{"id":51230,"date":"2021-03-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=51230"},"modified":"2021-03-04T08:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:47:49","slug":"what-to-expect-from-the-mba-experience-at-cambridge-judge-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/what-to-expect-from-the-mba-experience-at-cambridge-judge-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Expect From the MBA Experience at Cambridge Judge Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What makes the Cambridge Judge MBA experience unique? [Show summary]<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte Russell-Green, Head of MBA Recruitment and Admissions at Cambridge Judge Business School, explores the one-of-a-kind experience students can expect from the full-time MBA program<\/a> at Cambridge Judge\u2019s historic campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Cambridge Judge is looking for\u2026 and what it can offer YOU [Show notes]<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Are you intrigued by the innovative and venerated Cambridge Judge Business School? Interested in an immersive one-year MBA in the UK? The Cambridge Judge Head of MBA Recruitment and Admissions is our guest today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte Russell-Green earned her bachelor\u2019s in Drama and Theater Arts from the University of London. In only a couple of years, she was working in the MBA admissions world, first as a senior marketing executive for QS World MBA in North America and then in MBA admissions for Cambridge Judge<\/a>. She became Head of Recruitment and Admissions for the MBA roughly five years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you give us an overview of the Cambridge Judge MBA program and focus on its more distinctive elements? [2:03]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Cambridge MBA is a one-year full-time MBA program, run out of the University of Cambridge, which is in the UK, which is in Europe. The great thing about the Cambridge MBA is it really is experiential. The curriculum has been designed to take you on a micro to macro journey, but with each term, there is a key learning milestone: a practical project where you\u2019re working with a real life client. There are two live consulting projects that run alongside your studies, as well as the global consulting project, which is where you work with an international client on site as a consultant, as well as an internship opportunity in the summer. So it\u2019s really experiential, and it\u2019s really, really collaborative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a class size of circa 200, which we find is optimal for us and the learning environment that we have, because you can build meaningful relationships with your classmates. It\u2019s broad enough and diverse enough<\/a> to build a far-reaching network, but you\u2019re really going to get to know everyone in the class. You\u2019re also set amongst the University of Cambridge, so you are a member of one of the famous Cambridge colleges, and you get to have the Harry Potter-style dining experience. It\u2019s a fantastic opportunity and a great life experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the summer term, you can do an internship. We keep the summer term quite flexible because people can be at quite different journeys of their career path. Some people want to do an internship. Some people choose to do another consulting project, or some even choose to do a research paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do the students have any difficulty changing career direction or returning to their home country if they aren\u2019t from the UK? I know most Cambridge Judge students are not. [4:02]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Usually around 90% of the class is international. A really good thing to look at, which perhaps we can link to later, is the employment report<\/a>, which is a great way of seeing where our students go after the MBA. Particularly if you\u2019re coming from the US and you\u2019re used to the two-year standard MBA model, you might feel a bit anxious about the one-year program and it being so fast-paced and over in a flash. But actually we have over 90% of the class switch function sector or location, and actually, over 40% of the class achieve all three. So within that one year, people are able to really change up their career and achieve a lot. Good thing to do would be to look at the report and drill down, but we get people who work in the UK and we get people who go to work internationally in another country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we do also get people who return to their home country. It\u2019s something that our students do achieve. But what I would say, if you are someone from the US who is looking to work in the US after your MBA, then unless it is your goal to gain that international experience and get that one year internationally and broaden your network internationally (because the European programs do tend to be more international with the cohort numbers), if your goal is to work in the US, then I would say, quite honestly, to stick within the location that you\u2019re in because you\u2019re going to be able to build your network there and nurture the existing network that you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How open is the UK these days to MBA grads staying and working for a few years in the UK? [6:01]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The UK government announced last year that they would introduce the graduate route, which is where if you are a postgraduate student and you graduate, you can work in the UK for two years after graduating. Previously, it was three months, and then there was a pilot that extended it to six months. But now it\u2019s going to be two years where people can stay and work in the UK. They don\u2019t have to be sponsored by an employer. It\u2019s really, really good because we\u2019ve got so many international students<\/a>. It\u2019s a fantastic thing for the government to do for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, 16 of the Cambridge Judge grads started their own venture immediately after graduation. Given Cambridge Judge\u2019s small size, that\u2019s about 7% of the class. What does Cambridge Judge offer would-be entrepreneurs? That\u2019s a pretty high percentage of students going directly into entrepreneurship! [6:43]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Cambridge, we have what\u2019s called the Silicon Fen, which is Europe\u2019s equivalent of Silicon Valley. We have the highest investment per capita in Europe, five times that of London. Entrepreneurship is massive here. If you\u2019re somebody that\u2019s looking to go into entrepreneurship or starting your own venture, or even going into something like venture capital, then Cambridge is a real hub for that sort of activity. At the business school itself, we have an incubator called Accelerate, which our students have to apply to when they finish the MBA. We have many people going through that route. In the MBA itself, we have entrepreneurship as a core module, as well as a concentration. The first consulting project is usually with a local startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The university actually has an entrepreneurship society, which is the largest society at the university. It brings together people who potentially are academics, they have a fantastic product or idea or theory, but they don\u2019t have the skills to market it. They don\u2019t have that business acumen. Our students obviously have that business acumen, and people often meet their business partners at these networking events for the entrepreneurship society. There\u2019s so much to offer at Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n