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AA94
Joined: 21 Jul 2020
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Schools: INSEAD Sept'21 Intake (A) Said '22 (A)
18 Mar 2021, 14:37
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Hi All,
Can anyone (maybe current students or recent alums) provide additional insight into the MBA recruiting scene at Oxford Said? Their most recent employment report is fairly dated and somewhat vague in terms of the actual number of candidates hired by specific employers. Mainly looking to explore Tech / FAANG and CPG opportunities and understand which top employers Said is a target school for.
Thanks in advance!
Can anyone (maybe current students or recent alums) provide additional insight into the MBA recruiting scene at Oxford Said? Their most recent employment report is fairly dated and somewhat vague in terms of the actual number of candidates hired by specific employers. Mainly looking to explore Tech / FAANG and CPG opportunities and understand which top employers Said is a target school for.
Thanks in advance!
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Updated on: 14 Jan 2022, 15:07
Originally posted by oxfordsaidmba on 09 Jun 2021, 17:04.
Last edited by oxfordsaidmba on 14 Jan 2022, 15:07, edited 4 times in total.
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I would strongly discourage anybody from attending this MBA. Here are my general reasons:
(1) Poor administrative and career support. Recruitment is pretty much left up to the individual students to navigate. Consulting placement into MBB is very low (only had 1 or 2 into McKinsey, 1 or 2 into Bain, and 0 BCG... I may be mistaken here), and investment banking recruiting is non existent. To top everything off, our MBA head program director left in the beginning of the year, and the administration has been a nightmare from the inside out.
(2) Teaching is very lackluster in content. Professors discourage students from engaging in anything beyond surface level discussions, and most case questions that we receive for class are just surface level checks.
(3) Access to the broader Oxford ecosystem is a marketing gimmick and doesn't actually exist. Said doesn't really make an effort to engage with the broader university ecosystem, despite them touting that they might do so. Students this year (and in all years prior) have complained about this very point, and the administration has still made no effort to help put on events for business school students to connect with other students. Once again, this is a very self directed effort that you will have to make here, and the administration put in measures to actively discourage such behavior (for ex you are not allowed to bring non MBAs into the business school building, you will never have classes with non-MBA students, and the broader university look down on MBAs in Oxford)
if I had to take a worse ranked MBA program, I would have. This has been an utterly disappointing year for myself.
(1) Poor administrative and career support. Recruitment is pretty much left up to the individual students to navigate. Consulting placement into MBB is very low (only had 1 or 2 into McKinsey, 1 or 2 into Bain, and 0 BCG... I may be mistaken here), and investment banking recruiting is non existent. To top everything off, our MBA head program director left in the beginning of the year, and the administration has been a nightmare from the inside out.
(2) Teaching is very lackluster in content. Professors discourage students from engaging in anything beyond surface level discussions, and most case questions that we receive for class are just surface level checks.
(3) Access to the broader Oxford ecosystem is a marketing gimmick and doesn't actually exist. Said doesn't really make an effort to engage with the broader university ecosystem, despite them touting that they might do so. Students this year (and in all years prior) have complained about this very point, and the administration has still made no effort to help put on events for business school students to connect with other students. Once again, this is a very self directed effort that you will have to make here, and the administration put in measures to actively discourage such behavior (for ex you are not allowed to bring non MBAs into the business school building, you will never have classes with non-MBA students, and the broader university look down on MBAs in Oxford)
if I had to take a worse ranked MBA program, I would have. This has been an utterly disappointing year for myself.
