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Scott Edinburgh
- Feb 7, 2019
- 3 min
A Look At The 2019 Financial Times MBA Rankings
The Financial Times recently released its 2019 Global MBA Rankings and once again Stanford Graduate School of Business secured the #1 position. Harvard Business School earned the #2 spot, up considerably from its #5 place in 2018. INSEAD was pushed to #3 while Wharton slipped to #4. New to the top 5 this year was Shanghai based China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), up considerably from #8 in 2018 and #11 in 2017. The CEIBS EMBA program was also ranked #5 in the
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Scott Edinburgh
- Oct 17, 2018
- 4 min
Who Should Consider Non-Traditional MBA Options?
Getting an MBA does not necessarily require taking two years off from work. While for many the traditional 2-year program might be the best bet, there are an increasing number of alternative options you can consider based on your personal circumstances and goals. All programs teach the same general curriculum, often by some of the same faculty. However, full-time MBA programs tend to have more students who are looking for a career change and are interested in a more intense p
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Scott Edinburgh
- Jun 15, 2018
- 2 min
Personal MBA Coach’s Takeaways from 2018 AIGAC MBA Applicant Survey
This is a very exciting time of year for me, for Personal MBA Coach, and for the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC). This week, as the chair of the survey committee, I presented the results of our comprehensive 2018 survey to admissions directors of 25+ top MBA programs including HBS, Stanford, Booth, Kellogg, Wharton, Ross, Yale, and others at our annual conference. A special thank you to Kellogg, Chicago Booth, Michigan Ross, McCombs, and R
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Scott Edinburgh
- Jun 28, 2017
- 4 min
Highlights from the 2017 AIGAC Conference with Admissions Directors
Personal MBA Coach just came back from a great week at the annual Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) conference in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Los Angeles. Thank you to Berkeley Haas, Wharton San Francisco, Stanford Graduate School of Business and UCLA Anderson for generously hosting AIGAC. The highlight of the conference was a presentation of learnings from AIGAC's annual survey, this year examining how Millennials approach the MBA admissio
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