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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.”

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https://cdn.stacyblackman.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/London-Business-School-from-Wiki-Commons.jpg  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 (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.

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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?

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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 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
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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

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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 2022 , London Business School is truly a global hub. Information on the class of 2022 also notes that 36% of students identify as 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.

Once again, the London Business School application will ask 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 2021-2022 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 London Business School Essay 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 you 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 Personal MBA Coach normally does 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.

About Personal MBA Coach:

Founded by a Wharton MBA and MIT Sloan graduate who sits on the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants Board of Directors,  Personal MBA Coach  has been guiding clients for 14 years and is consistently ranked #1 or #2, currently holding the #1 ranking in the US on Poets&Quants.

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 interview. Our team includes former M7 admissions directors and former M7 admissions interviewers.

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From the application process through his entire time at London Business School, Giri Kesavan was intentional about what he wanted.  In this week's episode of the Gurufi / GMATClub MBA Podcast, hear his approach to choosing, applying to, and excelling at his MBA program.

Whether you're applying to LBS or another top business school, be sure to check out Gurufi.com for consulting and editing on your Personal Statements and other written application materials, including CVs and short answers. Check us out at  Gurufi.com . Our editors have decades of experience helping clients get into top Masters and Ph.D. programs in STEM, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Our specialty is helping you craft compelling personal statements that move the needle in your admissions process! For questions, shoot us an email at  service@gurufi.com . Check us out on  Facebook ,  Twitter , and  LinkedIn .

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