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

Coronavirus has developed common economic uncertainty and forced a swap from school rooms to on the internet finding out in excess of the previous yr — however need for many MBA programmes about the globe has greater.

That delivers new issues for potential candidates: whether or not to use to company educational facilities now, which ones to solution, and how. So the FT has introduced alongside one another a panel of industry experts connected to primary institutions to aid readers determine — in a webinar on Thursday March 11, at 5pm GMT.

Mounting tuition fees and the possibility charges of offering up operate for analyze have elevated thoughts about the benefit of company education, and how to harmony limited-phrase sacrifices with the positive aspects of finding out new expertise, developing networks, and progressing or shifting a career.

The FT by yourself ranks a hundred top world company educational facilities which provide a extensive assortment of MBAs in diverse countries, sometimes combining intervals on diverse campuses.

Applicants need to contemplate variables which include place, period, specialisms taught and fees charged. They could also be intrigued in the diversity of the scholar body and college, alternatives for global encounter, and variable commitments to courses focused on social obligation.

A lot of will need to choose the GMAT company faculty entry check, and are seeking tips to have an understanding of additional about the best practices to put together for the tests, software letters and interviews.

Our panel includes:

• Eddie Asbie, interim executive director of admissions and fiscal support at SC Johnson Graduate College of Management at Cornell University

• Virginie Fougea, world director of admissions and fiscal support at Insead

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

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

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