CONTENTS
Introduction 1
MBAs and their Association 1
The Association of MBAs and
quality control 1
Membership services 2
Other membership services 3
Independent MBA student of
the year award 5
Business schools in the new
millennium 5
The scope of the handbook 6
Risk factors 7
Questions the Association of
MBAs is most often asked and the answers 8
Part: GUIDE TO MBAs
1 Thinking it over 13
Students: characteristics and
profiles 14
Student expectations and
motivation 16
Employer expectations - and
fears 18
Getting it together 20
Before you go any further: a
checklist 21
2 How the MBA is changing 22
The impact of e-commerce 22
The alumni focus 24 It's tougher to get in 24 On-line applications 25 Talent wars 25
Corporate and virtual
universities 26 Specialist MBAs 27 Accreditation 27 Globalisation 27
Re-engineering career
management 28
Choosing the options 30
The full-time MBA; two-year
programmes 30
The full-time MBA: one-year
programmes 31
Part-time courses 33
Open or distance learning
MBAs 37
Transferability 40
Exemptions 41
Home or abroad? 41
4 Choosing a school 44
The crunch questions 46 The
10 key questions 57
5 Getting in 58
Making your application 58
Application forms 59
References 61
The Graduate Management
Admissions Test (GMAT)
Taking the GMAT 63
GMAT crammers - a checklist
66
Other admission criteria 66
6 Financing your MBA 67
The joys (and grief's) of
being sponsored 67
Financing your own studies 68
Scholarships, awards, grants
and bursaries 72
Awards/funding for MBA study
73
Applying for a scholarship 74
7 Surfing the learning curve
77
Culture shocks 78
A typical part-time
residential weekend programme
Learning to study 80
Exams and assessments 80
The management project 80
The experience of overseas
students 81
A week in the life of a
full-time MBA student 84
8 Where does it all get you?
86
The MBA and your career 86
A graduate perspective 89
The anti-climax effect 92
Impact on salary 92
Changing places 93
The charms of consultnacy
dot.coms 95
The forty somethings 97
Doing your doctorate 97
Careers offices 98
Follow your passion 98
9 Business schools and
executive education 100
Corporate universities 100
Tailored vs open programmes
103
Selecting providers 104
10 School profiles 105
Ashridge; Taking partners for
the MBA 105
Aston Business School's
rejuvenated MBA 107
University of Bath School of
Management:The full-time MBA 109
City University Business
School: E-business and the MBA 112 Durham University Business School: The distance
learning
MBA 114
Edinburgh University
Management School's MBA in international business 116
ESCP-EAP: The full-time MBA
119
Kingston Business School: The
part-time MBA 121
Macquarie Graduate School of
Management 123
Manchester Business School:
The full-time MBA 125
NIMBAS: Going Dutch on the
MBA 128
The Open University Business
School: The distance learning MBA 130
Said Business School: The
Business School of the University of Oxford 133
THESEUS International
Management Institute 136
Warwick Business School: The
full-time MBA 138
Part 2: SCHOOL DIRECTORY
Accreditation of MBA
programmes 142
Criteria for the
accreditation of MBA programmes 143
United Kingdom 147
Europe 295
North America 337
Australia 385
South Africa 393
Far East 399
Other Business Schools 411
Part 3: APPENDICES
Useful contacts 427
MBAs by distance and open
learning 430
Association of MBAs
accredited programmes 431
Research assessment: business
and management studies 434
Table of specialist MBAs 440
Starting dates for full- and
part-time MBA programmes 442
Starting dates for distance
and open learning MBA programmes 445
Sample questions
representative of the GMAT 446 Reading list 456 MBA-related URLS 457 Using the StudyLink
MBA CD 459
Index of Schools 461