YouWu
I’m AN
And I’m wondering whether there are any French friends in this chat group. ideally INSEAD should have quite a few French applicants?
I'm Chinese based in France (studied, lived and worked in France for 10yrs), R2 applicant (got interview invite last Friday). Yep I think some French will apply INSEAD but just my two cents based on my understanding & experience of French education system that I don't think French value MBA that much. Graduates from elite engineering & business schools (Eng: X, Central, Mines, Ponts, etc. Bus: HEC, ESSEC, you can include SciencesPo, and some elite programs of public university like Dauphine 203, UPMC probabilité & finance) can break into anything in France. French value a consistent career path very much so only few people value MBA ((just check the senior management composition of CAC 40 you won't see many people with an MBA) neither for networking - Grande Ecole has it all, nor for career transition - maybe younger generation has a different mindset but at least very rare French people in my circle have such a "chaotic" career path like I do. And it's true, 10/10 French know HEC, but maybe 3/10 French (people in business world mostly) know INSEAD. Most French business schools have MBA degree program as well but Grande Ecole (pre-experience program) program is more prestigious (fierce competition of the "concours" - French prep school that even for some HR an international student who doesn't go through the French prep school to get admission from elite business school is "less" than a French who does the entire process), let alone MBA ..