DESTINATION MBA
The Graduate
Management Admission Council (GMAC) has reported that nearly three- quarters of 2011 full-time two-year MBA applicants were from outside a business school’s local area, with 45 percent of the applicant pool coming from outside the country.
This means that most MBA applicants are moving location to do their MBA. And there’s more movement than ever before – a six percent increase in international applicants compared with 2010.
When choosing your business school, apart from the obvious factors such as the school’s reputation, the fees, the rankings and the course structure, the school’s location is paramount. It’s not always about which business school but also where you’re going to be living for a year or two.
BusinessBecause, a global b-school news, networking and jobs site, has met and interviewed hundreds of MBA applicants and students and we’ve come across many people who simply fall in love with the city they plan on doing their MBA in.
We have all heard of destination holidays and destination properties, but how about destination MBAs? Here’s a quick overview of the hippest and most scintillating locations to do your MBA.
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We’ve met people who have chosen business schools because of their proximity to the beach; think UCLA Anderson School of Management for the Pacific surf, UCT in Cape Town for the ‘African Riviera’ and AGSM (Sydney) for it’s famous Coogee and Bondi beaches.
For the history buffs out there what better than to be able to walk round one of the oldest university cities in the world, Oxford, at Said Business School – teaching at Oxford is said
to date back to the year 1096. Or sample the delights of a Roman spa town at the University of Bath School of Management. Ecole Supérieure de Commerce of Paris (ESCP Europe) was founded in 1819 and claims to be the oldest business school in the world. Harvard Business School in Cambridge Massachusetts (just across the Charles river from Boston) was the first business school to offer an MBA program in 1910.
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