Applicants to the HEC Paris’s MBA program have their work cut out for them as far as writing application essays goes. Candidates must submit a total of five essays (and may add a sixth, if they wish) that cover a wide range of topics. One submission is a fairly standard personal statement, but then applicants … Read More
The past year has been turbulent and unusual in many ways, and the MBA application season is no exception. In April 2020, the Graduate Management Admission Council and two accreditation agencies sent a joint letter to ranking institutions asking them to halt or postpone their work until further notice because of the unpredictability of the … Read More
When the Financial Times (FT) released its 2020 Global MBA Ranking this week, it featured a new program in the number-one slot: Harvard Business School. The well-known program is no stranger to the FT ranking’s top spot, however, having most recently held the position in 2015. Last year’s top program, Stanford Business School, is ranked … Read More
The Economist released its 2019 full-time MBA ranking last week with a familiar name in first place: the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Although the number-one program was unchanged from the 2018 ranking and many schools in the top ten—including Harvard Business School, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and the … Read More
London Business School (LBS) has stood at the top of the Financial Times (FT) European business school ranking since 2013, and the school took first place once again in the recently published FT 2018 ranking. The United Kingdom was well represented in the top 20 despite the threat of declining interest due to Brexit—in fact, … Read More
