I visited four Top10 schools in the USA and attended INSEAD, mostly in Singapore. Let me start by saying that the year was beyond expectations. The main difference I noticed compared to the b-schools in the US was that the student body is a quite mature, traveled, and no-bullshit international crowd who know what they want. Average age is higher, and so it becomes a group people who really know how they want to take advantage of that year and bound very easily with one another.
Secondly, being a short program, it is lived in a super intense way. When you know that the program will finish so soon, you REALLY immerse fully and do everything everyday without ever sleeping a full night. I'd bet that people from INSEAD end up studying, travelling, recruiting, partying and etc much more in that one year than people in other programs, merely because of the sense of urgency caused by the short duration.
Thirdly, the campus structure with two intakes, two (or three) campuses with almost everyone exchanging, in addition to the lack of a predominant nationality, means that there's no room for small groups: everyone will meet and hang out with everyone. There is simply no space or time to find a comfortable mini-group and exclude the others... people will be moving around campuses and will end up working, travelling, and partying with every single person on campus, which results in a more rich experience where you will hang out with different people and learn that after all difficult is cool.
I would have chosen INSEAD again and again if I were to start all over. Specially if you are well traveled, educated, mid-career, no-bullshit kind of person, the environment is perfect.
I was sponsored so not much insight here. I can say that every single day we had companies presenting on campus, or job fairs, or coffee chats, etc.
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