FULL-TIME MBA Profiles Publish Date 11/13/08

London Business School

Getting In

PROGRAM BASICS

Full-time MBA Programme

London Business School
Regent's Park
London , United Kingdom

Program Web site:

http://www.london.edu

Status:

Public Institution

Program e-mail address:

mbainfo@london.edu

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Association of MBAs (AMBA)

European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)

Years in which the following programs were founded:

Full-time MBA: 1965
Executive MBA: 1982
Executive Education (non-degree): 1967
PhD program: 1969

PROGRAM COSTS

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

Resident : $ 78,315
Nonresident : $ 78,315
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $ 35,554
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $ 35,554

PROGRAM LENGTH

Full-time program (months):

ENROLLMENT

Graduate business school enrollment

Total graduate business school: 1648
Full-time MBA: 635
Executive MBA: 600

PhD program: 67
MS: 56
Other: 290

Graduate degree programs:

Master of Finance

Other graduate degree programs:

Sloan Fellowship MSc Masters in Management (from 2009)

ADMISSIONS

Application Deadlines

14 October 2008 6 January 2009 3 March 2009 30 April 2009

Does the program have rolling admissions?

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?

TOEFL Internet Based Test

Other: 0

Relative importance: Application Elements

GMAT Score:

Important

Resume/Work Experience:

Very Important

Application Essays:

Very Important

Interviews:

Very Important

Recommendations:

Important

Undergraduate Transcripts:

Important

APPLICANTS

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:

2365

Applicant interviews are:

By invitation only

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

44 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

APPLICANT POOL

International applications received:

96 %

Applications from women received:

22 %

CLASS PROFILE

Full-time students in newest entering class (2008-2009) that are:

Female: 25 %
International: 91 %

Ethnicity/US Students in Program

Students from following regions:

Africa : 3 %
Asia: 22 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 4 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 13 %
Middle East: 5 %
North America: 20 %
Oceania : 3 %
Western Europe: 30 %
Percentage of students with dual citizenship: 13 %

Entering North American citizens by region:

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:

Median months of work experience of newest entering class:

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

From: 36
To: 96

Median age of entering class:

Mean age of entering class:

FINANCIAL AID

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through:

Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

financial need

academic merit

a combination of need and merit

some other criteria

Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:

How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?

Unique scholarship application

Mean scholarships awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year:

$ 24,606

Percentage of second-year students receiving the same or more amount of money in their second year of study:

N/A %

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?

GMAT

Applicants required to take the GMAT?

Yes

Mean : 694
Median: 700

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:

From: 640
To: 750

Academics & Lifestyle

CLASS OFFERINGS

Average students in a full-time MBA core class:

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class:

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2008:

1 Sustainability-Implications of Environmental &
Demographic Change 2 Internet Marketing
3 Managing & Marketing Innovation
4 The Art & Science of Modelling for Consulting

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:

2007

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Entrepreneurship

Finance

International Business

Manufacturing and Technology Management

Marketing

Strategy

Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

141

Full-time faculty

Tenured: 50
Non-Tenured: 47

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty

Tenured: 13
Non-Tenured: 31

Women on Faculty

Tenured: 6
Non-Tenured: 22

Minority Faculty

International Faculty

Tenured: 37
Non-Tenured: 43

Faculty with PhDs

Tenured: 50
Non-Tenured: 46

STUDENT LIFE

Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Biotech/Health care

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

Entrepreneurship

Finance

High Tech

Media & Entertainment

VC/ Private Equity

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual

Partners/Family

Volunteer

Wine

Women in MBA

Other

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods used

Case study: 33 %
Distance Learning: 5 %
Experiential Learning: 10 %
Lecture: 33 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Project: 14 %

Requirements for graduation:

Students are required to complete international experience

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students are required to be fluent in more than one language by graduation

Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties

TECHNOLOGY

Is there a wireless network in main B-school buildings?

Yes

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

We have re-architected our hugely successful Portal. The Portal facilitates private networking for our entire alumni, student, faculty, and staff community. It also gives privileged and secure access to over 150 providers of financial information, and business research that are not available on the web. Through the Portal our students also gain access to their Virtual Learning Environment and our large Media Library of over 1000 videos and podcasts. High speed internet access and WLAN cover the campus.

Amount spent:

$ 6.1m

Alumni Affairs & Careers

ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

9,013

Active MBA alumni clubs

Countries in which MBA clubs exist

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

19 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 3,518

Median gift from MBA alumni

$ 430

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

Business School Endowment

$ 18,042,058

Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?

Yes

Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

University alumni networking site:

Password protected area of http://www.london.edu

Does the B-School have an alumni networking site:

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

Password protected area of http://www.london.edu

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: N/A %
Graduates not seeking employment: N/A %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: N/A %

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

Primary Source of Job Offer

Job Offers for 2008 graduates:

Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:

Mean and median base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

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

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Top Companies - Internships:

Mean : N/A Median: N/A

SCHOOL COMMENTS

School Comments:

Please note that the London Business School MBA is 15 to 21 months in duration. This gives students the flexibility and choice to tailor their learning as they progress through the London Business School MBA.

Graduate Comments

The professional advancement is huge, and the experience of London Business School is outstanding both inside and outside the classroom. This is a complete life-changing period, a definitive right decision. -- Marketing

Excellent Finance faculty and a strong reputation amongst banking and finance companies. -- Finance

Having done an exchange at another prestigious school and having compared strengths and weaknesses I feel I would recommend LBS to a colleague. -- Finance

It's an ideal school for international students. The school community is engaging and although it is a top ranked school, it doesn't stink of arrogance. -- Finance

Academically rigorous, internationally diverse, excellent location, some very good faculty. Provides access to a host of opportunities that one may not have considered before. -- Investment Banking

Enormous opportunities. -- Finance

The MBA program has had a very positive impact on most of our lives. The LBS MBA truly stands out in its diversity - I would have never been exposed to so many different views and cultures if I hadn't attended LBS. In a globalizing world I think this is an invaluable experience. -- Consulting

Completing my MBA at London Business School not only strengthened my business knowledge and analytical skills, it also greatly expanded my network. What makes London Business School so unique is its international class... For this reason, I would recommend it above any other U.S. or international business school. -- Human Resources

I enjoyed the school, the city and the events we had with different companies. -- Finance

I had a chance to go on exchange to a top U.S. school and found the student body not to be as diverse in their personal and professional backgrounds. -- Venture Capital/Private Equity

I've found that the benefits of a truly international class room (over 90% international students) made my MBA experience that much more enjoyable and rewarding. -- Finance

I felt that I was the part of the school and the school depended on me as much as I depended on school. LBS for me was like "Cheers." -- Finance

This experience although very demanding has more than exceeded my expectations although not in the areas that I thought when going in. I lost my wife during the process but I gained an international network of unprecedented scope and a some very close friends. So all in all a life changing experience that I wouldn't have been without! -- Investment Banking

Attending to London Business School gave to me a whole new meaning to the word "International." The community is truly international, unlike the U.S. school I went on exchange where the proportion of U.S./Non-U.S. Students was 70/30 and most of the Non-U.S. students had lived or studied in the U.S. before. -- Investment Banking

London Business School changed my life in so many ways. It is the only school I found that is TRULY global. So many of my classmates came directly in from countries around the world. My class of 307 people came from something like 48 countries and spoke 53 different languages. Their personal and professional knowledge was what made the MBA experience for me, and London Business School created an incredible environment to bring this out and nurture it. I can't say enough about how special this institution is and how strongly an example it sets for what a business school needs to be in today's globally competitive world. -- Operations

Taking the MBA was one of the best decisions of my life. London Business School was already my first option and it exceeded my expectations in terms of learning, networking and career opportunities. -- Operations

Hindsight being 20-20, I attended the best program for me given my international ambitions - both personally and professionally. -- Investment Banking

The international experience and diversity of our class is the most valuable thing I got out of my MBA. I had the opportunity to study in Hong Kong and France, in addition to the U.K. -- Consulting

I loved the diversity (understood in terms of nationalities, backgrounds, international work experience, etc.) of London Business School. This, and having two years to reflect on my future career path, were the main reasons I chose that school. I also liked the fact of being so close to one of the world's top financial and business centers. It makes it so much easier to have seminars, presentations, and debates on campus with top executives and financiers. That is a definitive competitive advantage for the school. -- Consulting

The small size of the London Business School student body provided an opportunity for a more tailored MBA experience. The program office really tried hard to help support us in any way they can and get to know many of us by name. Fellow students have a great deal of experience and truly international in their perspective. I learned a great deal not only about business but also about global issues during my time at London Business School. My MBA accomplished exactly what I'd hoped for and despite the high cost, I would choose it again with no hesitations. -- Finance