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TOP BUSINES
S SCHOOLS IN THE WORLD
London Business School
Harvard Business School
Wharton Business School
University Of Chicago
Columbia Business School
INSEAD
MIT Sloan
Indian School Of Business
London Business School
Established : 1964 London Graduate School of
Business Type : Public Endowment : £75.4m Chancellor : HRH The Princess Royal
(University of London) Dean : Sir Andrew Likierman Students : 2,000 Location : London, England, UK Campus : Urban Affiliations : University of London Websites : www.london.edu
London Business School (LBS) is an international business school and a constituent college of the University of London, located in central London, beside Regent's Park. LBS teaches postgraduate programmes in finance and management, in addition to its flagship Master of Business Administration (MBA and EMBA) program, it also offers the Sloan Fellowship Program for experienced business executives, a Masters in Finance (also known as MiF, a finance specialist programme), a Masters in Management for students with less than a year's work experience, a PhD, as well as non-masters programmes for business executives.
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The school's flagship is its 15-21 month Master of Business Administration degree. MBA students take a prescribed set of core courses, then choose electives from a choice of 70. The core course includes:
Full-time MBA
Finance Strategy Marketing Managerial Economics Management Accounting Operations and Technology Management Statistics Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Managing Organisational Behaviour Global Leadership Assessment for
Managers
London Business School Court Yard in Snow
Fees for both the full-time and Executive MBA programmes are approximately £49,900 (not including living expenses).
To be considered for admission, a candidate must submit the following:
Application essays CV/resume Two recommendation letters Copies of university transcript(s) GMAT score TOEFL score, if applicable An application fee of £160
Admission
The LBS campus is located in Marylebone, on the perimeter of Regent's Park and a short walk from Baker Street underground station. The main building, projected by John Nash along with the entire area of Regents Park, was originally built as 26 terraced houses in 1822-23. There are ten pointed cupolas along the roofline. The façade is adorned with Corinthian columns.
Campus
Harvard Business School
Established : 1908Type : PrivateEndowment : US$2.3 BillionDean : Nitin NohriaAcademic staff : 200Admin. Staff : 1,100Students : 1,837 MBA
100 Ph.D.Location : Boston, MA, USACampus : UrbanAffiliations : Harvard UniversityWebsite : hbs.edu
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is widely recognized as the top business school in the world. The school offers a full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive education programs. It owns Harvard Business School Publishing, which publishes business books, online management tools for corporate learning, case studies, and the monthly Harvard Business Review
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HBS offers a two-year full time MBA program, which consists of one year of mandatory courses (Required Curriculum) and one year of unrestricted course selection (Elective Curriculum).
MBA Program
HBS looks for candidates who exhibit leadership potential, capacity for intellectual growth, and the drive to make a difference in their communities. The school aims to attract students representing a wide range of interests, perspectives and experiences as reflected by its highly diverse student body. Each year, students representing more than seventy countries and a wide range of backgrounds - ranging from professional sports, medicine and military to consulting and investment banking - are selected at HBS.
Admission
To be considered for admission, a candidate must submit the following:
Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or GRE scores,
Responses to the application essay questions,Resume,Recommendations,Undergraduate academic transcript,TOEFL or IELTS score, if applicableNonrefundable U.S. $250 application fee (College seniors
pay a reduced fee of $100)There is no minimum work experience requiredA four-year undergraduate degree is required for
admission.
Campus
The HBS campus is located in Allston, across the Charles River from the main Harvard campus in Cambridge. Many of the buildings have red-brick exteriors, as do many buildings in Harvard Yard.
Baker Library, 2009
Academic HonoursThe top academic honor at HBS is the Baker Scholar designation (High Distinction), given to the top 5% of the graduating MBA class. In a typical year a Baker Scholar will have achieved "1s" in approximately 70–75% of his or her course credits. Students receiving honors (top 20%) in both their first and second years are awarded the MBA degree with Distinction.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Established : 1881Type : PrivateEndowment : $800 millionDean : Thomas RobertsonAcademic staff : 304Undergraduates : 2,306Postgraduates : 1,671Location : Philadelphia, PA, USAAlumni : 81,000Affiliations : University of PennsylvaniaWebsite : www.wharton.upenn.edu
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton is the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton.
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The school offers two paths, an MBA for full-time students and an MBA for executives.Students can elect to pursue double majors or individualized majors. During their first year, all students pursue a required core curriculum that covers traditional management disciplines—finance, marketing, statistics, and strategy—as well as the leadership, ethics, and communication skills needed at senior levels of management.Students pick electives in the second year.
Wharton MBA Program
Options for international study and experience include Wharton's Lauder Institute, the Global Immersion Program, Leadership Ventures, Global Consulting Practicum, and exchange programs with schools in 11 countries, including the alliance with the leading international business school, INSEAD.
International Study
University of Chicago, Booth
Established : 1898Type : PrivateEndowment : US $800 millionDean : Sunil KumarAcademic staff : 177Postgraduates : 3140Location : Chicago, IL, USAAlumni : 43,000 Affiliations : University of ChicagoWebsite : www.chicagobooth.edu
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is a graduate business school located in Chicago, Illinois, at the University of Chicago. Formerly known as the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Chicago Booth is the second oldest business school in the U.S., the first such school to offer an Executiv MBA program, and the first to initiate a Ph.D. program in Business.The school was renamed in 2008 following a $300 million endowment gift to the school by alumnus David G. Booth. The school has the third-largest endowment of any business school.
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The school's Executive MBA program is unique in that students may elect to spend the required residential periods on all three of the school's campuses worldwide (London, Chicago, Singapore), while also employing the cohort system. In Business Week Executive MBA Ranking 2009 the University of Chicago Booth School of Business landed in second place. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has begun a new program using Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube to reach prospective part-time M.B.A students.
MBA
Chicago Booth offers Full-time, Part-time (Evening and Weekend) and Executive MBA programs. The University is also a major center for educating future academics, with graduate programs offering the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in several fields.
Academics
Columbia Business School
Established : 1916
Type : Private
Endowment : $409 million
Dean : R. Glenn Hubbard
Academic staff : 136
Postgraduates : 1,433
Doctoral students : 100
Location : New York, NY, USA
Campus : Urban
Affiliations : Columbia University
Website : gsb.columbia.edu
Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students. It is one of six Ivy League business schools and its admission process is among the most selective of top business schools.
About
The Columbia MBA Program is designed to prepare its students for the challenges they will face as emerging leaders in a rapidly changing business world. The admission process is highly competitive with an admission rate of 15% in 2009.The student body is highly accomplished and diverse. Students in the class that entered in 2009 come from 61 countries and speak more than 50 languages.
Full Time MBA Program
Today, Columbia Business School is primarily housed in Uris Hall, a recently renovated 1960s structure at the center of Columbia's Morningside Heights campus. An auxiliary space, Warren Hall, is situated on Amsterdam Avenue and is shared with the law school. By 2015, the school will be moved to a new, more spacious facility at Columbia's planned new campus on 125th Street in Manhattanville.
Campus
Insead
Established : 1957Type : Private business schoolDean : Frank Brown Dipak C. JainAcademic staff : 144Postgraduates : 900+, mainly MBADoctoral students : 65+ PhDsLocation : Fontainebleau (near Paris, France), Singapore and DubaiCampus : Fontainebleau, SingaporeWebsite : Insead.edu
INSEAD is an international graduate business school and research institution. It has campuses in Europe (France), Asia (Singapore), and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi), as well as a research center in Israel. The school offers a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, a PhD in Management program, and several executive education programs (including an Executive MBA).
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The INSEAD MBA curriculum comprises a range of required core courses and electives. The core courses cover traditional management disciplines including finance, economics, organizational behaviour, accounting, ethics, marketing, statistics, operations management, international political analysis, supply chain management, leadership and corporate strategy.
MBA
INSEAD has three campuses. The original campus (Europe Campus) is located in Fontainebleau, near Paris, France. INSEAD's second campus (Asia Campus) is in the Buona Vista district of the city-state of Singapore. The third and newest campus (Middle East Campus) is located in Abu Dhabi, and currently serves only as a campus for open enrollment executive education programmes.
Campus
MIT: Sloan
Established :1914Type : Private business schoolDean : David SchmittleinEndowment : US$ 657 millionAcademic staff : 190Undergraduates : 263Postgraduates : 976Location : Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesCampus : UrbanAffiliations : MITWebsite : mitsloan.mit.edu
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school, and one of the five schools, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its mission is "To develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and to generate ideas that advance management practice."
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Its largest program is its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, which matriculates students from more than 60 countries every year and offers the widest range of electives of any business school in the United States. It is also ranked #1 in more academic areas than any other program. The school has over 20,000 alumni, who include many prominent business and political leaders in more than 90 countries.
MBA
Indian School of Business
Established : 1999Type : Private business schoolDean : Ajit RangnekarAcademic staff : 40 Permanent Faculity,100 Visiting FaculityPostgraduates : 567 (2010)Location : Hyderabad,Mohali, IndiaWebsite : ISB.edu
The Indian School of Business (ISB) is a graduate business school and research institution in India. It has campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali. It offers a Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) which is a full time Master of Business Administration level graduate programme in Management, a Fellow Program in Managment, as well as several executive education programs. The vision of the school is "is to be an internationally top-ranked, research-driven, independent management institution that grooms future leaders for India and the world."
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ISB's Hyderabad campus is located in Gachibowli.The campus has been designed in such a way that parts of it maintain the vegetation, rock formations, and natural habitat, while other parts of the campus have manicured lawns, boulevards, and gardens. A wide variety of flora and fauna including the national bird of India, the peacock, can be found within the campus. A virtual campus tour is available on the institution's homepage.
Hyderabad Campus
ISB's Mohali campus is spread across 70 acres in Knowledge City, Mohali. It is slated to start functioning from 2012.The Mohali Campus will house four institutes
Max India Institute of Healthcare Management
Bharti Institute of Public Policy
BML Munjal Hero Honda Institute of Manufacturing Excellence and Innovation
Punj Lloyd Institute of Physical Infrastructure Management
Mohali campus
The admission process is highly competitive and invites applications from students with good Graduate Management Admission Test scores and diverse professional experience. The shortlisted students are then interviewed by a panel of 2-3, mostly drawn from the ISB faculty and alumni.
Admission
