EXECUTIVE MBA Profiles Publish Date 11/05/09

INSEAD

Getting In

PROGRAM BASICS

INSEAD GLOBAL EXECUTIVE MBA

INSEAD

Europe Campus: Boulevard de Constance, 77300 Fontainebleau, France
Asia Campus: 1 Ayer Rajah Avenue, Singapore 138676

Status:

Private Institution

Length of program (months):

Classes meet:

Occasional week-long sessions

8 modules of 1 or 2 weeks each (12 weeks in total)

Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

Resident: $ 126,697
Non Resident: $ 126,697

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Association of MBAs (AMBA)

European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)

EQUIS

SCHOOL BASICS

Graduate business school enrollment:

Total: 1,007
Full-Time MBA: 976
Executive MBA: 66
PhD Program: 65

Other graduate degree programs:

N/A

ADMISSIONS

Rolling admissions?

Yes

GMAT Required?

Yes

If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment?

N/A

Average GMAT:

645

Middle 80% range of GMAT scores:

N/A

Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers?

Yes

Minimum TOEFL required:

620

Application fee:

$ 282

Applicant interviews are:

Required

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

CLASS PROFILE

EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

Female: 15 %
International: 77 %

Entering students are from the following regions:

Africa : 3 %
Asia: 17 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 2 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 %
Middle East: 3 %
North America: 8 %
Oceania : 1 %
Western Europe: 63 %

Entering North American citizens are from the following regions:

N/A

U.S. students in newest entering class who are:

N/A

Average months of work experience:

120

Middle 80% range work experience, months:

From: 82
To: 204

Average age:

Middle 80% age range:

From: 34
To: 46

Work background:

Have advanced degrees: 98 %

EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus:

5 %

Middle 80% base salary range:

N/A

Students work in these functional categories:

N/A

Students work in these industries:

Consulting: 8 %
Consumer Products: 6 %
Financial Services: 11 %
Manufacturing: 25 %
Media/Entertainment: 1 %
Petroleum/Energy: 11 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 8 %
Technology: 18 %
Other: 12 %

FINANCIAL AID

EMBAs receiving financial aid through school:

15 %

Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months:

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality?

Academics & Lifestyle

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

235

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 72
Non-Tenured: 73

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

N/A

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 4
Non-Tenured: 18

Minority Faculty:

N/A

International Faculty:

Tenured: 61
Non-Tenured: 69

Faculty with PhDs:

Tenured: 72
Non-Tenured: 68

STUDENT LIFE

Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project?

Yes

Description:

Modules take place on both INSEAD's campuses (France and Singapore) and at the Centre in Abu Dhabi

Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants?

Yes

Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants?

Yes

Description:

on campus residences/hotels

Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym?

Yes

How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles)

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods:

Case Study: 33 %
Distance Learning: 1 %
Experiential Learning: 8 %
Lectures: 33 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Projects: 20 %

Faculty also teaching in full-time program:

49 %

Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty:

90 %

Average class size, core EMBA class:

Average class size, EMBA electives:

Elective courses:

Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

Hours per week in class: 50
Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 15

Last revision of core EMBA curriculum:

2006

Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium?

Description:

N/A

Graduation Requirements:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/letter grade average

Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades

Present final, company-specific project results to relevant parties

Additional EMBA Programs:
EMBA programs run in another country:

Tsinghua-INSEAD dual degree Executive MBA programme China and Singapore
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY BEIJING CHINA

Domestic partnerships or in-house EMBA programs:

N/A

TECHNOLOGY

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

N/A

Alumni Affairs & Careers

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

18,658

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

14 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 1,991

Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year?

Business school endowment

$ 1,300,000

Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?

Yes

Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

http://www.insead.edu/alumni

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Does the school offer EMBA students access to the career services office?

Yes

Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs?

What is the school's policy concerning recruiters targeting EMBA students for full-time jobs?

If the participant is less than 50% company sponsored(payment of tuition fees), then s/he has full access to on-campus recruitment

SCHOOL COMMENTS

Additional school comments:

N/A

Graduate Comments

The program delivered exactly what I was looking for. I did not see that other top 10 programs had the same diversity and the same commitment to leadership and personal development. That swung it for me.

Great international environment; excellent teaching; campuses in France, Singapore plus a week in Abu Dhabi; what else can you ask for?

I learned a lot from both the course material and the people involved with the program. The international make-up of the students and professors provided invaluable interaction and understanding of diverse perspectives. The global INSEAD alumni network is also an important asset for any executive conducting international business.

INSEAD was careful to select the top professors for the EMBA program. They are all passionate about their respective fields, yet they can clearly communicate the basics of the subject if need be. Perhaps the only challenge was understanding the different accents as a number of our professors were not native English speakers; however, this also adds to our skill set as we compete in the global environment.

I am located in Europe and in this region I do not see a better, more reputable, school than INSEAD. There were many other reasons such as the way it is structured, with modules of 1-2 weeks set apart by about 1 1/2 is really much better than every other weekend, like most executive programs. With such arrangement, INSEAD is able to attract a very geographically diverse group, as opposed to mostly locals.

The EMBA at INSEAD completely changed my professional life. I was a on a fast-paced career path until I decided to have children. For a couple of years I was out of the business world. The INSEAD program and diploma was an amazing way to quickly get connected to the business world and go back to a high-level professional life. For women in my situation, the INSEAD EMBA is then a life-changing opportunity.

The courses were extremely thought through and well adapted to the short 14-month EMBA format. Faculty was excellent; the only weakness was the time factor that did not always allow for the group to capitalize extensively on its participants' professional and personal experience.

Careers guidance and involvement of new employers could be made better. I would like to have had more companies better understand the EMBA program.

Professors had excellent teaching skills and ability to formalize complex issues. Well prepared teaching material that always included very up to date details. All instructors engaged the participants to discussions which brought all the professional experience present in the classroom as part of the teaching. Only minus was bad marketing course.

There was no discussion of alignment of interest between shareholders, boards and management. To my knowledge business schools don't go deep enough in this area. There was discussion of corporate governance, but more relating to organizational behavior, politics, structure, etc., not the analysis of the alignment of shareholder interests, boards and executives.

I got what I expected from INSEAD. My only concern would be to have more US / UK participants and less French related participants.

Level of INSEAD instructors is generally high. Within in INSEAD it is seen as a privilege to be allowed to teach the EMBA so the EMBA gets the best of the best. The teaching method at EMBA level mainly revolved around drawing on the experience of the class, so sessions became learning discussions more than traditional lecturing. Very insightful. This is also due to the high caliber of the students which is the result of careful selection. Not only are the faculty leaders in their field, they also possess the talent and passion to teach and it shows.

We identified early in the process that there was a lot to learn from the fellow students themselves, and that we could teach each other on some specialized topics related to industries, cultures. We pushed a lot about this, and although EMBA administration was surprised by this, and somewhere reluctant in the beginning, they helped us a lot after this.

A new dean has just been appointed, and this new dean is in my point of view the best professor I had during the program. He is also a very nice fellow, and very supportive for all of us. So, the thing that could be improved has been done!!