Thomas Graf - The MIM - Master in Management: Entry requirements

The MIM
Master in Management:
Entry requirements

Thomas Graf

Description

How do you gain admission to a Master in Management (MIM) program? This eBook summarizes a survey of 54 international business schools on how they select their MIM students. How important are internships or extracurricular activities? How can someone offset a weaker grade obtained in undergraduate studies? How are applications and interviews weighted? How should students prepare for an interview? What is the minimum GMAT or GRE score expected? This eBook is a must-read for students who want to prepare properly for an application and avoid unpleasant surprises. The first part summarizes a survey conducted among 54 business schools from 21 countries. The second part publishes each schools individual answers. Readers, hence, get both a general overview of admissions criteria for Masters in Management as well as the individual school profiles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Masters in Management (MIM) are a rising trend. These pre-experience programs allow graduates with no or only little work experience to obtain general management knowledge before they kick-off their career. Business schools are seeing a growing demand for MIM programs worldwide and broadening their educational portfolios accordingly (source: Global MIM Survey ).

One of the key questions from students, however, is: How do I get in? This eBook summarizes a survey on MIM admissions criteria, conducted from December 2014 to January 2015 among 54 business schools from 21 countries.

The first part provides an overview of the survey results across all schools. This gives the reader an impression of what the majority or the average of schools expects from their MIM candidates.

The second part publishes the answers provided by each school via our online questionnaire. This gives the reader insights into an individual school admissions profile to better understand what a specific school expects.

With the results of this survey, future MIM students should be better able to prepare properly for their admissions process and assess their chances of getting accepted in advance.

Thomas Graf

Founder of the MIM Compass, MBA Compass, and DBA Compass

August 2015

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS

54 business schools from 21 countries participated in the MIM Admissions Survey, conducted from December 2014 to January 2015. In the following overview, we listed schools more than once if they have campuses in several countries.

Australia

MGSM Macquarie Graduate School of Management

S P Jain School of Global Management

Austria

Alpen-Adria Universitt Klagenfurt

Johannes Kepler University

Belgium

Antwerp Management School

Canada

University of Lethbridge

University of Manitoba, Asper School of Business

University of Windsor

Czech Republic

University of Economics, Prague

France

Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management IAE

Audencia Nantes School of Management

CNAM Institute of Management

EDHEC Business School

ESCP Europe Business School

ESSEC Business School

HEC PARIS School of Management

IAE Bordeaux University School of Management

ICN Business School Nancy-Metz

Germany

Cologne Business School

ESCP Europe Business School

ESMT

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

HFU Business School University Furtwangen

Kuehne Logistics University

Munich Business School

Philipps- Universitt Marburg

University of Cologne, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management

India

S P Jain School of Global Management

Ireland

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Italy

Bocconi University

ESCP Europe Business School

MIP Politecnico di Milano

Universit di Bologna

University of Trento, Italy

Poland

Warsaw School of Economics

Portugal

Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics

Russia

SPbU, Graduate School of Management

Singapore

S P Jain School of Global Management

Spain

Deusto Business School - University of Deusto

EADA Business School Barcelona

ESADE

ESCP Europe Business School

IE Business School

Sweden

Stockholm School of Economics

Switzerland

HEC Lausanne

Universit della Svizzera italiana

The Netherlands

Fontys University of Applied Sciences

Nyenrode Business Universiteit

UAE

S P Jain School of Global Management

United Kingdom

Brunel University

Cranfield School of Management

Durham University Business School

ESCP Europe Business School

London Business School

London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Management

Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

University of Bradford

USA

Saunders College of Business at RIT

METHODOLOGY

As a first step, we contacted all business schools worldwide that offer pre-experience Masters in Management (MIM). A program qualified for this survey if it fulfilled four criteria:

1. It needed to be a postgraduate academic program.

2. It needed to teach general management.

3. It needed to be open to recent graduates.

4. It needed to use English as teaching language.

Overall, we contacted 280 business schools, identified through the platform www.mim-compass.com . We received responses from 54 institutions that reported data on 54 MIM programs. These schools have campuses in 21 countries, spread over Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. This survey, hence, received a response rate 19.6 percent.

Each school received information on the survey, the name of the specific program we wanted information about, and a link to our online questionnaire. The questionnaire included the following main questions:

1. How important are the following criteria when someone applies for your Master?

• Academic excellence (grades obtained in the undergraduate studies)
• Reputation of the applicants prior university
• Analytical test scores (e.g., GMAT or GRE)
• Practical experience (e.g., internships or entrepreneurial experience)
• Extracurricular activities (e.g., cultural, social or political commitment)
• Essays (submitted with the application)

2. Imagine that a Master applicant has a slightly lower grade in his/her previous studies than you expect. How can he/she offset this?

• The applicant cannot offset this as we have strict academic expectations.
• With an above average GMAT or GRE score
• With practical experience (e.g., internships or entrepreneurial experience)
• Extracurricular activities (e.g., cultural, social or political commitment)
• Other (include comments)

3. How do you weight the application and the interview for your final decision? Distribute 100% between these two:

• Application (0100%)
• Interview (0100% 0%) means that no interview is conducted

4. Do you require the GMAT or GRE for your Master?

• We require the GMAT only.
• We require either the GMAT or the GRE.
• We require the GMAT or GRE but accept our own on-campus test as alternative.
• We require neither the GMAT nor the GRE.