Business School Research

Although International MBA aspirants compare their GMAT scores with the class average of their target school, they often don’t pay close attention to the TOEFL score. For Business Schools, TOEFL test is a guarantee that you have the ability to communicate with your peers and professors. We have picked top 20 Global MBA programs from FT MBA ranking and have included the TOEFL Score for each school.

Before you ask whether a specialization MBA or Master's in Machine Learning is important, understand where it all began. Over 140 AI companies have been acquired since 2011 with the momentum on Mergers & Acquisitions peaking in 2016

The 24-month General Management MBA program offered at Haas School of Business is built on leadership as the foundational skills. The school is also among the few top Business Schools with defining guiding principles – Student Always, Confidence without Attitude, Question the Status Quo and Beyond Yourself.

On the other end, Ross 2-year Full-time MBA program at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business is among the few schools that believe in hands-on learning over traditional lectures and case study.

In a span of just 10 years (1999 to 2009), the US Economy went through two booms and busts. The 2001 bust was the result of irrational exuberance that you see when new technology has not found a foothold on the market. Speculators jack up the price. Real investors play along. And then all go to the dust.

In the third part of the interview, Brandon highlights the funding options available for RSM International MBA applicants and the entry criteria for the Full-time MBA program. 

Suzy Welch, Business Writer, for BusinessWeek has popularized the 10-10-10 rule. According to the rule, before making any tough decisions, ask three questions: How would you feel after 10 minutes, How would you feel after 10 months, and How would you feel after 10 years. We would like to modify the rule, by a touch, and apply it while selecting MBA programs: MIT vs Stanford, Wharton vs Harvard, Kellogg vs Booth, LBS vs Insead, IE vs IESE, and other close ones.

The 10 Minute impact of the rule seems a little stretched unless they are decisions like proposing to your partner, saying yes to non-refundable products, and other decisions where backtracking is not encouraged, or consequences are catastrophic.


Here is how you apply the 12-10-10 Rule

We falsely put hope in our intuitions, or in plain English “fuzzy logic reached through biases, our limited life experiences, and exposure to Business School’s marketing.” Life-changing decisions can falter with this limiting method.

Instead of relying on intuition, let us go systematically through the attributes that are important to you.

First Part of the Series - Insead MBA vs London Business School MBA Program. Also include living cost comparison between London, Paris, Abu Dhabi and Singapore.

Compare over 9 Factors and find out which school is better for you

Our innate curiosity has made us a species that is dominant over all the animals. The “Why”, “When”, “What”, “Where”, and “How” questioning is useful not only for our daily lives but extremely useful for MBA Admissions. Each stage of the admission process requires us to ‘ask questions’.

One data that applicants have always assumed to be valid and thorough is the business school ranking survey response rate. Most surveys get anywhere between 20-30% responses from the entire alumni pool. This is much worse than the average voter turnout in leading democracies – United States (48%) and India (58%). Citizens in these countries are vocal about the apathetic state of the election process. However, when it comes to a $75,000 to $200,000 decision, our ability to question data seems to be suppressed by the constant PR articles about Business School ranking.


Find out why Curiosity is important for GMAT Prep, Essays, Interviews and Business School Research

As a mean to measure loyalty, Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix introduced Net Promoter® (NPS) score, a scale from 0 to 10 that measures an Alumni’s likelihood of recommending the Management program. A score of 9 to 10 means highlight likely, 0 to 6, least likely and 7-8 neutral. A 45+ score mean, the Alumni highly recommend the program.

MBA Satisfaction Score

IE Business School and IESE have retained the top spot in all major ranking publications including The Economist, and the Financial Times. In spite of Spain's Shrinking Economy, IESE and IE Business School have maintained the top spot.

Find out what makes them stand out and their differences!

Google Trends gives us insight into the search demand for various keywords. We have collected data for Top 5 MBA Programs to learn how the MBA programs are measuring up against each other in online search space, and the general demand for these MBA programs from Feb 2004 to Sep 2016.


The demand is going down steadily for top MBA programs. Find out more >>

Italy is among the 9th largest economies, with the 2015 GDP reaching $1,814 billion. More than 90% of Italian companies are small and medium-sized entities that manufacture top class consumer goods all over the world.