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

Coronavirus has established popular financial uncertainty and pressured a switch from classrooms to on line finding out over the earlier yr — but demand from customers for numerous MBA programmes around the world has increased.

That delivers new criteria for probable candidates: whether to implement to organization universities now, which types to technique, and how. So the FT has introduced with each other a panel of experts joined to foremost institutions to assist viewers make a decision — in a webinar on Thursday March 11, at 5pm GMT.

Climbing tuition expenses and the chance prices of providing up operate for review have lifted thoughts about the value of organization schooling, and how to harmony brief-phrase sacrifices with the gains of finding out new expertise, developing networks, and progressing or altering a occupation.

The FT by itself ranks a hundred top rated world wide organization universities which offer a huge wide variety of MBAs in distinctive nations around the world, from time to time combining intervals on distinctive campuses.

Applicants need to take into account variables which includes place, duration, specialisms taught and expenses billed. They might also be intrigued in the variety of the college student body and faculty, chances for international experience, and variable commitments to classes concentrated on social responsibility.

Quite a few will need to just take the GMAT organization university entry test, and are in search of information to fully grasp additional about the very best strategies to get ready for the examinations, software letters and interviews.

Our panel involves:

Eddie Asbie, interim govt director of admissions and economical aid at SC Johnson Graduate College of Administration at Cornell College
Virginie Fougea, world wide director of admissions and economical aid at Insead
David Simpson, recruitment and admissions director, MBA and Masters in Finance, London Business College and
Donna Swinford, affiliate dean for college student recruitment and admissions, MBAs, at the College of Chicago Booth College of Business.

They will be joined by Joy Jones, chief merchandise officer and typical manager, assessments, at the Graduate Administration Admission Council (GMAC) and Tarini Sundar, MBA (2020, Northwestern College Kellogg College of Administration), a merchandise advertising and marketing manager at Salesforce.