Hi All,
I have 14 years of experience. I started my career in India as a developer but in a Trading Tech company and have been associated with IB tech for around 10 years. I have moved from Dev to Business Analyst and now I am a Project Manager/Program Manager in a leading IT company primarily working in the delivery of strategic programs. I am based in London and have a long term residency permit.

I am contemplating an MBA either a full time or Executive here in UK. My current age is 36 I have not entirely made up my mind in terms of course if it makes sense for me to take a career sabbatical, quit my job for a full-time MBA for the immersive experience or do a part-time Executive MBA from any of the leading schools as I am fairly sure my profile matches in their acceptance criteria.

Any thoughts advice on the schools/program which I should be considnering. Also, I feel I have limited time and energy to devote to GMAT due to family commitments are there any schools in the UK/Europe that admit based on experience alone?

Looking forward to any advice/suggestions.
Thanks,

Welcome to GMAT Club.

Your profile and work history sound very accomplished. You should be able to easily transition into an executive MBA program. As to a full-time program, many of the top Bschools, cater mostly to the less experienced crowd. Their programs are built to supply recruits for lower and mid tier management levels which probably would not match well with your experience and your needs. I’m not sure you want to go to school with a bunch of 25-year-olds who want to be doing what you did 10 years ago it could of course be a fun experience. But many of the top programs tend to refer more experienced applicants to their executive education group.

However, some of the lesser ranked programs such as Manchester business school and a couple others will take older applicants which I think is a helpful option in case you do want to take a sabbatical.

That of course brings us to the biggest question, the reason for the MBA. It is great that you are in a position to potentially take a year off. At the same time if you have family obligations and other things such as mortgage and so on, it is tough not to have income for a year. Ideally, your employer would cover some of the cost but that’s not a common case on GMAT Club at least.

Anyway, I think the biggest question you need to ask yourself is what are the goals you’re trying to achieve with an MBA. Be there a full-time program or a executive program, are you trying to switch industries, are you trying to break through the management tears, is this a personal goal, a mix of the above?

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Really worth the advice, Thanks man

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