Are you planning for your future career as an MBA?
Let’s talk business school.
If you’re like a lot of aspiring business school students, this won’t be the first time you’ve heard that phrase—and wondered where you stand on the road to an MBA or specialized business degree.
To help you figure out what’s next for you, we’re breaking business school admissions down and offering fun, easy, concrete tips for moving you closer to your educational and career goals.
Where do you stand in planning your future?
Maybe you’ve only thought about going to business school up until now, considered if an MBA is right for your career path, wondered about the actual salary benefits, but you’ve been putting off the idea for when you have more time to plan.
Maybe you’ve done a little digging, investigated the vast and various industries that welcome MBAs with open arms (like energy, tech, health care, to name a few), decided that business school is the way to go, but lost momentum when it came to more concrete decisions—like which program to go to or which standardized test you should take—the GMAT or the GRE.
Maybe you were born ready when it comes to business school prep. You’ve built up the right academic or work background, can quote the ROI of your degree in various industries, and want to get that high-powered career or promotion underway yesterday.
What’s next in your path to business school?
No matter where you stand in the admissions journey, you’re probably motivated by future career prospects. Thirty-eight percent of prospective business school students go for career enhancement, 34 percent with plans to switch careers, and 28 percent are aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses.
So whether you’re just gathering intelligence about the business school experience, already plotting the path toward your future as an MBA, or on the move toward your program of choice, there are still some decisions to make—and a lot of useful admissions information out there to help you make them.
Find out what’s next for your future with our five-question quiz—and unlock tools to help guide you forward, like our step-by-step checklist for your path to business school.
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