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GMAC, the Graduate Management Admission Council that runs the GMAT, have some really interesting information about the MBA courses that are run globally. I was reading a report of a survey that they carried out in 2003 about how many MBA graduates would recommend the Business School where they studied their MBA. Some 4,123 graduates said that they would definitely recommend their school.

The decision factors were also interesting. The major reasons were program management, curriculum quality and the quality of the administration in the school. Other factors were linked with the contribution that the MBA degree had made to them finding good jobs, and the quality of their fellow students.

Many schools pay attention to the mix that they have in class. They will often limit students with some backgrounds, and actively seek out students with other backgrounds in order to be able to have groups of people who will help to contribute to the class learning experience.

# posted by Mary @ 7:48 PM

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That concentration on the mixtures they have in classes sounds very interesting. Rather off the top of my head but reasons why:

1) As you’ve mentioned, part and parcel of the idea of an MBA is the network of similar people one can grow while there. Having similarly highly educated people strung around the world can be extremely useful.

2)Part again of the MBA experience is in the meeting of people from outside the usual background. Of course, all are going to be highly motivated, no one who isn’t does an MBA, but they’ll be from all over the world, with a number of different majors for their first degrees, and be working in a number of different industries. Thus more variation than most of us see.

# posted by failingeconomist : 6:56 AM

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