How to prepare admissions to top MBA programs and schools
Being admitted to one of the best MBA schools out there may not always be an easy task. If you lack the real work experience or the tests scores, or if you simply belong to the “wrong” gender, race, social strata, country, or economic sector chances are you may have to work twice as hard to get admitted to the MBA program of your liking. This process could be even harder if you are a non-business undergraduate who wants to use an MBA in order to re-orientate his or her career. So what to do to fill the gap and enhance your chances of being accepted?
If this is the case with you, we will try to point you in the right direction as to which kind of coursework and preparation you may want to pursue before applying for a graduate MBA college program, and at this time we will breifly look at some excellent pre-MBA intensive preparation programs and schools.
Doing an Intensive pre-MBA Accelerated Course
Some of the best Business Accelarator programs can turn you into a suitable candidate for top MBA courses. There are hundreds of testimonies of science and arts undergraduates being admitted after pursuing top accelerated preparation programs for MBA applicants-to-be.
These programs are designed to help you get into the graduate business school of your choice. Instructors are trained to help you understand busines thinking and to make it relevant to you as part of your career objectives. After finishing any of these course, you will most probably be ready to pursue and MBA in any of the specialties offered nowadays, and more importantly, you will find out soon enough if an MBA really is the right step forward in your case, before spending more time and resources.
Our recommended pre-MBA courses and schools:
- UC Berkeley Extension
- Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education
- Vanderbilt University’s Business Accelerator
Says Keith Gatto, director of UC Berkeley Extension programs, “…this program helps…(omission) students kind of garnish their credential and make sure that they get into the graduate school of their choice.”
At the Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education students and staff alike agree that preparation courses at Columbia are very much like what you would face in your first year at any top ranked MBA or EMBA programme.
These pre-MBA preparation courses also aim at enhancing your undergraduate non business skills in relation to the real business world. In other words, inspite of your not having a heavy business background (or none at all), they will teach you how to transfer some of the non business skills you already have to creating real management solutions. For instance, problem solving, critical thinking, and psycological and emotional intelligence abilities, to mention only a few, can be turned into highly regarded managerial and business skills.
Programs like these will also boost your confidence when working in an environment that, to the non-initiated, may feel threatening and hostile.
MBA preparation programs will teach you the essencial of the business environement through courses such as initiation to management thinking or introduction to statistics which are very necessary for any MBA program. Then you move onto more complex courses like:
-organizational management,
-finance,
-macro economics,
-essentials of marketing,
-human resource management, and
-IT management
…to name a few.
So with a little help from some intensive and accreditted pre-business school preparation a Bio Engineer, a Psycologist, or an Architech can actually learn to think differently and more business like, and add more value to the overall quality of their application and to the MBA alumni itself than some candidates with 100% business backgrounds.
Says Gatto again “As a rule of thumb, if you’re thinking about going on for a higher education and a graduate degree I would say take a course or two and see if you really kind of gel with the academics and this is something that you really want.”
