Get the inside scoop on jobs and careers with Vault career guides. The Ashridge Business School Buzz Book is your complete resource to jobs, careers, interviews and recruiting.
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The Ashridge Business School Buzz Book Get the inside scoop on jobs and careers with Vault career guides. The Ashridge Business School Buzz Book is your complete resource to jobs, careers, interviews and recruiting. |
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The Ashridge Business School Buzz Book Welcome to the first edition of Vault's Ashridge Business School Buzz Book. In this new and unique guide, we publish extended excerpts and sample admissions essays from surveys of students and alumni from Ashridge to bring you the inside scoop on its MBA program. The survey comments cover the following areas:
The guide is intended to serve as a complement to other references to business schools currently available that utilize school-reported data. Unlike those guides, Vault's Buzz Books (which also include the London Business School Buzz Book, Business School Buzz Book , Law School Buzz Book and College Buzz Book) are composed almost entirely of information provided directly to Vault from students and alumni.
We received comments from Ashridge. We have included comments next to appropriate survey sections, offset with a different font and indented to be easily recognizable as school-provided comments. Corrections within the body of the comments are enclosed in brackets. In the cases where a school provided separate narratives, we have included them at the end of each chapter, under the heading "The School Says."
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Status: Current student, full-time
Dates of Enrollment: 1/2007-Submit Date
Survey Submitted: March 2007
MBA in a Day is a great event, it is an open day when you have the opportunity to spend the day at Ashridge meeting faculties, attending sessions in finance and strategy. People have lunch together with faculty members and are interviewed (optional). Everybody is very approachable, supportive and helpful. The school emphasizes the importance of diversity and your own point of view. The essay questions are in the application form brochure and you should strive to stress your capability and your own view. Response usually is in few days (less than a week). There is no extreme bureaucracy--the whole procedure is supportive and encouraging.
Academics: Students Speak
Status: Alumnus/a, full-time
Dates of Enrollment: 1/2006-12/2006
Survey Submitted: March 2007
The academic program is focused on leadership development, interpersonal skills and capacity to learn and adapt to new challenges. All lecturers have extensive professional experience on multiple subjects and remain in contact with the businesses through consulting. Ashridge provides a very interactive classroom style, which contributes to the positive learning environment and progressive academic development. Grading is driven by personal reflex ion, understanding of coursework and quality of both style and presentation. The workload is adequate to balance both personal and academic requirements during the year. Lecturers were extremely approachable and attentive to the students' needs.
Academics: The School Says
We believe that all development must make a difference, be practical and based on real issues. Would you learn surgery from a doctor who has never performed an operation or law from a lawyer who has never stood up in court? No, of course not. Then why would you learn business from someone who has never led an organization? At Ashridge, you will learn from faculty who have earned their living at the cutting edge of business at senior positions in international organizations. The MBA project goes beyond theory by giving you the opportunity to put into practice all that you have learned via a strategic consulting assignment for a client organization or for your employer.
Ashridge is a leading provider of executive education (third in Europe in the Financial Times' Customized Executive Education Rankings) and one of the only business schools to have its own consulting arm. Ashridge works with thousands of executives around the globe every year and this business experience feeds directly into the MBA programs.
Employment Prospects: Students Speak
Status: Alumnus/a, executive MBA program
Dates of Enrollment: 10/2004-12/2006
Survey Submitted: March 2007
Ashridge is among the top business schools in Europe and offers its graduates good chances for their future. The tight alumni network provides an ongoing learning process after graduation. Graduates in general obtain senior management jobs.
Status: Alumnus/a, executive MBA program
Dates of Enrollment: 9/2004-12/2006
Survey Submitted: March 2007
Employers like the "real-life" approach developed by Ashridge. From a career perspective, most of my classmates did immediately got either a promotion or were offered a higher position in another company. I was offered a great opportunity in a big U.S. company.
Quality of Life: Students Speak
Status: Alumnus/a, executive MBA program
Dates of Enrollment: 10/2004-12/2006
Survey Submitted: March 2007
One word: excellent. Ashridge is the best place for studying and concentrating, thanks to its wonderful location and great facilities. Housing is brilliant and the green surrounding area allows rest and concentration. Top class dining for all tastes. Considering Ashridge's location, learning and sports facilities, restaurant and bar, it can definitely be defined as a positive and memorable Ashridge experience.
Social Life: Students Speak
Status: Current student, executive MBA program
Dates of Enrollment: 9/2006-Submit Date
Survey Submitted: March 2007
During an intense week in module, the college bar is the main haunt, with an occasional walk up to the local country pub. Usually two evenings a week are taken with one formal dinner with a speaker and an informal night doing drumming or something interactive. The fellow students on the program keep you grounded (and smiling). Learning support groups (approximately five or six people) are allocated and become what you make of them--learning support, personal support or an opportunity to meet between modules for a beer.
