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Dear Experts,

Can you please provide a brief Evaluation regarding my profile.

About Me : Male 9+ years of work experience in IT ( 6 years International).

Brief Work experience : Aug 2005 to Jan 2015 - Cognizant Technology solutions , Senior SAP Consultant / Project Lead.

Several awards and recognition during this period.

GPA - 8.4 / 10 ( First class with Distinction) UG Degree - Bachelor of Engineering from Anna university.
12th - 86 %
10th - 91%

Feb 2015 - now - Family Business and a intentional small break from IT.

GMAT : 640 Q47 V 30 IR 4 and AWA yet to receive.

I am looking for one year MBA in the below schools in Europe :

[*]Manheim Business School
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
ESMT
Copenhagen business school

Can you please let me know if my profile is competitive to these schools.

Thanks.
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You have great work experience and a lot of solid international experience as well. While the amount of work experience (9 years) would normally put you more in line for an executive mba - but YES you would be competitive at the schools you are looking at. Have you given any thought to doing an executive MBA as well? The choice of program really depends on what you're looking to do post-MBA. Are you planning on going back to the family business you're currently running or were you looking to work for a larger organization?

All the best,
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You have great work experience and a lot of solid international experience as well. While the amount of work experience (9 years) would normally put you more in line for an executive mba - but YES you would be competitive at the schools you are looking at. Have you given any thought to doing an executive MBA as well? The choice of program really depends on what you're looking to do post-MBA. Are you planning on going back to the family business you're currently running or were you looking to work for a larger organization?

All the best,
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Many Thanks Leah. I do not have an intention to run my family business for long term. Basically I was looking for an one year MBA in Europe with the intention of working as Management consultant post MBA in Europe ( as all my previous experience was in SAP Analytics - Senior Consultant ).

However after going through schools in Germany, I am now devastated whether my decision to study MBA is a right choice.

Reasons :

For example in Germany - I found from many other posts that MBA in Germany has not much of a value. Not sure what is the actual truth.

US and Canada - I hope schools here won't prefer me as my experience is above 9 years and will advice me to do an executive MBA.

Top B schools in Europe ( IMD, INSEAD) - Not sure my GMAT score is competitive enough for top European schools.

I am open to learn new languages, however it is mentioned in many posts that learning language in one year duration ( while studying MBA) is close to not possible. So kind of confused now.

My dream is always to settle down in Europe after an MBA. However I am not sure how I can achieve my aim now.

Definitely I am not in a position to retake GMAT in near future.

Thanks once again for your reply.
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I've actually worked in Berlin for a year and then worked with another German company here in NYC for a while - so I'm familiar with the Germans to some extent. The short answer to your question is that the Germans do NOT hold an MBA degree with the same level of regard they have for a PhD. If you browse through the about us pages of consulting sites in Germany you'll see that most of the partners have PhDs...not MBAs. The other thing I noticed in Germany is that Germans tend to want to work with other Germans. If you're not German they are going to be a lot more reticent about taking advice from you or promoting you to a top position. Obviously I'm making this statement based on my personal observations but a lot of other foreigners echoed this to me as well. In general if a foreigner asks me about working in Germany I will try to steer them away from it...especially someone who is looking for a senior level position like yourself (Germany can be ok if you're just starting out your career though).

Why did you want to go to Germany??? Did you work there previously? I'm happy to do a call with you because I think it would be faster. I think there are a lot of questions surrounding what you want to do with an MBA....if you can achieve that...and where.

I do think that with 9 years of experience you're too old for a FT 2-year MBA in the US. Why don't you want to do an eMBA??? You still get the MBA experience and all the cache that the brand name of the school brings to the table - plus you get to be in class with people who are more experienced and will challenge your thinking - as opposed to you being the oldest in class and probably getting bored.

I think that the positions that companies recruit for at those schoools are going to be too junior for you (and that is why you're too old). I'm a little worried about the same thing in Europe but students tend to be older there and with a one-year MBA that means you'll be a bit younger when you graduate.

Anyway, feel free to reach out [email protected] or post something else here.

Best,
Leah
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I've actually worked in Berlin for a year and then worked with another German company here in NYC for a while - so I'm familiar with the Germans to some extent. The short answer to your question is that the Germans do NOT hold an MBA degree with the same level of regard they have for a PhD. If you browse through the about us pages of consulting sites in Germany you'll see that most of the partners have PhDs...not MBAs. The other thing I noticed in Germany is that Germans tend to want to work with other Germans. If you're not German they are going to be a lot more reticent about taking advice from you or promoting you to a top position. Obviously I'm making this statement based on my personal observations but a lot of other foreigners echoed this to me as well. In general if a foreigner asks me about working in Germany I will try to steer them away from it...especially someone who is looking for a senior level position like yourself (Germany can be ok if you're just starting out your career though).

Why did you want to go to Germany??? Did you work there previously? I'm happy to do a call with you because I think it would be faster. I think there are a lot of questions surrounding what you want to do with an MBA....if you can achieve that...and where.

I do think that with 9 years of experience you're too old for a FT 2-year MBA in the US. Why don't you want to do an eMBA??? You still get the MBA experience and all the cache that the brand name of the school brings to the table - plus you get to be in class with people who are more experienced and will challenge your thinking - as opposed to you being the oldest in class and probably getting bored.

I think that the positions that companies recruit for at those schoools are going to be too junior for you (and that is why you're too old). I'm a little worried about the same thing in Europe but students tend to be older there and with a one-year MBA that means you'll be a bit younger when you graduate.

Anyway, feel free to reach out [email protected] or post something else here.

Best,
Leah
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Thanks again Leah. I shall drop you a mail shortly to your mail id.
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Dear Experts,

Can you please provide a brief Evaluation regarding my profile.

About Me : Male 9+ years of work experience in IT ( 6 years International).

Brief Work experience : Aug 2005 to Jan 2015 - Cognizant Technology solutions , Senior SAP Consultant / Project Lead.

Several awards and recognition during this period.

GPA - 8.4 / 10 ( First class with Distinction) UG Degree - Bachelor of Engineering from Anna university.
12th - 86 %
10th - 91%

Feb 2015 - now - Family Business and a intentional small break from IT.

GMAT : 640 Q47 V 30 IR 4 and AWA yet to receive.

I am looking for one year MBA in the below schools in Europe :

[*]Manheim Business School
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
ESMT
Copenhagen business school

Can you please let me know if my profile is competitive to these schools.

Thanks.
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Hi there,
Yes, admissions is competitive for these programs. Have you considered other programs in EU/US that are 1 year such as USC Marshall 1 year program in US or Oxford/Cambridge in UK?
Best of luck!