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

Coronavirus has developed widespread financial uncertainty and pressured a change from lecture rooms to on the internet discovering in excess of the previous year — however demand for many MBA programmes about the earth has amplified.

That brings new considerations for possible candidates: no matter whether to apply to small business educational institutions now, which kinds to solution, and how. So the FT has introduced with each other a panel of specialists linked to leading institutions to support viewers determine — in a webinar on Thursday March eleven, at 5pm GMT.

Growing tuition charges and the chance charges of offering up work for study have lifted inquiries about the value of small business training, and how to harmony quick-expression sacrifices with the rewards of discovering new abilities, setting up networks, and progressing or switching a job.

The FT by yourself ranks a hundred best global small business educational institutions which provide a extensive wide variety of MBAs in different international locations, in some cases combining durations on different campuses.

Candidates require to think about aspects which includes place, duration, specialisms taught and charges billed. They may also be intrigued in the range of the scholar physique and school, options for international working experience, and variable commitments to programs concentrated on social accountability.

A lot of will require to just take the GMAT small business school entry take a look at, and are trying to find advice to fully grasp additional about the very best techniques to put together for the examinations, application letters and interviews.

Our panel features:

• Eddie Asbie, interim govt director of admissions and financial support at SC Johnson Graduate University of Management at Cornell University

• Virginie Fougea, global director of admissions and financial support at Insead

• David Simpson, recruitment and admissions director, MBA and Masters in Finance, London Business University and

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

They will be joined by Joy Jones, chief solution officer and common manager, assessments, at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) and Tarini Sundar, MBA (2020, Northwestern University Kellogg University of Management), a solution marketing manager at Salesforce.