Judge Business School Q&A - ChaseDream

I am current MBA student of Judge Business School, Cambridge University. If anyone has interest in Judge, or has any questions, please feel free to ask. I will try my best to help you all.

Recently two new rankings of the Cambridge MBA have been published. The Economist Intelligence Unit
has announced its 2006 global full-time MBA ranking. The Cambridge MBA is ranked 1st in the UK, 3rd in Europe and 11th in the world.

The Economist Intelligence Unit comments on the excellent performance of Judge
Business
School as follows: ‘Having begun in 1990, the University of Cambridge's MBA programme might be considered something of an upstart. But it seems only a matter of time before it is routinely mentioned alongside the world's best.’

BusinessWeek
has also announced its 2006 MBA Rankings. The Cambridge MBA has been ranked 2nd in the UK and 6th in Europe.

These MBA rankings follow on the heels of a global ranking of universities published by the Times Higher Educational Supplement,
which placed the University of Cambridge 2nd in the world. The university rankings are based on a survey of 3,703 academics worldwide. They were also asked to nominate up to 30 institutions they regarded as the best at research.

Dr Matthias Holweg, University of Cambridge Senior Lecturer in Operations Management was invited to give a keynote on “The Value Chain and Innovation” at the “International Conference on Large and Small Business Cooperation” in Seoul, October 18. The event was hosted by the Federation of Korean Industries and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.

On Monday 23rd October Pierre Noël, an energy policy specialist at Judge Business School participated in a conference organised by the Atlantic Council of the United States on EU-US cooperation in energy security.

On Friday 27th October he gave a talk at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, on the oil market, energy security, and

foreign policy. The presentation was entitled: "Setting America Free -- From Dubious Energy Security Thinking".

Dr Allègre Hadida, University of Cambridge Lecturer in Strategy will be attending the annual Strategic Management Society Conference in Vienna, Austria from October 29 to November 2. She will be chairing a session "Allocating ownership and control rights to organizational stakeholders” and presenting a paper at the conference.

Dr Shai Vyakarnam,
Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) will present the CfEL paper; ‘Becoming a Global Entrepreneur: It Takes Networks, Passion and Experience’ on 29th ISBE Conference, 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2006 in Cardiff-Caerdydd, UK.

Seminar on Lacan and Organization Studies will be held at Judge
Business
School on 6th of November.

Dr Johan Runde, Reader in Economics at Judge
Business
School will speak at “Judge

” seminar on 7^th of November. The title of his talk is “Evaluating Causal Explanations in Samples of One”.

Dr William J. Nuttall,
            University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy at Judge
                Business
                School will participate at the Energy Security Initiative Event initiated by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) at the Moller Centre, Churchill
                    College on 14^th of November.

The Association of Business Schools’
                website published an article "Judge Business School and India School of Business Agree to Foster Technology Entrepreneurship". The programme will enable selected students from the Indian
                School of Business to visit Cambridge and enrol as full-time MBA students for one academic semester, whilst the selected students from Judge
                Business
                School will enrol at Hyderabad for a similar appropriate period.

Thanks for the information. Do you have any idea about the lowest GMAT score in this year in your class?

Cambridge那邊還好嗎? 想必也是每天水深火熱的讀書+作報告+career fair人生吧加油!

I have the same concern about the GMAT score.
Besides, does Judge has any favor on candidates' working years or backgrounds? Specifically, do they prefer more matured candidates than young but creative ones?

以下是引用Amw在2006-10-29 7:36:00的发言：

Thanks for the information. Do you have any idea about the lowest GMAT score in this year in your class?

sorry, I have no idea about the lowest GMAT score. I will ask the MBA office later. BTW, I do think GMAT is a little bit important, especially to whom comes from China (almost the most competitive location) or has no other strong shining point.

以下是引用modern在2006-10-29 15:20:00的发言：

流沙妳回來了~~ 好久不見

Cambridge那邊還好嗎? 想必也是每天水深火熱的讀書+作報告+career fair人生吧加油!

以下是引用VeraX在2006-10-29 15:45:00的发言：

Thx a lot for the information!

Looking forward to your kind reply. Thx again!

Regarding the working experience, I have to say our class is diverse enough, coming from 37 countries and all kinds of industries and functions. Our average working period is 7 years, and average age is above 30. I think the main reason is that Judge is one year MBA. However, we do have several classmates, only 21~24 years old, but very smart and creative. So just go ahead.

以下是引用icecream_mba在2006-10-29 16:41:00的发言：

Joyce, thx for your help !!!!

I will also apply for Judge Business School.

My name's Tony, from Hong Kong.

I just finished GMAT two days ago !!!

UK schools, I will apply Cambridge, Oxford and LBS.

We can discuss together how to work them out !!!

6.5 yr working experience, from Hong Kong !!!

Working as Engineering Consultant ... now thinking of the competitive edge...

planning to submit the application by mid-Dec !!

GMAT - 720... graduated from UK... TOEFL not required...

I've browsed some relative info. about Judge's MBA. By comparison, Judge charges less but values more.

But the question is its concern about the academic background, coz Cambridge, its said that, thinks highly of candidate's academic background (such as the GPA, the name of university for undergraduate, which is not my advantage).

Can I know if Cambridge will offer any scholarship and assistantship to candidate?

以下是引用VeraX在2006-10-30 14:44:00的发言：

TO 流沙：

I've browsed some relative info. about Judge's MBA. By comparison, Judge charges less but values more.

Is it the case?

Thanks a lot! : )

I have asked the MBA office. They told me that if you have some weaknesses, you'd better have some strong points. For example, if your gpa is not very high, your gmat needs to be decent, or your working experience is very strong. namely, balance is very important. therefore, I do encourage you to continue the application, and show your highlights.

Regarding the name of the university, it doesn't matter. First of all, they don't know the ranking of china universities; secondly, I know some chinese students who come from non-top universities.

By the way, Judge has recruited a new director, who was the former INSEAD deputy director. In my opinion, Judge will rise very quickly in the near future. As you have seen, Judge emphasises on academic background, which is determinded by the pervious director, a very excellent scholar. Now it is time to change and it will change very soon.

以下是引用carolwong1011在2006-11-2 13:45:00的发言：

Hello 流沙

Can I know if Cambridge will offer any scholarship and assistantship to candidate?

If yes,how much for the scholarship package?

Carol from Hong Kong

MSN: carolwong1011(在) gmail.com

以下是引用steffie在2006-11-7 1:07:00的发言：
I am interested in applying for Cambridge and Oxford as well, but will finish my IELTS and GMAT around mid Jan, 2007, will it be too later?

You can apply Judge after you finish the tests. Judge's application is rolling-based, which means it has no rounds and the deadline is pretty late (about June). But bear in mind that if you want to apply scholarships, it is better to check the website finding the deadlines for schloarships.

Which scholarships did you apply for last year? All of them need to be applied separately, right?

以下是引用流沙在2006-11-8 6:26:00的发言：

Good luck

我现在大三, UK, finalist 正在准备申请MASTER 打算申请MPhil Finance (Judge Business School)
以及
MPhil Real Estate Finance. 可我大二的成绩只有2:1, 很是劣势啊. 流沙JJ给些建议吧…

我现在又要申请, 又要对付5门功课, 还要
dissertation….. (GMAT 还要重考) 好
stress !!!

我不该弄的到处都是眼泪和口水….. 可是真的很静张. 压力满大啊~

以下是引用thesun在2006-11-8 19:45:00的发言：

Which scholarships did you apply for last year? All of them need to be applied separately, right?

以下是引用miaomiaomm在2006-11-9 7:14:00的发言：

流沙JJ,

我现在又要申请, 又要对付5门功课, 还要
dissertation….. (GMAT 还要重考) 好
stress !!!

Sorry, I am familiar with MSF and have no idea about the requirement. It is better for you to inquiry directly to the respective coordinator.

Yes, it is very tough to deal with many stuffs.But after you conquer them, you will find that you have potential to do many things you ever thought you couldn't. Looking back then, everything is relatively easy and you are on a new level. I assume you have got such kind of experience. That only thing you need to deal with is to hold on and keep working!

以下是引用steffie在2006-11-10 13:31:00的发言：
start to apply for Judge now

Sorry, I am familiar with MSF and have no idea about the requirement. It is better for you to inquiry directly to the respective coordinator.
Yes, it is very tough to deal with many stuffs.But after you conquer them, you will find that you have potential to do many things you ever thought you couldn't. Looking back then, everything is relatively easy and you are on a new level. I assume you have got such kind of experience. That only thing you need to deal with is to hold on and keep working!
+U! All best wishes,

谢谢流沙JJ, 你说的在理. 我会尽量做好应该做的. 真的很感谢!

Thanks a lot for your gracious help to us! I took GMAT last week and got only 710. I'm planning to apply for the "MPhil in Innovation, Stratergy and Organization" because this program is very much related to my current job. Unfortunaly, I majored in English and got an BA degree while this program requires an undergraduate degree in social science area. Is it possible that my work experience and my GMAT make up for my degree? Or do you think it's necessary for me to take GMAT again to get a >750 score? Thanks a lot in expecation of your reply. All your advice will be highly appreciated.

以下是引用flowingwater在2006-11-19 1:54:00的发言：

Hi LZ,

I think 710 is a pretty good score. However, because I am not familiar with this programme, I cannot give any advice to you. You may ask the graduate office directly about the requirement (Only MBA has mba office, others need to contact with graduate office).

If you are confident that you may get 750, maybe it is better for you to re-examine. however, 710 is enough even for MBA.

Recently I am pretty busy due to many deadlines of reports. However, I would love to share some feelings about Judge.

The first thing I would like to mention is its practical projects, which allow us to apply the knowledge into the real world. This term, we had Cambridge Venture Project, which collaborated with local start-up companies, helping them address certain strategy, marketing or sales issues. We had a long list to choose, but some teams had to bid for hot topic. Next term, we will have global consulting project, which collobrates with global big companies in many industries, e.g. consulting, ib, hi-tech, energy. Even though the final list has not been revealed, I believe it should be great,especially for whom wants to land a job in UK or change industry or functions. After the third term, we still have individual project, which is chosen by yourself.

The second thing is that, backed-up by Cambridge, it offeres a lot of opportunities for us to learn outside MBA. All kinds of lectures, activities and business competitions are in front of us. The only thing needed to do is to manage the time effectively. As you may know, cambridge has the largest hi-tech Sillion Fan in Europe. In order to help us understand how to start up the business and build the networking, "Cambridge University Entrepreneur" holds "Enterprise tuesday" workshop every week with related business topics. Therefore, if you want to be entrepreneur or start up your business later, Judge is a decent place to study.

以下是引用srzwyy在2006-11-20 8:50:00的发言：

Do you have MSN,pls give us the E-mail address

I bet she never gonna expose her MSN or frequently-used email address to public forums because of the junk flooding on internet.

It's quite useful information on the current MBA of Judge, thanks for ur sharing. I am also interested in applying for Judge. I just got a gmat score of 680, frastrating, but I got around 9 years working experiecne and now works as sales manager in a fortune 500 company in China.

What about my chances of going to Judge ? Could you pls give me some suggestion?

以下是引用lbd2006在2006-11-22 16:00:00的发言：

Dear Liu Sha,

What about my chances of going to Judge ? Could you pls give me some suggestion?

Thx

I think your background is pretty strong. In your case, gmat is not so important as you may think. Besides that, 680 is not a bad score, at least above average. therefore, do not feel frastrated. Putting your effort on the essays is more critical. Personally, I think essays and interview weight more than gmat if you got an average score.

Thanks for your reply and it's really encouraging. I will go ahead, but I still plan to re-take the gamt. Just one question, don't you think it will be later when I got the second round GMAT score in Jan next year? and also I still haven't take the ILETS,it won't be an obstacle i think.

Could pls share with us when you start your application and make some description on the process ? sorry , second queston now.

I also checked on the information about JBS. But I do not have any work experience. It means I can only apply other programme in the school. Does any of you have idea about the Mphil in Finance

Dear, can you share with us whether you choose campus interview or telephone interview? I understand that the Campus interview will much help, but most of cases it is not easy for a domestic chinese student to do the interview abroad.

以下是引用lbd2006在2006-11-23 10:35:00的发言：

Liu Sha ,

Could pls share with us when you start your application and make some description on the process ? sorry , second queston now.

Thanks!

Good luck for your gmat test then. Jan is not so late to apply. At least, the mba office told me that they will not conduct any interview before christmas, which is actually not true because till now there have had two coming to judge for interview. But what is true is that, most of us start to apply from Jan.

I submitted my application form on 11th Jan, and got informing about interview about 1~2 weeks later. I had a campus interview on March. The next day after interview I got the decision. Everything was very efficient and the staff was so nice and informative. It was really impressive if you ever went through the long-period waiting of other schools.

Regarding the essays, I didn't discuss with any classmates yet. But my feeling is that, different person has different strengths. The key point is to sell yourself, show your true thinking about your career, and demostrate your collabrative spirit. Judge is a relatively small community so that collabration is very important to us. Till now, I haven't found any really tough guy in our class. If you like such kind of atmosphere, definitely it is the right place.

以下是引用floratears在2006-11-23 23:58:00的发言：

I also checked on the information about JBS. But I do not have any work experience. It means I can only apply other programme in the school. Does any of you have idea about the Mphil in Finance

I am sorry that I have no idea about the Mphil in Finance. However, Phd in Finance is strong here.

If you want to apply mphil, my personal point is that you need to think about your career first then decide. Mphil in the UK is one-year. If you want to find a job here, you will find that almost all investment bankings start to recruit from Sep, when you just come and even haven't settled down.

以下是引用steffie在2006-11-24 2:42:00的发言：

I did campus interview because at that time I was in Germay. But I am minority among my chinese classmates. Most of them had interview in Beijing or Hongkong because Judge conducts interview there every year .

Some Thais in our class had telephone interview. But the mba office told me that they dont recommend it. So you may check the website to find the interview time and apply slightly earlier.

I also consider that one year is too short, but I do not have any idea about Phd. I am going to finish my undergraduate study in 2007, do you think how much chance I can be admitted to the Phd programme? I have not taken the gmat test, I do not know if it will be too late for me to apply, because I was told that it is better to apply earlier.

How do you comment between telephone interview and on-campus interview? Is on-site interview almost a guarantee one? Will there be any advantage if I go for on-campus interview?

以下是引用floratears在2006-11-24 11:51:00的发言：

Dear, Thank you very much.

Very sorry that I have no idea about the application of Phd. You'd better ask for someone else studying Phd currently. Good luck!

以下是引用thesun在2006-11-27 21:20:00的发言：

I have just got an interview invitation and the date is Jan 15.

How do you comment between telephone interview and on-campus interview? Is on-site interview almost a guarantee one? Will there be any advantage if I go for on-campus interview?

Yes, to my knowledge, I do recommend you to have an on-campus interview. It was said that about 80% of whom had on-campus interview would be admitted. I was not quite convinced by that, but it is sure that on-campus interview has higher chance to be admitted because it showes your interest towards the program. On the other hand, if you come here for interview, it is also a good opportunity to gain some feeling about "fit", which is very important to your future study and career development.

However, if you cannot come here, it is also fine to have a telephone interview. It really depends on you. This year, most of my chinese classmates had a hub-interview in Beijing, but still someone had a telephone interview. Now they all are here

)) What makes difference is your english ability, communication skillls and understanding yourself.

If I request for a telephone interview, do I need to wait until all on-campus interviews finish? For on-campus and telephone interview, how long do I need to wait for the result after the interview?

以下是引用thesun在2006-11-29 23:38:00的发言：

Thanks a lot Liu Sha.

If I request for a telephone interview, do I need to wait until all on-campus interviews finish? For on-campus and telephone interview, how long do I need to wait for the result after the interview?

Thanks.

以下是引用thesun在2006-12-2 0:12:00的发言：

How long do I need to wait for the result after the telephone interview?

Still need to wait until all on-campus interviews complete? thx

sorry, i am not quite sure about that. I will ask the mba office and go back to you later.

以下是引用thesun在2006-12-2 0:12:00的发言：

How long do I need to wait for the result after the telephone interview?

Still need to wait until all on-campus interviews complete? thx

Really sorry for late response. The news I got from the MBA office is that they haven't decided whether to conduct telephone interview or not this year. Probably you have to wait for several days to get more specific updates.

以下是引用cey23213在2006-12-3 17:50:00的发言：
Hi there, i am interested to know if Cambrige offer any scholarship to chinese student? because the tuition fee for Cambrige is really expensive, thank u

could you say something about studying /living in JBS ? like your study style , workload .

Hi there, I just started my second term after 4 tests for last term. This term I have 6 compulsary subjects with one elective. Every is allowed to choose one but can attend more. We have study group to deal with group assignments, but we still have individual assignments.

My feeling toward the workload is that, even though i feel i am pretty busy, we are still relatively easy in comparison with other business schools. For example, we have much less exams than Oxford.

Collaboration is very important during the study, and is also a very impressive feature of JBS. Everyone here is very nice. We try to help each other other than competing with each other. Learning from the peers is really amazing process.

Regarding the living, Cambridge and oxford probably are the only two collegial university, which means we live in the colleges and studies in the department. They are independent entities. If you were admitted by JBS, you will be chosen by a college, which is in charge of your living and accomadation.

could you plz give me a specific contacter's email? I've sent out my application materials last week. but there's no any response. and nobody replied my email. I'm not quite sure have they rec'd my application?

以下是引用phileas在2007-1-13 11:22:00的发言：

liusha

tks a lot.

2. on average,how many students are there in Judge MBA program every year? and how many come from China?

以下是引用phileas在2007-1-14 17:52:00的发言：

Liusha

Thank you for your reply.I got two more questions as below:

1. what's the approximate success rate for all condidates as a whole?

2. on average,how many students are there in Judge MBA program every year? and how many come from China?

Tks.

according to the data on the businessweek, about 25% admission rate. Now, every year there are about 100 students and 10% are chinese.

以下是引用流沙在2007-1-13 0:18:00的发言：

My feeling toward the workload is that, even though i feel i am pretty busy, we are still relatively easy in comparison with other business schools. For example, we have much less exams than Oxford.

If having more questions, feel free to ask!

2. there's an anual sports meeting among European MBA programs such as Judge/Said/IE,what games are there in the meeting,could you please say something about it?

GMAT score is said ‘not a formal requirement, for applicants from universities which may not be well known to members of the admissions committee, a strong GRE or GMAT test result may well make a difference. formal requirement, for applicants from universities which may not be well known to members of the admissions committee, a strong GRE or GMAT test result may well make a difference.’

My situation is Bachelor and Master in finance from a French university。To well represent myself，should I send GMAT score？？？Because I have one but it is very low。

I have 10years working experience in Sourcing department, is Judge strong at Supply Chain Management?

I haven't taken the GMAT & IELTS exams, will take it in Feb. & Mar., is it too late for me to apply?

以下是引用phileas在2007-1-15 14:09:00的发言：

Tks a lot. you are so efficient.

I got two more questions as below:

1. will Judge MBA program give Conditional Offer to some cantidates?

2. there's an anual sports meeting among European MBA programs such as Judge/Said/IE,what games are there in the meeting,could you please say something about it?

Tks.

Yes, Judge sends out conditional offer in case your english is not good enough. The candidate whose english needs to improve has to take the english learning course in cambridge before the first term starts.

Some of my classmates attended the sports, i.e. football, volleyball, basketball. It had more fun than competing. This term, we will have a tournament with oxford mba, and may go to paris to attend MBA Tournament this June. Just for fun again!

以下是引用dianap在2007-1-18 20:47:00的发言：
I'm wondering is there any other interview mothed such as tele-interview or alumni interview rather than on-campus interview for JBS?

There is no alumni interview, few tele-interview which was said to be cancelled but still someone got this kind of interview.

One thing that has to mention is that, last monday Judge had the first on-campus interview this year and all of 13 applicants are admitted. It is the first time to admit all the applicants even though the admission rate of on-campus before was also very high, 80%~90%. And 4 of them accepted the offers immediately. Probably it has two reasons, 1. the quality of the pool is excellent this year; 2. the reputation of Judge is rising rapidly.

Another one I would like to mention is the ranking. As we may see, the ranking of JBS is not very high recently. According to the explanation of JBS's director, the datas quoted by those rankings were collected 5~6 years ago, and cannot demostrate the current quality of this program. Actually, in my experience, JBS is getting better recently, especially having the new deputy director.

以下是引用george_shi2001在2007-1-19 0:42:00的发言：

Hi，everyone。

I am applying for MPhi Finance Research and PhD。

My situation is Bachelor and Master in finance from a French university。To well represent myself，should I send GMAT score？？？Because I have one but it is very low。

以下是引用jnfxu在2007-1-19 13:15:00的发言：

Hi LiuSha,

I have some questions regarding this MBA program.

I have 10years working experience in Sourcing department, is Judge strong at Supply Chain Management?

What is their strength, finance, entrepreneur, or others?

I haven't taken the GMAT & IELTS exams, will take it in Feb. & Mar., is it too late for me to apply?

Thanks for your information.

I wrote a long post for the questions, unfortunetly totally lost due to the bug of the forum. Just reply briefly again

JBS is not well-known for its supply chain management. In my opinion, it is good at technology mgt. But the class here is very diversified so that I have classmates from all kinds of industries and sectors.

i can only apply the scholarship after my offer is secured, does it mean that i have to pay the deposit before knowing the scholarship result?

so on average, there will be around 15 candidates receiving on-campus interview every time? and on-campus interview will be held every month?

normally,besides Simon, who will be the interviewer for MBA candidates ? and what kind of questions the interviewer normally ask? and what characteristics the interviewer want to find from candidates for JBS?

I've noticed that JBS had a new director from Insead. So I'm wondering is there any change on this year's MBA enrollment? For example, will the number of enrollment go up?

It seems every year there were/are around ten Chinese students in MBA class, would you be able to advice some information about what kind of job/location they got after MBA?

Some scholarships come along with the admission, some don't. Therefore, it depends on what kind of scholarship you've got.

From this month, every month there will be one or two on-campus interview, with about 15 applicants. The interviewees vary every time depending on which professor are assigned to interview. The final decision are made by the committee. Besides, as far as I know, the questions vary as well. But the typical questions are why now? why mba? why Judge and your career plan.

I believe the new director attracts more people to apply, but i dont know the exact number. However, What I believe more is that the impact of the new director will expose in later years not this year due to his short time on duty till now.

Every year, there is about 10 or so chinese students, some of whom go back to china coz they are sponsored by the companies. Others' jobs are not bad as well. But again, it depends on the previous experience.

Sorry for short response because i have too many cases to do this term. Good luck to everyone and hope see you in JBS.

I'll go Cambridge on Feb 21st,2007 for a B-School tour. But the agent will send us to King's College and Trinity College according to the trip agenda.

I've read some information about Judge B-School on its website. I'm seeking the possibility of apply for admission in Fall,2007. My major is applied mathematics and have 18-years work experience.

以下是引用max2k在2007-1-26 14:33:00的发言：

I'll go Cambridge on Feb 21st,2007 for a B-School tour. But the agent will send us to King's College and Trinity College according to the trip agenda.

I've read some information about Judge B-School on its website. I'm seeking the possibility of apply for admission in Fall,2007. My major is applied mathematics and have 18-years work experience.

If you have any comment,feel free to let me know at liming_lizi(A) hotmail.com or its MSN.

Thanks a lot.

If you want to visit JBS, you may contact mba office firstly. King's college and Trinity is quite near JBS, about 5 minutes on foot. Besides that, your working experience is very strong, in my opinion, you have good chande to be admitted if your whole package is balanced.

I've just received the interview invitation from jbs. The date is set to be 12 March. But it's not an easy job for me to get to England. On the other hand, I'm worrying that a telephone interview will lessen my chance to get the final offer. Can you give me some advice?

以下是引用mccoist在2007-1-30 0:17:00的发言：

Dear Liusha

Thanks!

Have you noticed the FT ranking? Cam MBA rocked to 15!

If you cannot manage to come, ask Jo to make it in Beijing. Every year, the mba interviewees conduct some interviews in China, perhaps in April.

I am writing for the application essay. Is there any clubs related to management consulting and entrepreneurship so that I can join?

I am figuring out the extra-curricular activities for mutual fit ! The strength of the judge would be consulting, leadership skills.

以下是引用wangshan001在2007-2-1 17:41:00的发言：

Dear liusha,

I am writing for the application essay. Is there any clubs related to management consulting and entrepreneurship so that I can join?

I am figuring out the extra-curricular activities for mutual fit ! The strength of the judge would be consulting, leadership skills.

Please also advise for other strength.thx

Actually I think the distinctive of JBS is its innovation and Entrepreneurship, not management consulting, that is INSEAD.

Search "Enterprise Tuesday", you will get some ideas about entreperneurship, networking, business idea & creation competition.

Innovation is the heart of JBS curriculum, we have a series of core and electives about innovation. Last week, we just finished a two-day creativity workshop, which was jointly held by JBS and Satchi&Satchi.

We have three main projects, namely "Cambridge Venture Project", "Global consulting project" & "Individual project", which are throughout the whole year, to help us appy the knowledge into the real world. Maybe such curriculum is not unique since each school has similar one, but it is actually a big opportunity for us.

Would you pls give me some insight idea about the payment schedule of the tuition for the typical one-year MBA program? After paying a sum of money as the reservation fee, is it normally need to pay all the tuition when we do the registration or it could be paid in several batch?

I am invited to have on-campus interview on 12 Mar, while there is alternative offer to have interview in Beijing on 21 Mar. Do you think there is preference given to candidates going to cambridge? From the website, it mentions that preference will be given to those candidates. When I asked for details from the officer in email, he said there is no any preference actually. It's the same for candidates having interview in Cambridge and Beijing. Would like to seek for your advice.

As far as I know, there is no preference between beijing interview and on-campus interview since majority of chinese has interview in Beijing. Regarding the prefrence, I think there is difference between on-campus and tele interview.

以下是引用tupo在2007-2-8 10:23:00的发言：
liusha, 想问问一般的那些公司sponser 学生作consulting project？比如IBM consulting？ ACCENTURE ? 一般的话中国背景的同学是否都可以得到这种机会呢，这些公司是学校帮忙联系么？ thanks

yes, the companies are contacted by the school. This year, we have about 40 projects even though we only have about 22 groups. Most of them are big names, such as microsoft, cisco, pfizer, BT, sony ericsson, capgemini, UBC, JP morgan, Global fund, WHO, HP, IBM ...

The selection of the company is nothing with the nation. You just need to form a team and probably bid for the project if there is competition. BTW, it is compulsory to everyone.

流沙，我想了解一下中国学生去年从JBS毕业后的就业情况，形势如何？

另外有人说想去投行和咨询公司，JBS比SBS有优势，你是局内人，情况是这样吗？

Hi, I met Jo today and asked about the exact number of Chinese application being admitted. She said not quite a few since it is still a little bit early. Currently, there are some interviews conducting in Beijing.

Regarding IB and Consulting, I didn't hear such kind of messages. Since I haven't compared both schools before and now, it is difficult for me to say. But some chinese do have interview in this stage. The point is that most of position open to Chinese is going back to China considering the emerging china market and the language issues of chinese.

Thank you for the information you provided about JBS MBA. I'm also intrested in applying for JBS MBA as it is strong on entrepreneurship and creativity.

I have worked many years in engineering and technology in few countries and now working in UK. My future career goal is to set up a high tech start-up, but it depends on whether having chance to attract venture capital.

Would you be able to give some information about previous MBA graduates who set up their own company and whether there are some VC intrested in contacting/investing on those start-up.

以下是引用流沙在2007-2-9 8:30:00的发言：

The selection of the company is nothing with the nation. You just need to form a team and probably bid for the project if there is competition. BTW, it is compulsory to everyone.

以下是引用Amw在2007-3-5 7:45:00的发言：

Liusha,

Thank you for the information you provided about JBS MBA. I'm also intrested in applying for JBS MBA as it is strong on entrepreneurship and creativity.

Would you be able to give some information about previous MBA graduates who set up their own company and whether there are some VC intrested in contacting/investing on those start-up.

Thanks,

cambridge has a lot of vcs, such as 3i, cambridge angel and library house. However, bear in mind that getting investment needs really hardworking and solid networking even though Cambridge does provide a lot of opportunities for entrepreneurs to connect with VCs.

If you viewed website of JBS, you will find several MBAs started their own business in cambridge sucessfully. As far as I know, there are about 5 (at least) starting business immediately after MBA. But I am not sure whether they contacted VC or not.

Here we have business idea competition, business creation competition as well as VC competition. If your project is good enough, dont worry too much about money in my opionion.

I know few people, their project was won the first prize in the business competition of Cambridge. After that they set up their own business few years ago and now is planing to float in NASQ.

Some questions have puzzled me before I decide to apply JUS, would you like to answer those as follows,

1. I heard from the web(http://baike.baidu.com/view/13714.htm) that “剑桥大学向来是以考试制度严格而闻名的，每科课程只考一次，没有补考的机会，考试如果未获通过，其结果只有离开剑桥。” Is it same as MBA?

2. How to test each course? close-book test ,or open-book test, or submitting paper only?

I am reading other forums and informed that in the current OX MBA class, there are 84 Indians(including internation Indians), How about the situation in Cambridge? Heard in INSEAD singapore, Indian students are also the absolute majority.

I have some questions regarding to the post-MBA career and the program's reputation of cambridge and oxford (I'd assume both programs are in similar situation), pls help.

1。oxbridge MBA 在欧洲的知名度和认可程度如何？
2。毕业后想进management consulting (McK,BCG,Bain...) 或IB的机会多吗？
3。毕业后中国学生在欧美找工作的情况如何？大多都在什么行业
4。中国学生是不是大部分在毕业前都会有offer
5。印度人的比例是多少 (funny Q but it does matter)
6。如果回国，香港或在新加坡工作，oxford的牌子是不是对以上问题1，2，3，4有很大的积极作用？
7。said business school 的网上说，said MBA 毕业生的平均起薪是64+K pounds, 据大家了解，这个薪水普遍吗？中国学生的薪水比这个高还是底（平均）
8。在欧美，oxford和美国rank 10-20的MBA program, 哪个更有竞争力(generally speaking)

以下是引用steffie在2007-3-26 22:25:00的发言：

Dear Liusha:

Again, thanks for your assistance and contribution!

Indians are flooding everywhere (sorry, no offensive, in case any indian readers here). INSEAD singapore does have many indians but definitely not majority. "Many indians" because singapore has a lot of indians (residence, students, migrated families etc), but they are not majority in INSEAD because the school wont allow any nationalities to exceed 12% of the class population. and I didnt see many when I visited the school in Singapore.

以下是引用vimaworld在2007-3-26 22:26:00的发言：

Hi Liu Sha and everyone,

I have some questions regarding to the post-MBA career and the program's reputation of cambridge and oxford (I'd assume both programs are in similar situation), pls help.

1。oxbridge MBA 在欧洲的知名度和认可程度如何？
2。毕业后想进management consulting (McK,BCG,Bain...) 或IB的机会多吗？
3。毕业后中国学生在欧美找工作的情况如何？大多都在什么行业
4。中国学生是不是大部分在毕业前都会有offer
5。印度人的比例是多少 (funny Q but it does matter)
6。如果回国，香港或在新加坡工作，oxford(oxbridge?)的牌子是不是对以上问题1，2，3，4有很大的积极作用？
7。said business school 的网上说，said MBA 毕业生的平均起薪是64+K pounds, 据大家了解，这个薪水普遍吗？中国学生的薪水比这个高还是底（平均）
8。在欧美，oxford(oxbridge?)和美国rank 10-20的MBA program, 哪个更有竞争力(generally speaking)

Thanks in advance and really appreciate your info

These questions are exactly what I am concerning right now, too. I think Vima referred to OXBRIDGE when he wrote OXFORD in his note.

Besides, I am also eager to know if the judge programme is well-designed for career-changers. It is a 1-year programme afterall.

I guess you are currently busy with your consulting project. Thanks for your kindness and patience in advace.

Working experience, 3 yrs in a Big 4 Shanghai office, focus on Finance services industry.

I am thinking about going to Judge, Said or LBS for the MBA study. Based on your experience, what do I need to improve to secure the offer in those schools? Thx a lot~~

3 year working expereince;Now I am wokring in a top 500 company.But most candidate and current MBA students have 6 years (average) or more working expereince.It is my big concern.