London Business School, an internationally focused program in one of the most exciting cultural centers of Europe, has a diverse student body with 92% of its students coming from 69 countries of the world.
Application Deadlines:
 Round  1

Application deadline:              15 September 2017
Interview decision sent on:      5 October 2017

Interview period:                     Mid-October to early November 2017
Admission decision sent on:    22 November 2017

Round 2
Application deadline:              3 January 2018
Interview decision sent on:      1 February 2018

Interview period:                     Mid-February to early March 2018
Admission decision sent on:    27 March 2018

Round 3
Application deadline:              2 March 2018
Interview decision sent on:      5 April 2018

Interview period:                     Mid-April to early May 2018
Admission decision sent on:    22 May 2018

Round 4
Application deadline:              20 April 2018
Interview decision sent on:      10 May 2018

Interview period:                     Mid to end May 2018
Admission decision sent on:    19 June 2018

All application deadlines are 17:00 UK time. All Admissions Committee decisions are communicated via email and will be sent on the relevant deadline day by 23:30pm UK time.
Essays:
The essay questions remain unchanged from last year. The MBA applicants for the 2017-18 application season are required to write only one essay of 500 words. They also have an option to submit an optional essay.
Essay 1: What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)
This is pretty straightforward Goals Essay question. You begin this essay with a statement about your post MBA career objectives. Explain what you plan to do after your MBA. Make sure your career objectives are both ambitious and realistic. Be as specific as you can about your goals and specify the industry, your role, and the companies that interest you.

In order to demonstrate how your professional experiences are aligned with these goals, provide a brief career history focusing on your career progression and the skills and knowledge you acquired at each job position. Also, discuss your rationale behind each career move and explain how your career so far has prepared you for your goals.

Then describe where you stand now, what skills you lack to fulfill your career aspirations, and how an MBA from LBS is aligned with your goals. This means that you have to provide a logical connection between your previous experience, your current need of an MBA degree from the LBS, and your future career goals. For this, you will need to do thorough research of the program so that you can draw out a link between specific resources/ offerings of the LBS and your career goals and interests. In addition, reach out to current students and alumni to gain their insights about the program and attend admission events to learn more about the school.

You may organize the essay in the following manner:

• Your Short Term Goals (approximately 100-150 words)
• Career history & accomplishments (approximately 100-150)
• How LBS can help you fulfill your post MBA goals (approximately 200 words)

Even though the essay prompt doesn’t require you to discuss your contribution to the school, it still makes sense (if space permits) to wrap up your essay by briefly stating what value you will bring to the school.
Essay 2-Optional
Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)
This optional essay is a great opportunity to touch upon other key aspects of your candidacy that you didn’t get a chance to discuss in any other parts of the application i.e. essay, résumé, application form. Since you are provided fields in the online application to address any academic weaknesses, e.g. academic probation, class withdrawal, etc., you can use this essay to address other weaknesses in your application such as low GPA, low GMAT, employment gap, choice of recommenders or any other extenuating personal circumstances. You may also provide here more information about your accomplishments, leadership experiences, interests or significant voluntary experience. Please note the word ‘should’ in the essay prompt and use this essay to provide information that you think is relevant to your candidacy.

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The London Business School has posted the  following MBA application deadlines for the 2017-18 admissions season.
Round 1
Application due: September 15, 2017
Decision released: November 22, 2017
Round 2
Application due: January 3, 2018
Decision released: March 27, 2018
Round 3
Application due: March 2, 2018
Decision released: May 22, 2018
Round 4
Application due: April 20, 2018
Decision released: June 19, 2018

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All application deadlines are 17:00 UK time. All Admissions Committee decisions are communicated via email and will be sent on the relevant deadline day by 23:30pm UK time.

For more information about applying, please visit the LBS admissions website.

 
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The London Business School has published the following essay questions for the 2017-2018 admissions season.
Required Essay
What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)
Optional Essay
Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)

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The MBA 2020 application will open in early August. For additional information on applying, please visit the LBS admissions website.

 
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The London Business School MBA class entering this August will have a transformational experience as the school introduces major updates to its full-time program.

According to an announcement made by LBS earlier this year, the new MBA will include flexible exit points at 15, 18 and 21 months, as well as the option for students to tailor their learning alongside core modules of the program. Students will now have a choice of summer work experience – paid internship, consulting placement or Entrepreneur Summer School – and a choice of more than 70 electives in year two.

The program has also added new locations to the Global Business Experiences (GBEs), including Lima and Tel Aviv. The GBE program gives students the opportunity to apply their academic learning in a real-life, global business environment.

Alongside the expansion of the global menu, students will have the opportunity to complete an extended group project in a key London sector. Business sectors will include: entertainment and leisure; technology, media and telecom; hospitality and tourism; healthcare, pharma and biotech; fashion, design and luxury; financial services; and the third sector.

The school’s new MBA format will also offer:

• Tailored modules such as Digital Business and Entrepreneurship, where students can choose courses to fulfill credits alongside mandatory modules, allowing for more customized study
• Option to shorten the length of International Exchange Programme
• Choice of more than 70 electives in year two including new elective Interpersonal Dynamics
• Additional languages including Italian and Japanese, in addition to the existing provision of French, Mandarin, German, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic and Spanish.

As Gareth Howells, Executive Director, MBA & MIF, Degree Education at LBS, noted, “Diversity is at the heart of what we do at London Business School. That’s why we’ve designed our MBA to be the world’s most flexible and accommodating programme, allowing students to tailor their experience to individual interests and career paths.”

For more information on applying, please visit the London Business School admissions website.
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London Business School is a close-knit program with an international focus, set in one of the most exciting centers of culture in Europe. London Business School has student social clubs covering everything from board games to wine and spirits. The experience of living and studying in London is a formative part of LBS, and visiting the city and campus would be an excellent way to understand the benefits of the program.

If you can’t visit LBS before you apply, make sure you reach out to one of the many Student Ambassadors available to share their experiences and tell you more about the school. To learn more about the culture at London Business School, you can read the LBS admissions blog where admissions staff and students (and many who are both) share their thoughts about the school and programs.

This application is streamlined, with only two essay questions. In order to showcase all of your career accomplishments, extracurriculars and personal attributes you will likely need to maximize other parts of the application, like your resume and recommendations. Talk to your recommenders about the experiences in your background you might want to highlight through their letters, and use your resume to describe key moments at work.

REQUIRED ESSAY
What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)

Self-awareness about your strengths and interests will help you refine what you truly want in your career. To take your research into your post-LBS options deeper it could be helpful to talk to colleagues and alumni who have MBAs in your field to identify various career paths. Make sure that your career goals are both realistic and aspirational. Think about the short term roles post-MBA that may lead to your most ambitious longer term goals.

Your past experiences have certainly informed your post-MBA plans, and touching on those most relevant will be helpful to setting the background for your current pursuit of an MBA. To make this essay more than a rehash of your resume, think about explaining the rationale for your decisions throughout the essay. Why did you pursue your past experience and what has been the impetus behind subsequent career choices? At this point, why are you choosing LBS?

As you speak with current LBS students and visit campus or other events, learn as much as you can about the programs, professors, and classes that may help you achieve your goals. What do you think you will learn at LBS and in your time in London that will lead to achievement of your career goals? The network you create during your MBA will open doors for you, and preparing for this essay can help you to make the most of the experience.

OPTIONAL ESSAY
Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)

In describing the LBS vision, continued business impact, the school describes the culture: “We challenge how things are done and we teach our students to constantly question and innovate. We believe in providing our students with the most diverse, world-class and rewarding business education in the world.” This open-ended question is a great opportunity to touch on a personal story and add color to your story to demonstrate how you will be part of this culture. This could be the ideal place to describe a unique background, experience or attribute that did not fit elsewhere in the application.

Diversity can be about where you are from, the culture you identify with, the people you grew up with, or your approach to life. If diversity of experience or attitude doesn’t resonate for you, consider when you have approached a challenge and innovated. When have you taken a new view or challenged conventional wisdom? Global perspective is invaluable as well. Think about stories that could illustrate how you have demonstrated any of these qualities that are valued by LBS.
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This week, Forbes released its 10th biennial ranking of MBA programs, which are divided into three categories: top U.S. programs; top one-year, non-U.S. programs; and top two-year, non-U.S. programs.

As you’ve probably noticed by now, each major ranking has its own particular emphasis, and the Forbes ranking attempts to answer the question: is an MBA worth it?—based solely on the median returns on investment achieved by the graduates from the class of 2012.

“Our ranking of business schools is based on the return on investment achieved by the class of 2012. We examined more than 100 schools and reached out to 17,500 alumni around the globe. We compared graduates’ earnings in their first five years out of business school to their opportunity cost (two years of forgone compensation, tuition and required fees) to arrive at a five-year MBA gain, which is the basis for the final rank.”

University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School unseated Stanford Graduate School of Business to top the ranking of US-based MBA programs for the first time ever, with a five-year MBA gain of $97,100 (Wharton ranked seventh in 2015). With Stanford GSB now in second, Harvard Business School came in third, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business round out the top five.

IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, takes the top spot this year among the one-year MBA programs, up one spot from 2015. The school had a five-year gain of $194,700. “IMD caps its annual enrollment at 90 students, allowing for a very individual approach regarding career services,” Forbes notes, adding that as many as 70 companies work with the school annually to recruit IMD grads.

INSEAD, which is ten times larger than IMD with a class size of 1,055 in 2017, ranks second among one-year programs. “With a five-year gain of $150,400, the payback period is a brisk 2.7 years thanks to salaries five years of school of nearly $190,000.”

Spain’s IE Business School moved up two spots in the rankings and now comes in third, based on its gain of $145,400. With an annual enrollment of 547 students, Forbes notes that IE is the second-biggest international MBA program behind INSEAD.

The Judge Business School at University of Cambridge ($140,000) and  Italy’s SDA Bocconi School of Management ($138,100) round out the top five one-year MBA programs.

For the fifth consecutive time, London Business School tops the list for two-year international MBA programs. “Alumni of its class of 2012 realized a 5-year gain of $119,100, the highest of any 2-year program in the world, and it took the typical graduate 3.4 years to pay back their investment,” Forbes explains, noting that, “In comparison, alumni of Wharton, the top-ranked MBA program in the U.S., saw a 5-year gain of $97,100 and took 3.8 years to pay back.”

Spain’s IESE Business School takes the second position, also for the fifth time in a row. “With a five-year gain of $97,100, up 15.5% compared to 2015, graduates of the Class of 2012 reported earning $156,140 in salary and bonus, the highest first year compensation among our ranked two-year international programs,” the rankings reveal.

The MBA program at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) took the third position, with a five-year gain of $95,000, up 32% compared to 2015. ” The main contributing factor is the Class of 2012 reported having less work experience than prior surveyed classes, and as such, lower pre-MBA incomes,” Forbes explains.

Meanwhile, HEC Paris and Spain’s ESADE Business School round out the top-five non-US two-year MBA programs.

For more on this story, read the complete 2017 Forbes MBA rankings.
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This week, for the first time ever, the Financial Times has published rankings simultaneously for the Americas and Asia-Pacific alongside the European tables. In the FT’s  2017 ranking of European business schools, the top 10 schools have remained the same this year with just  bit of shuffling of positions.

Here’s a snapshot of the top-ranked schools in the various regions.
Top Ten European Business Schools

• London Business School
• HEC Paris
• IE Business School
• University of St Gallen
• INSEAD
• SDA Bocconi
• IESE Business School
• ESADE Business School
• Rotterdam School of Management
• IMD

Top Ten Business Schools: Americas

• Wharton School
• Columbia Business School
• MIT Sloan School of Management
• Chicago Booth School of Business
• Michigan Ross School of Business
• Duke Fuqua School of Business
• Harvard Business School
• UCLA Anderson School of Management
• Kellogg School of Management
• Stanford Graduate School of Business

Top Ten Business Schools: Asia-Pacific

• Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• CEIBS
• National University of Singapore Business School
• IIM Ahmedabad
• HKUST Business School
• IIM Bangalore
• Nanyang Business School
• Tongi University SEM
• CUHK Business School
• University of Hong Kong

This FT composite ranking measures the quality and range of postgraduate programs. The table of 95 schools is based on their performances in the 2017 rankings for MBAs, Executive MBAs, Masters in Management and the two tables for executive education. For more detailed information, please visit the Financial Times by following the links above.
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The London Business School has confirmed that the essay questions for the 2018-2019 admissions season will remain the same as last year. They are as follows:
Required Essay
What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)
Optional Essay
Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)

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Admissions dates for the August 2019 entry have not been set yet, but LBS expects them to be similar to the current cycle:

Round 1: Mid-September 2018
Round 2: Early January 2019
Round 3: Early March 2019
Round 4: Mid-April 2019

SBC will update the deadlines once they are confirmed. The MBA 2021 application will open in early August. For additional information on applying, please visit the LBS admissions website.
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London Business School values independence and original thought. Other values clearly displayed by LBS are multiculturalism and an international approach to business.

This application is streamlined, with only two essay questions. In order to showcase all of your career accomplishments, extracurriculars and personal attributes you will likely need to maximize other parts of the application, like your resume and recommendations. Talk to your recommenders about the experiences in your background you might want to highlight through their letters, and use your resume to describe key moments at work.

Understanding the culture at London Business School will be important to answering the essay questions and preparing the rest of your application for admission. One of the best ways to get to know LBS is to visit campus, and/or interact with a London Business School Student Ambassador. Once you have a good sense of the school and how you will take advantage of the opportunity to attend LBS, you will be better prepared to approach the essay questions.
REQUIRED ESSAY
What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)

Self-awareness about your strengths and interests will help you refine what you truly want in your career. To take your research into your post-LBS options deeper it could be helpful to talk to colleagues and alumni who have MBAs in your field to identify various career paths. Make sure that your career goals are both realistic and aspirational. Think about the short term roles post-MBA that may lead to your most ambitious longer term goals.

Your past experiences have certainly informed your post-MBA plans, and touching on those most relevant will be helpful to setting the background for your current pursuit of an MBA. To make this essay more than a rehash of your resume, think about explaining the rationale for your decisions throughout the essay. Why did you pursue your past experience and what has been the impetus behind subsequent career choices? At this point, why are you choosing LBS?

As you speak with current LBS students and visit campus or other events, learn as much as you can about the programs, professors, and classes that may help you achieve your goals. What do you think you will learn at LBS and in your time in London that will lead to achievement of your career goals? The network you create during your MBA will open doors for you, and preparing for this essay can help you to make the most of the experience.
OPTIONAL ESSAY
Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)

In describing the LBS vision, continued business impact, the school describes the culture: “We challenge how things are done and we teach our students to constantly question and innovate. We believe in providing our students with the most diverse, world-class and rewarding business education in the world.” This open-ended question is a great opportunity to touch on a personal story and add color to your story to demonstrate how you will be part of this culture. This could be the ideal place to describe a unique background, experience or attribute that did not fit elsewhere in the application.

Diversity can be about where you are from, the culture you identify with, the people you grew up with, or your approach to life. If diversity of experience or attitude doesn’t resonate for you, consider when you have approached a challenge and innovated. When have you taken a new view or challenged conventional wisdom? Global perspective is invaluable as well. Think about stories that could illustrate how you have demonstrated any of these qualities that are valued by LBS.

 
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London Business School, an internationally focused program in one of the most exciting cultural centers of Europe, has a diverse student body with 90% of its students coming from 63 countries of the world.

Application Deadlines:

Round  1

Application deadline: 15 September 2017
Interview decision sent on 5 October 2017

Interview period: mid-October to early November 2017
Admission decision sent on 22 November 2017

Round 2

Application deadline: 3 January 2018
Interview decision sent on 1 February 2018

Interview period: mid-February to early March 2018
Admission decision sent on 27 March 2018

Round 3

Application deadline: 2 March 2018
Interview decision sent on 5 April 2018

Interview period: mid-April to early May 2018
Admission decision sent on 22 May 2018

Round 4

Application deadline: 20 April 2018
Interview decision sent on 10 May 2018

Interview period: mid to end May 2018
Admission decision sent on 19 June 2018

All application deadlines are 17:00 UK time. All Admissions Committee decisions are communicated via email and will be sent on the relevant deadline day by 23:30pm UK time.

Essay Questions:

The essay questions remain unchanged from last year. The MBA applicants for the 2018-19 application season are required to write only one essay of 500 words. They also have an option to submit an optional essay.

Essay 1:

What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School Programme contribute towards these? (500 words)

This is a straightforward Goals Essay question. You begin this essay with a statement about your post MBA career objectives. Explain what you plan to do after your MBA. Make sure your career objectives are both ambitious and realistic. Be as specific as you can about your goals and specify the industry, your role, and the companies that interest you.

In order to demonstrate how your professional experiences are aligned with these goals, provide a brief career history focusing on your career progression and the skills and knowledge you acquired at each job position. Also, discuss your rationale behind each career move and explain how your career so far has prepared you for your goals.

Then explain where you stand now, what skills you lack to fulfill your career aspirations, and how an MBA from LBS is aligned with your goals. This means that you have to provide a logical connection between your previous experience, your current need of an MBA degree from the LBS, and your future career goals. For this, you will need to do a thorough research of the program so that you can draw out a link between specific resources/ offerings of the LBS and your career goals and interests. In addition, reach out to current students and alumni to gain their insights about the program and attend admission events to learn more about the school.

You may organize the essay in the following manner:

• Your Short-Term Goals (approximately 100-150 words)
• Career history & accomplishments (approximately 100-150)
• How LBS can help you fulfill your post MBA goals (approximately 200 words)

Even though the essay prompt doesn’t require you to discuss your contribution to the school, it still makes sense (if space permits) to wrap up your essay by briefly stating what value you will bring to the school.

Essay 2-Optional

Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)

This optional essay is a great opportunity to touch upon other key aspects of your candidacy that you didn’t get a chance to discuss in any other parts of the application i.e. essay, résumé, and application form. Since you are provided fields in the online application to address any academic weaknesses, e.g. academic probation, class withdrawal, etc., you can use this essay to address other weaknesses in your application such as employment gap, choice of recommenders or any other extenuating personal circumstances. You may also provide here more information about your accomplishments, leadership experiences, interests or significant voluntary experience. Please note the word ‘should’ in the essay prompt and use this essay to provide information that you think is relevant to your candidacy.

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London Business School (LBS) has made no changes at all to its application essay questions this year (after several previous years of regular amendments), so perhaps the program has settled on prompts that deliver precisely what the admissions committee is seeking. In truth, the school stipulates that only one essay is actually required—one that largely constitutes a traditional personal statement—but some candidates may want to seriously consider submitting an additional essay if they have elements in their profile they believe are crucial to a fair and thorough evaluation. In our analysis that follows, we help you decide and craft your approach, whether you ultimately write just one essay for LBS or two.

Essays are a vital part of your application and we recommend that you spend a significant amount of time in their preparation.

Essay 1: What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words)

As we noted earlier, LBS’s primary essay prompt essentially requests several elements of a traditional personal statement. You will need to show that you have a long-term vision for yourself and your career and that you have a clear plan for how to get there via an LBS MBA. The basic assumptions, of course, are that business school is the next logical and necessary step in your progress and that you need the LBS program in particular, because it offers specific experience, knowledge, skills, exposure, and/or other elements that are necessary for you to attain your long-term aspirations and chosen career. Ideally, you have already researched the school thoroughly to discover these important resources and areas of fit, but if not, do not skip this important step and/or refer only to basic offerings most business schools  have. Your essay must be LBS specific. Demonstrating your authentic interest in the program by offering concrete examples and drawing clear connections between what it offers, what you need, and who you are is key to crafting a compelling essay response here.

Because 500 words is not a lot, avoid going into excessive detail about your past, though you will need to offer enough information to provide context and support for your stated goals. As we have observed, this essay largely encompasses a standard personal statement, so we encourage you to download your free copy of the mbaMission Personal Statement Guide. In this complimentary guide, we present a much more detailed discussion of how to approach and craft this kind of essay, along with multiple illustrative examples.

Optional Essay: Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words)

Applicants often use the optional essay to explain confusing or problematic elements of their candidacy—a poor grade or GPA, a low GMAT or GRE score, a gap in work experience, etc.—and LBS’s can certainly be used in this way. If you feel you need to clarify an aspect of your profile, first check the other parts of the school’s application, which already includes several opportunities to address certain issues (such as academic performance and disciplinary instances). If you can discuss your concern there instead, do so, and avoid using this essay to simply repeat any information provided via that avenue. If you have a problem to address that is not mentioned in the LBS application, we suggest downloading a copy of the mbaMission Optional Essays Guide, which is also available for free, and in which we offer detailed advice on deciding whether to take advantage of the optional essay and, if so, how best to do so to mitigate any concerning elements of your application.

However, if you do not feel your candidacy includes any elements in need of further clarification, you might use this essay instead to offer a more rounded, positive representation of yourself—but be thoughtful about this opportunity. Do not just copy and paste an existing essay you wrote for a different school here and hope for the best. Take a step back and carefully consider what the admissions committee already knows about you from the other parts of your application, including, of course, your other essay. Then, do your utmost to develop and convey a narrative that is truly crucial to understanding your character. Because this question is so open-ended, your options are somewhat limitless. You will need to honestly check your instincts and ask yourself whether you are simply tacking something extra onto your application with this essay or whether you are presenting an authentic representation of who you are as an individual. Be mindful and respectful of the admissions committee’s time, and remember that each additional file you submit requires more resources on behalf of the admissions office, so whatever you write must be truly worthwhile and clearly reveal that you made good use of this opportunity to provide further insight into your candidacy.

Business schools outside the United States are increasingly popular among MBA hopefuls, and we at mbaMission are proud to offer our latest publications: Program Primers for international b-schools. In these snapshots we discuss core curriculums, elective courses, locations, school facilities, rankings, and more. Click here to download your free copy of the London Business School Program Primer.

The Next Step—Mastering Your LBS Interview: Many MBA candidates find admissions interviews stressful and intimidating, but mastering this important element of the application process is definitely possible—the key is informed preparation. And, on your way to this high level of preparation, we offer our free Interview Primers to spur you along! Download your free copy of the London Business School Interview Primer today.

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The London Business School has posted the  following MBA application deadlines for the 2018-19 admissions season.
Round 1
Application due: September 14, 2018
Decision released: November 21, 2018
Round 2
Application due: January 3, 2019
Decision released: March 28, 2019
Round 3
Application due: March 1, 2019
Decision released: May 22, 2019
Round 4
Application due: April 17, 2019
Decision released: June 19, 2019

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All application deadlines are 17:00 UK time. All Admissions Committee decisions are communicated via email and will be sent on the relevant deadline day by 23:30pm UK time.

For more information about applying, please visit the LBS admissions website.
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Hello Admission Consultants,

I am working on my applications and LBS & INSEAD are my dream schools.
Could you tell me if I have a realistic chance? If not, which schools could I target?
And how could my story be done effectively?

GMAT - 720 - Q47, V33, IR-5
Indian Male
Chartered Accountant
Profile - Internal Audit
Age- 29

Workex - 72 months
20 Months - Very Large e-Commerce Company in India
10 Months - Large e-Commerce Company in Middle East
48 Months - Mid-sized start-up in India (startup focused on Health-Tech and Wearables)

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I have created significant impact in each of my companies including driving large fin-tech initiatives.
I have worked with C-Suite and investors. I led fund-raise during my stint in the health-tech start-up.

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Why MBA ?

Move into a focused Product / Senior Manager Fin-tech role in Europe which is the current center of innovation. In the LT, start my own P2P lending marketplace start-up

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Acads are average, nothing that stands out like IIT or any of that sort.

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I have noted from my interactions with a couple of admits that current and past pay is asked in the application forms.

What is the kind of average Pre-MBA salaries for Indians who do get accepted?

London Business School, an internationally focused program in one of the most exciting cultural centers of Europe, has a diverse student body with 92% of its students coming from 69 countries of the world.

Application
Deadlines:

 Round 1

Application deadline:
             13
September 2019

Interview decision sent on:      10 October 2019

Interview period:                    
Mid-October to early November 2019

Admission decision sent on:    20 November 2019

Round 2 

Application deadline:
             03
January 2020

Interview decision sent on:      06 February 2018

Interview period:                    
Mid-February to early March 2020

Admission decision sent on:    31 March 2020

Round 3

Application deadline:
             05
March 2018

Interview decision sent on:      07 April 2018

Interview period:
                   
Mid-April to early May 2020

Admission decision sent on:    21 May 2020

Round 4

Application deadline:
             22
April 2020

Interview decision sent on:      10 May 2018

Interview period:
                   
Mid to end May 2020

Admission decision sent on:    18 June 2020

All application deadlines are 17:00
UK time. All Admissions Committee decisions are communicated via email and will
be sent on the relevant deadline day by 23:30pm UK time.

Essays:

The essay questions
remain unchanged from last year. The MBA applicants for the 2019-20 application
season are required to write only one essay of 500 words. They also have an
option to submit an optional essay of 500 words.

Let’s take a closer look at the
essays:

Essay 1:

What are your post-MBA goals and how
will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute
towards these? (500 words)

This
is a straightforward Goals Essay
question. You begin this essay with a statement about your post MBA career
objectives. Explain what you plan to do after your MBA. Make sure your career
objectives are both ambitious and realistic. Be as specific as you can about
your goals and specify the industry, your role, and the companies that interest
you.

To
demonstrate how your professional experiences are aligned with these goals,
provide a brief career history focusing on your career progression and the
skills and knowledge you acquired at each job position. Also, discuss your
rationale behind each career move and explain how your career so far has
prepared you for your goals.

Then
describe where you stand now, what skills you lack to fulfill your career
aspirations, and how an MBA from LBS is aligned with your goals. This means
that you have to provide a logical connection between your previous experience,
your current need for an MBA degree from the LBS, and your future career goals.
For this, you will need to do a thorough research of the program so that you
can draw out a link between specific resources/ offerings of the LBS and your
career goals and interests. In addition, reach out to current students and
alumni to gain their insights about the program and attend admission events to
learn more about the school.

You may organize the essay in the
following manner:

• Your Short-Term Goals (approximately 100-150 words)
• Career history & accomplishments (approximately
  100-150)
• How LBS can help you fulfill your post MBA goals
  (approximately 200 words)

Even though the essay prompt doesn’t
require you to discuss your contribution to the school, it still makes sense
(if space permits) to wrap up your essay by briefly stating what value you will
bring to the school.

Essay 2-Optional

Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee
should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500
words)

The
optional essay is a great opportunity to touch upon other key aspects of your
candidacy that you didn’t get a chance to discuss in any other parts of the
application i.e. essay, résumé, application form. Since you are provided fields
in the online application to address any academic weaknesses, e.g. academic
probation, class withdrawal, etc., you can use this essay to address other
weaknesses in your application such as low GPA, low GMAT, employment gap,
choice of recommenders or any other extenuating personal circumstances.

Even
if you do not have any weakness in your profile, I would highly recommend  you to write this essay to provide more
information about your accomplishments, leadership experiences, interests or
significant voluntary experience since the required single essay doesn’t leave
you much space to discuss your past accomplishments. Please note the word ‘should’
in the essay prompt and use this essay to provide information that you think is
relevant to your candidacy. Also, the 500 limit of this essay allows you to
throw a spotlight on those key aspects of your candidacy that you couldn’t
cover in the required one essay.

For further
assistance in developing your application essays, you may review the general Essay Tips.

For essay
analysis  of other schools by MER, click here.

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global MBA, programs, including. ( Poonam is 
one of the top 5 most reviewed consultants on the GMAT Club.

You may email Poonam at myessayreview.com">poonam@myessayreview.com
with questions about your LBS application.

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Are you seeking an MBA program with a global community and access to a major city? If so, London Business School may be a great option for you.

With acclaimed professors and visiting speakers from around the world, and students representing 66 nationalities in the class of 2021, London Business School is truly a global hub. Information on the class of 2021 also notes that 38% of students are female, and students have an average of 5 years of pre-MBA experience.

If you have decided that the London Business School full-time MBA program is a good fit for you, Personal MBA Coach is here to guide you through the essay-writing process.

The upcoming London Business School application deadlines are as follows:

Round 2: January 5, 2021

Round 3: March 4, 2021

Round 4: April 27, 2021

Once again, London Business School asks applicants to answer one required essay question. This year, the school is minimizing changes and keeping the question the same as the previous application cycle.

London Business School gives candidates the opportunity to answer an optional essay question as well, which also remains the same this year.

London Business School’s 2020-2021 MBA Application Essays:

Essay 1: What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words maximum)

Essay 2 (Optional): Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words maximum)

Please see below for Personal MBA Coach’s tips on how to answer London Business School’s MBA application essay questions.

Personal MBA Coach’s MBA Essay Writing Tips:

Essay 1: What are your post-MBA goals and how will your prior experience and the London Business School programme contribute towards these? (500 words maximum)

This is a standard goals essay. Personal MBA Coach recommends beginning your essay by providing some background context about yourself and detailing your career accomplishments to date.

After sharing this background information, go on to discuss your MBA goals. If you are having trouble articulating your goals, take a look at Personal MBA Coach’s six key pieces of advice here.

The remaining bulk of your essay should specifically discuss how attending London Business School will help accomplish these goals. Be sure to research everything that London Business School’s MBA program has to offer and detail what you plan to take part in on campus. Is there a class you want to take? A club you hope to join? Mention these here and clearly explain how they relate to your MBA goals.

Essay 2 (Optional): Is there any other information you believe the Admissions Committee should know about you and your application to London Business School? (500 words maximum)

While I normally do not advise most candidates to complete optional essays, you should consider answering this essay. This is the chance to tell London Business School a bit more about who you are and what makes you unique.

Possible topics to cover here include extracurricular leadership roles or other work that is not presented in the rest of your application. This could be a personal story, triumph, or a side project you were involved in.

Founded by a Wharton and MIT graduate, we regularly help applicants navigate their applications each year. We also conduct mock interviews with former M7 interviewers on our team.

Personal MBA Coach has been helping candidates through all aspects of the MBA application process for 13 years with a 96% success rate. Call us today at +1 617-645-2424 or email scott@personalmbacoach.com for a free consultation on your profile along with how we can help make your MBA dreams a reality!

For more MBA application tips, check out the following blogs:

What Is an MBA Resume?

4 “Seemingly Obvious” Application Mistakes

How to Ensure Your MBA Letters of Recommendation Shine

The Financial Times recently released its 2021 Global MBA Rankings. This year, several international schools rose in the ranks. European schools now hold the top two spots, INSEAD jumping from #4 to #1 to replace Harvard Business School. Similarly, London Business School rose from #7 to #2, taking the second-place spot from Wharton.

This shift in rankings was heavily influenced by the decision not to compete by three of last year’s top five (Harvard Business School, Wharton, and Stanford GSB). The omission of these schools serves as a reminder that rankings can aid in the school selection process but are not the be-all and end-all.

While US MBA programs still dominate the latest FT MBA rankings, only five of the schools in this year’s top 10 are US business schools – down from six in 2020.

Chicago Booth jumped from #10 to #3, and Yale SOM (#14 in 2020) tied with IESE Business School (#13 in 2020) for the #4 spot. Kellogg also moved up considerably from #11 to #6.

CEIBS and HEC Paris tied to secure #7, CEIBS with a two-spot decline and HEC Paris with a two-spot jump. Rounding out the top 10 were Duke Fuqua (#9) and Dartmouth Tuck (#10). Both of these US business schools tied for #16 in the previous FT rankings.

Even before the global pandemic, Personal MBA Coach was guiding an increasing number of clients interested in MBA programs outside of the US. Now, in part due to Covid-19, interest in these programs is growing rapidly. In 2020, European business schools reported a 50.1% increase in domestic applications. While international applications from Europe also increased by 20.8%, 2020 was a particularly strong year for European programs.

As you review these numbers, keep the following advice in mind to better understand how to think about MBA rankings. Personal MBA Coach is a full-service admissions consulting firm, and school selection is a crucial part of the process that we help with!

1) Look at MBA rankings to get the lay of the land.

MBA rankings are useful in showing what schools exist, where they are located and how they stack up. Use these rankings to get a general overview of the business school landscape.

2) Uses statistics as an initial guide.

Statistics such as acceptance rate and average GPA and GMAT/GRE/EA of enrolled students will provide some solid benchmarking data. However, it is important that you use these numbers only as an initial guide since the entire applicant package matters much more.

Plenty of candidates with lower-than-average GPAs or GMAT/GRE/EA scores gain admission each year while others with higher scores do not.

3) Pay attention to average ranking over time.

Average ranking over time is important when evaluating MBA rankings. When you are courting that investor ten years down the road, they will not know what the ranking was when you applied to business school, but they may look at the current standing. This is why it is important to consider average ranking over time—has the school stayed consistently in the top tiers?

4) Look at general trends.

Nearly every ranking scale will show different results. Of course, certain schools will remain in the top ten in nearly every ranking, but the general list tends to vary significantly from one source to the next. Similar to ranking over time, the general trend across different scales is most important.

5) Notice how rankings vary by industry.

While all business schools emphasize strong general management education, each one has a different area of expertise. Therefore, it is important to recognize how schools perform in industry-specific rankings as well.​

About Personal MBA Coach:

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We help clients with all aspects of the MBA application process including early planning, GMAT/GRE/EA tutoring, application strategy, school selection, essay editing and mock interviews. Our team includes a former M7 admissions director and former M7 admissions interviewers.

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