Program Basics

• • INSEAD MBA Programme
  • INSEAD
  • INSEAD
  • Boulevard de Constance
  • Fontainebleau, 77305
  • France
  • Program Web site: http://www.insead.edu/mba
  • Status: Private
  • Program e-mail address: mba.info@insead.edu
  • Graduate business school is accredited by:
    • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
    • Association of MBAs (AMBA)
    • EQUIS
    • European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 1,200
  • Full-Time MBA: 1,006
  • Executive MBA: 105
  • PhD Program: 69
• • Other graduate degree programs:
    • Master of Finance

PROGRAM COSTS

• Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

  • Resident: $71,718.00
  • Nonresident: $71,718.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $102,062.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $102,062.00

PROGRAM LENGTH

• • Full-time program (months): 10

ADMISSIONS

• Application Deadlines

  • Semester: Summer 2012
  • Deadline: Mar 21, 2012
  • Semester: Winter 2012
  • Deadline: Aug 16, 2012
• • Does the program have rolling admissions? No
  • Is proficiency in English required for admission? Yes
  • Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required? Yes

• Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

  • • IELTS
    • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 620

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  • GMAT Score: Important
  • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
  • Application Essays: Very Important
  • Interviews: Very Important
  • Recommendations: Very Important
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Important

APPLICANTS

• • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

APPLICANT POOL

• • Mean base salary forgone: $84,284.00
  • Median base salary forgone: $74,458.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Full-time students in newest entering class (2010-2011) that are:

  • Female: 33 %
  • International: 93 %
  • Married: 24 %

• Students from following regions:

  • Africa: 4 %
  • Asia: 32 %
  • Europe: 41 %
  • North America: 15 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 6 %
  • Oceania: 2 %
  • Dual citizenship: 18 %
• • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 65
  • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 62

• Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

  • From: 36
  • To: 99
• • Median age of entering class: 28
  • Mean age of entering class: 29

FINANCIAL AID

• • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school
  • Full-time MBAs who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 74 %
  • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 17 %
  • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $15,171.00
  • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $13,792.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
    • a combination of need and merit
    • some other criteria
    • academic merit
    • financial need
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Unique scholarship application
  • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $15,171.00
  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? Yes
  • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $70,339.00

GMAT

• • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 10th Percentile 640
  • 25th Percentile 670
  • 50th Percentile (median) 700
  • 75th Percentile 720
  • 90th Percentile 740
  • Average GMAT Score 692

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 10th Percentile 660
  • Average GMAT Score 704
  • 25th Percentile 680
  • 50th Percentile (median) 710
  • 75th Percentile 730
  • 90th Percentile 750

CLASS OFFERINGS

• • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 76
  • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 36
  • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 72

• Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2010:

  • The Future of Digital & Social Marketing
  • Technology Venturing Practicum
• • Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program? No

• The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:

  • • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • General Management
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Leadership
    • International Business

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 270

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 71
  • Non-Tenured: 71

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: N/A
  • Non-Tenured: N/A

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 3
  • Non-Tenured: 13

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: N/A
  • Non-Tenured: N/A

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: N/A
  • Non-Tenured: N/A

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 71
  • Non-Tenured: 65

STUDENT LIFE

• Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Consulting
    • Other
    • Finance
    • Nonprofit
    • VC/ Private Equity
    • Environmental
    • High Tech
    • Investment Banking
    • Media & Entertainment

• Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Partners/Family
    • Women in MBA
    • Volunteer
    • Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods used:

  • Case Study: 30 %
  • Experiential Learning: 10 %
  • Lectures: 30 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %

• Requirements for graduation:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Other
  • Basic knowledge of the 3rd language

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: The following improvements have enhanced the student’s experience: Prior to their studies a CRM system provides a better match of course offerings and individual needs; social media platforms and smartphone platforms allow students to start the MBA experience before arriving on campus as well as continue their networking after their studies. On campus, INSEAD has doubled the wide area network bandwidth and offers in the cloud email and file storage to students.
  • Amount spent: $10,000,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 20,012
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 60
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 10
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 14 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,864.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $145.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business School endowment: $195,890,000.00
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: https://alumni.insead.edu
  • Does the B-SCHOOL offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

CAREER SERVICES

• • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 80 %
  • Graduates not seeking employment: 16 %
  • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 4 %

• Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

  • Destination: New York - Media trek
  • Month: March
  • Amount Paid By School: NA
  • Destination: Singapore - Healthcare trek
  • Month: April
  • Amount Paid By School: NA
  • Destination: Singapore - C&LG trek
  • Month: May
  • Amount Paid By School: NA
  • Destination: London - IPEC trek
  • Month: September
  • Amount Paid By School: NA
  • Destination: Belgium - Energy trek
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: NA

• Primary source of job offer:

  • School-facilitated activities: 56 %
  • Graduate-facilitated activities: 44 %
  • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

• Job Offers for 2011 graduates

  • Received first job offer by graduation: 80 %
  • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 13 %
  • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 3 %
  • Did not report having received a job offer: 4 %
  • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 50 %
  • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 32 %
  • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 8 %
  • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 10 %

• Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

  • McKinsey & Company 127
  • The Boston Consulting Group 60
  • Bain & Company 48
  • Booz & Company 40
  • Roland Berger Strategy Consultants 15
  • A.T. Kearney 14
  • Google 13
  • Johnson & Johnson 10
  • L.E.K. Consulting 9
  • Standard Chartered Bank 9
  • Accenture 8
  • Barclays capital 8
  • LVMH 8
  • Rocket Internet 8
  • Eli Lilly 7
• • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 59 %

• Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

  • Mean base salary: $122,900.00
  • Median base salary: $119,500.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $26,600.00
  • Median signing bonus: $21,700.00

• Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 47 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 15 %
  • General Management: 20 %
  • Human Resources: 1 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 9 %
  • Management Information Systems: 1 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 2 %
  • Other: 5 %

• Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Government: 1 %
  • Consulting: 44 %
  • Consumer Products: 11 %
  • Financial Services: 19 %
  • Manufacturing: 3 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
  • Non-Profit: 2 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Technology: 5 %
  • Other: 6 %

• Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

  • Africa: 3 %
  • Asia: 28 %
  • Europe: 53 %
  • North America: 8 %
  • Oceania: 2 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 6 %

• Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

  • Bank of America Merill Lynch 7
  • Barclays Capital 7
  • Bain & Company 6
  • McKinsey & Company 6
  • The Boston Consulting Group 5
  • Booz & Company 5
  • Deutsche Bank 4
  • British Telecom 4
  • Centrica 4
  • Nomura 3
  • Google 3
  • Philips 3
  • HSBC 3
  • Syngenta 3
  • Johnson & Johnson 3
• • Internships awarded that are paid: 87 %

• Weekly internship compensation:

  • Mean: $1,441.00
  • Median: $1,477.00
• • Average internship length in weeks: 7

• • -The international culture is amazing. As INSEAD is a one year MBA, everything is more intense, such as work, experience and relationships. Without a doubt the best year of my life.
    
    -The educational value is good, though not rocket science, but the value of having a year out to meet so many new people and be exposed to so many new ideas is crucial.
    
    -INSEAD has a very collaborative atmosphere. Non-disclosure of grades has a very disarming effect. Students are motivated enough to learn by the high tuition fee, so there is no need to introduce competitive academic pressure and a focus on grades. It also pushes students to take courses on topics they are unfamiliar with, or don't necessarily cater to their strengths.
    
    -This is a one-year program. For someone without prior exposure to business administration matters or education, it is very frustrating to realize that you cannot go in depth in any of the taught subjects (everything happens very/too fast).
    
    -France is a difficult place to be for South Africans who cant speak French!
    
    -INSEAD is not for people looking for drastic switches, but I would definitely recommend it for folks seeking a change in geography.
    
    -INSEAD is definitely one of the best schools for those who want to become a management consultant or to pursue a general management career, but the school is not for a finance guy.
    
    -The campus exchange program (INSEAD has campuses in France and Singapore) is an exhilarating and challenging experience but gives you a true global experience, if meeting classmates from every nationality is not enough!
    
    -INSEAD is a unique experience that is well suited for leaders who have an international motivation and the mental flexibility needed to succeed in a ten month program.
    
    -INSEAD is definitely a "different type of animal".
    
    -The program is short, but what is lost through this is more than made up for by the quality of the experience while there.
    
    -INSEAD is in a class of its own. No business school can prepare you similarly to become a successful global business manager. Its world class faculty, three campuses, and diverse international student body (80 countries represented) has no match.
    
    -The strength of INSEAD relies not only on the education but especially in the great bond existing between the current students and alumni. Anytime I needed some help, I have always found someone ready to help me within one day or less.