How to Choose the Right MBA Abroad
Today, an MBA is the most
prestigious qualification in the world. It offers the potential for talented
young professionals to place themselves in the shop window for the most
prestigious and highest paying recruiters in the world.
MBA qualification helps those who want to change careers; it helps in
understanding the model of business how to be runned? MBA is not just another
degree to add to your cv but a learning experience which will stay for life.
Some of the points to keep in
mind when selecting an MBA degree are: -
International reputation
Reputation locally
Flexibility and convenience
Areas of specialization
A reputation internationally
helps a student to migrate across countries, establish a high end network,
Believe me, when I say this that is what differentiates a local MBA university
and an internationally recognised one is the network of peers. The peers who
tend to give you an exposure of different cities across world, give you the
insights of different markets and avenues to opt for. The peers with whom you
could partner and create a venture of your own, giving your ideas a right
channel to be invested in. You would be having a class of say 200 coming from
around 40 countries, this surely gives you a different prospective about
businesses across globe.
Don't just join a b-school
because it's ranked no 1. The question is would you survive there? Have you been
before hand in such environment where you can cope up pressure? The word
slogging would be very much known to readers if they have already passed out
from this rigorous study or else please do find the correct meaning of the word
slogging from the dictionary because it would be a very important one for the
next phase of life. If you are doing MBA in say U.K being 1 year or U.S being 2
years generally, you will have work on 24/7 basis so again the flexibility tends
to play a pivotal role.
Return on investment should be a
criterion that has to be kept in mind while applying to different universities.
Check out the alumni's try questioning them, see how the university has placed
their students, you should look at a career benefit and your own uplifment in
regards with intellectual and peer growth.
Area of Specialisation has to be
kept in mind when searching for MBA. A university might be ranked 1 but that
doesn't mean your area of specialisation is taught best there. An example would
be if you opt for finance than Wharton (Univ of Pennsylvania) is the best but if
you think marketing is what you love than London Business School is where you
would like to go. Try to understand which university offers what course best for
you.
Quality of faculty is again a
very important aspect to consider. Try to search out faculty research in giving
to the industry original research influences the prestige it acquires in the
industry.
