Deciding whether to leave the cushy life of the US can be a hard choice to make for many students after their graduation. Leaving lucrative jobs behind and coming back with sizeable student loans can be even harder. But if home is where the heart is, then hopefully we will see more Indian students returning back and helping reverse the brain drain.

(Akshay Sethi is a first-year MBA student at Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago)(Coutesy: economictimes.indiatimes.com)

Joydeep Ray in Ahmedabad | December 07, 2004 09:57 IST

Even though many continue to see GMAT as a must-cross hurdle to gain a career edge, a recent study conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has made a startling revelation — the number of Indian students taking the test has fallen rather alarmingly.

The admission council, which conducts GMAT in partnership with the Executive MBA Council of the US, has revealed a 16 per cent decline in the number of Indian students appearing for the test in 2003-2004 compared with 2002-2003.

The study also indicates that the number may fall by as much as 25 per cent in the next year.

The report is based on feedback from representatives of 352 graduate business programmes and 238 programmes from 143 leading B-schools across the world, mainly from the US, which participated in the survey called ‘Application Trends Survey-2004′.

“Around 16 per cent of the schools surveyed received fewer applications from India, while 25 per cent received less applications from China in 2004 than in 2003. While China tops the list of countries reporting a decline in the number of students taking the GMAT, India comes second followed by South Korea, reporting a 6 per cent decline, much lower than that of India while the US and UK report only a 3 per cent fall,” says the study.

Although the total number of GMAT applicants declined by 4 per cent in 2003-04 compared with 2002-03, it was 16 per cent in India’s case.

The study also reveals that 57,670 non-US students appeared for GMAT in 2003, while in 2004, only 50,629 opted for the test. In 2002, 69,314 non-US students had opted for GMAT.

Interestingly, while the number of Indian students appearing for the test has fallen, the trend is exactly the reverse in the case of the common admission test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).

To find a berth in six IIMs and few other leading B-schools in India, the number of students appearing for the CAT has seen a steep rise in the past few years. In 1999, around 70,000 students took the test, while 1,24,500 took the test in 2003 and the number rose to 1,46,000 in 2004.

A source close to the IIM-A, reacting to the GMAC report, said: “One of the main reasons why Indian students are aspiring more for studying in the IIMs or other such schools in India is the cost factor as US B-schools charge much higher fees than the IIMs, and some of them charge even 100 per cent more than the fees charged by B-schools in the European countries. Then there is the case of IIM graduates bagging international jobs with phenomenal salaries and overseas postings. Salaries offered to IIM grads and grads from US B-schools hardly have any difference.”

(Source: Business Standard)

Temple University’s Fox School International Business Graduate Program Ranked Again in Top 20 By U.S. News and World Report
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PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)–April 13, 2006–For the third consecutive year, Temple University’s Fox School of Business & Management’s International Business Graduate Program has been ranked in the top 20 (#18) in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its 2007 “Best Graduate Schools” ranking released April 3, 2006. Also, for the third consecutive year, the Fox School’s MBA Programs have risen in the rankings.

“This ranking recognizes The Fox School’s outstanding one-year tri-continent International MBA Program, cutting-edge faculty research and teaching, and significant outreach efforts through our Institute for Global Management Studies (IGMS),” said Arvind Phatak, executive director of the IGMS. “And I’m proud that our already high rankings increase each year,” he added.

Fox’s international business program is supported by the high quality of its faculty, its high-profile Center for International Business and Research (CIBER)–one of only 30 such centers in the United States–and the prestigious journal it produces, the Journal of International Management, edited by renowned general and strategic management professor and Washburn Chair of International Business and Marketing, Masaaki “Mike” Kotabe.

Fox’s International MBA (IMBA) Program, a unique immersion in three international cities–Paris or Mumbai, Philadelphia and Tokyo – on three different continents, is the centerpiece of the school’s international graduate programs. In the IMBA program, students spend time at partner schools in France and India and in Philadelphia to work on consulting projects with entrepreneurs from around the globe before completing the program at Temple University’s Japan campus.

In addition to its high rankings in international business, for the third year in a row, The Fox School’s MBA program was ranked among the top 75 (#58) programs in the nation and among the top 20 public-urban programs in the U.S. The Fox School and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, were the only Philadelphia-area full-time MBA programs ranked by U.S. News & World Report.

“We are pleased that U.S. News & World Report has again recognized the excellence of our MBA programs,” said M. Moshe Porat, dean of

The Fox School. The Fox School’s MBA programs have been ranked by U.S. News for the past five consecutive years.

The U.S. News survey measures an MBA program’s quality and selectivity as well as the career success of its graduates to develop the rankings. Quality is assessed through a survey of business school deans and program directors and another survey of corporate recruiters. A school’s selectivity is determined by the percentage of students who are admitted, the entering students’ GMAT scores and their undergraduate grade point average. The ranking also factors in the career success of graduates as measured by average starting salary and bonus, and the percentage employed at time of graduation and three months out.

“Not only does this most recent U.S. News ranking identify our strength in international business, but it also highlights increasingly strong perceptions of our programs and graduates by corporate recruiters,” said Robert F. Bonner, assistant dean of MBA & MS Programs. “Our rankings have been rising consistently each year, climbing almost 10 spots over the last three years. And the breadth and consistency of our high rankings is what our alumni, students and corporate stakeholders expect from Fox.”

In fall 2005, U.S. News recognized the Fox School’s MBA undergraduate program in risk management and insurance (RMI) as the seventh-best program in the nation and the school’s undergraduate international business (IB) program as No. 16 out of more than 400 programs in the nation.

The Fox School of Business and Management, at Temple University, is the largest, most comprehensive business school in the greater Philadelphia region and among the largest in the world, with more than 5,500 students, 147 full-time faculty and 45,000 alumni. Recently, in January 2006, the Fox School MBA was ranked by Financial Times as one of the Top 20 programs among public universities in the U.S. and garnered a #1 ranking in “Value for Money” for public-urban universities. The Fox School was also the only U.S. school to be ranked in the Top 10 in all international categories and received a #1 ranking for international mobility. Accredited by AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), The Fox School’s programs also are ranked internationally and nationally by leading business publications, such as The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. For more information, visit www.fox.temple.edu.

GMAT® Score:
The GMAT® score is for a total of 800. The score is based on a combination of the Quantitative and Verbal sections and will be in a range of 200-800. The Verbal and Quantitative scaled scores range from 0 to 60. Scores below 9 and above 44 for the Verbal section or below 7 and above 50 for the Quantitative section are rare. Both scores are on a fixed scale and can be compared across all GMAT® test administrations. Please note that, if you do not finish in the allotted time, you will still receive scores as long as you have worked on every section. However, your scores will be calculated based upon the number of questions answered, and your score will decrease significantly with each unanswered question. (Source: gmac.org)

Better the score, better the schools. This is the tagline that is  promoted by many training institutes. But what is  a good GMAT score ? Actually, it depends on type of the B schools you are applying for.

Top 25 Business Schools & their Average GMAT Score

Harvard University 708
Stanford University 713
U-PENN (Wharton) 713
MIT (Sloan) 710
Northwestern (Kellogg) 703
Columbia University (NY) 709
University of Chicago 690
Berkeley (Haas) 700
Dartmouth College (Tuck) 696
University of Michigan 692
Duke University (Fuqua) 703
Michigan 672
University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) 701
University of Virginia (Darden) 678
Cornell University (Johnson) 678
New York University (Stern) 700
Yale University 703
Carnegie Mellon University 680
University of Southern California (Marshall) 688
Emory University (Goizueta) 676

By:   Sunita Baruah.

Subject: Meet the Director Admission of the ISB in your city.

Dear Achievers,
Greetings from the Achievers Point

The ISB is having its official Information Session in Delhi on the July 11^th 2010 at The Sheraton Hotel. Here, you would get to interact with Director – Admissions, Senior ISB Alums and the Regional Placement Head of the ISB. The session will not only give you information about the school but also its admissions process followed by a detailed Q & A session. As a prospective applicant you may use this opportunity to connect with Senior Alumni of the ISB and get all your doubts about placements clarified from the Regional Placements Heads.

We believe that if you are serious about applying to the ISB this year you register and attend this session.

The registration for the session is free, but essential. To register, please click http://www.isb.edu/infosessions

Details:

For further details please do not hesitate to reach out to the ISB in any of the following ways:

• Call: +91 40 23187474 / 84 / 94
• Email: pgpadmissions@isb.edu

Warm regards,

Priya Kaur
Centre Manager
Achievers Point
Mobile: 09999424123
Email: counsellor@achieverspoint.com

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Dear Team,

The online application for PGP 2011-12 will go live in a couple of hours.

Here is some key information on this:

Key Dates:

Application Fee:

Admission Fee:

Essay Questions:

Mandatory:
1)     If we were to admit one more student to the class of 2011, make a compelling argument as to why that student should be you? (300 words)

2)     What are your short term and long term goals? How will the ISB help you achieve the same? (300 words)

3)     Please provide additional information, that will significantly affect the consideration of your application to the ISB. (300 words)

Re-applicants:
Above 3 essays and the usual re-applicant’s essay.

Regards,

V. Srinath
Sr. Manager – Admissions & Financial Aid
Indian School of Business
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All one year MBA Program in India based on GMAT & their Application deadline, Work Experience Requirement, Tuition fees, Total seats & Average GMAT score along with official websites.

IIM-A (PGPX)
Deadlines: August 10, 2009
Work Ex: A normal graduate should have 6 to 7 years of post qualification, full time work experience. Similarly, post graduate should have 5 to 6 years of experience. PhD/M.Phil can be evaluated on case to case basis.
Seats: 140-150
Fees: INR 17,52,500
Average GMAT Score: 721.50
Website: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/pgpx/pgpxone.htm

IIM-B (EPGP)
Deadlines: September 30, 2009
Work Ex: A minimum of seven years full time work experience.
Seats: 60-75 students.
Fees: INR 16,75,000
Average GMAT Score: 695
Website: http://www.epgp.in/

IIM-C (PGPEX)
Deadlines: July 31, 2009
Work Ex: At least 5 years of full time post-qualification professional experience
Seats: Approx 50
Fees: INR 14,00,000
Average GMAT Score: 719
Website:  http://www.iimcal.ac.in/pgpex/index.htm

IIM-L (IMPX) Noida Campus
Deadlines: November 10, 2009
Work Ex: Minimum of 6 years full time post-qualification professional experience
Seats: Approx 50
Fees: INR 14,00,000
Average GMAT Score: 700
Website:  http://iimlnc.ac.in/index.php

XLRI (GMP)
Deadlines: January 15, 2010
Work Ex: At least five years of relevant managerial experience
Seats: Not Available
Fees: INR 11,39,500
Average XAT/GMAT Score: 630
Website:  http://www.xlri.ac.in/scripts/gmprogram.php

ISB Hyderabad
Deadlines: September 15,2009 & December 1, 2009
Work Ex: A minimum of seven years full time work experience.
Seats: 572
Fees: INR 17,30,000
Average GMAT Score: 716
Website:  http://isb.edu

SP Jain Mumbai
Programme: 11 months Full Time Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM)
Deadlines: 7th July 2009
Work Ex: Minimum 5 years after graduation.
Seats: Not Available
Fees: INR 5,53,000
Average CAT/XAT/GMAT Score: Not Available
Website:  http://www.spjimr.org/pgpm/admissions.asp

Programme: 2 year Full Time Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)
Test score: CAT or XAT or GMAT (They start accepting GMAT from last few years from Indian students ).
Deadlines: 7th July 2009
Programme Expenses: INR 6,40,000 (approx)
Website: http://www.spjimr.org/pgdm/pgdm_home.asp

Indian Institute of Management, Indore (EPGP)
Deadlines: 31st May 2009
Work Ex: Minimum 5 years of managerial/ entrepreneurial/ professional experience after graduation.
Seats: 60
Fees: INR 18,00,000
Average CAT/GMAT Score:
Website:  http://iimlnc.ac.in/index.php

Great Lakes Chennai (PGPM)
Deadlines: February 7, 2010
Work Ex: A minimum full time work experience of 2 years. However, special profiles with less than 2 years of experience are also considered.
Seats: 300
Fees: INR 8,60,000
Average XAT/GREAT/CAT/GMAT Score: 690
Website:  http://www.greatlakes.edu.in/pgpmHowToApply.php

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Writing a blog can help you
* Blogging makes me a understand “Who am I” – Our journey for long term career goal start from understanding our self. It helps us to give a place to show off our skills.

* Blogging give me admit in top 10 School – Sky high scores and a perfect GPA are good tools to bring to the table but they are not guarantee. Then what is more ? it is simply understanding the what exactly we want to pursue.

* Blogging makes me a better philosopher – Learning unlearning make me feel the sense difficult nuacities subject. For writing the blog we need to understand the complexity. It makes you understand the business differently. Somebody already said that Achievers don’t do anything different they do the thing differently.

* Blogging makes me score 6 out of 6 in AWA – The fact that I practice writing daily has made me a better writer. It

* Blogging makes me a better salesperson – I write like I speak and often I write to sell an idea or even a very specific tactic. It’s amazing, but I find that clearly stating idea pitches in writing has improved my ability to quickly articulate them in selling or interview setting. It’s like you build up this reserve bank of preprogrammed discussion points.

* Blogging makes me a better speaker – This one falls nicely from the previous point but I’ll also add that working through blog posts on meatier topics, those that readers weigh in on has produced some of my best presentation material to date.

* Blogging allows me to test out ideas – I’ve made some incredible discoveries about some of my ideas (okay, and had a few flops too) based on the immediate and sometimes passionate response from readers. I’m currently writing a book that reveals a business principle tested out here.

* Blogging help me in adding one more identity in my Resume –

* Blogging makes my essays unique – It serves as a sort of enhanced writing because it allows employers a unique look at my personality in addition to seeing that I can in fact write.

* Blogging help me in getting in touch with alumni & professor-

* Blogging makes a self employment easier- One of the most cost-effective ways of marketing ourselves is with a help of blogging.

* Blogging helps me to create a network- A blog increases my network because a blog is about introducing ourselves and sharing information.

* Blogging helps us to survive in tough times – At the time of economic recession and rising unemployment, it is always a big challenge to find a good job. Smart blogging can boost our careers at that time .

* It’s satisfying- Whatever else is going on at work or at home, Getting to Excellent gets more readers and more interesting all the time, which is a tremendous source of satisfaction. Which I suppose is another way of saying I enjoy it.

My hope is that, if you’re one of those business folks who has been blogging, but doesn’t know if it’s worth it, or you’ve held off because you don’t think anyone wants to read a blog written by you, this post will give you the leverage of long-term benefits sufficient to keep at it. If you have it’s easy to start!

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Is a Queen’s MBA really worth $58,000 or a Rotman MBA $56,000? Why would you pay $56,000 for a one year Ivey MBA when you can get the same degree from HEC for $10,500, or $23,000 from DeGroote? Is a Schulich MBA worth $42,000? If so, why is an MBA from Alberta only $23,000 or McGill even less at $10,300? What is the value of a $12,000 MBA from Ryerson versus a $38,000 degree from Sauder? All of these are good schools offering very valid MBA programs. Some of them are internationally ranked and some are not, but that is not what sets the price for an MBA.

In part it has to do with location. In Canada universities are regulated by the provinces. Some years ago, the Ontario government deregulated tuitions for professional schools such as medicine, law and business. The argument was that since graduates of professional schools would earn a great deal more than graduates with an arts degree, they should pay proportionately more for their education. Tuitions were allowed to rise to meet market demand and since some of the bigger schools were competing internationally, they began to price their programs accordingly.

Read complete article at http://www.canadianbusinessschools.com/cms/templates/default_template.aspx?articleid=398&zoneid=10

Business School Based on Fees
While applying to a good business school we need to consider the tuition cost. As students always look for return on investment (ROI).

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA Under $15,000
Arkansas State University, Brigham Young University, Concordia University, Elon University, Hofstra University, Howard University, La Salle University, Louisiana State University, Loyola College of Maryland, Monmouth University, New Mexico State University, North Dakota State University, Oklahoma State University, San Francisco State University, Seattle Pacific University, Texas A&M International University, University of Michigan – Flint, University of Southern Maine, The University of Tampa, Utah State University

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $15000-20000
Stetson University, The University of Tampa, University of Mississippi, North Carolina State University, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech (DuPree), SUNY Buffalo, Brigham Young University (Marriott),

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $20000-30000
University of California-Irvine, Minnesota (Carlson), UC Berkeley, Indiana, Texas-Austin, Carnegie Mellon

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $30000-40000
The Pennsylvania State University, UC Davis, Michigan State (Broad), Northwestern (Kellogg), University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, MIT (Sloan)

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $40000-50000
Ohio State (Fisher), Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wake Forest (Babcock), Arizona State, UCLA (Anderson)

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA >$50000
Boston University, Virginia (Darden), Duke (Fuqua), Yale, Stanford University, New York University, Columbia

Note:
Above Costs are for Non Resident Students. These data is compiled from various online resources. Kindly do update in comment box. If you find any factual error.

Business Week 2009 Ranking for MBA based on Return on Investment

Money saved is money earned. Economical meltdown brings more economical sense in MBA applicant to work on Return on Investment(ROI). For your convenient we giving “Business Week Ranking for MBA based on Return on Investment”.

1. IE Business School
2. Cranfield School of Management
3. Manchester Business School
4. Cambridge (Judge)
5. Michigan State (Broad)
6. Oxford (Said)
7. Iowa (Tippie)
8. HEC Paris
9. Illinois-Urbana Champaign
10. IESE
11. INSEAD
12. Rochester (Simon)
13. Brigham Young (Marriott)
14. IMD
15. Indiana (Kelley)
16. Connecticut
17. Ohio State (Fisher)
18. Thunderbird
19. Notre Dame (Mendoza)
20. Int’l McGill (Desautels)
21. Purdue (Krannert)
22. Arizona State (Carey)
23. Georgia Tech
24. Boston University
25. Minnesota (Carlson)
26. Southern Methodist (Cox)
27. Dartmouth (Tuck)
28. London Business School
29. Babson (Olin)
30. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
31. Washington University (Olin)
32. Western Ontario (Ivey)
33. Maryland (Smith)
34. U. of Washington (Foster)
35. Yale
36. Queen’s
37. Stanford
38. Georgetown (McDonough)
39. ESADE
40. George Washington
41. Michigan (Ross)
42. UC-Irvine (Merage)
43. Toronto (Rotman)
44. MIT (Sloan)
45. Emory (Goizueta)
46. Int’l York (Schulich)
47. USC (Marshall)
48. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
49. Vanderbilt (Owen)
50. Harvard
51. Virginia (Darden)
52. Duke (Fuqua)
53. UCLA (Anderson)
54. Northwestern (Kellogg)
55. Pennsylvania (Wharton)
56. Texas-Austin (McCombs)
57. Columbia
58. UC-Berkeley (Haas)
59. Cornell (Johnson)
60. NYU (Stern)
61. Chicago (Booth)