Are you a hardworking professional who wishes to transform your career towards betterment with the power of higher educational qualification like MBA from a reputed college? London Business School is the ideal place for you to get enrolled in an MBA curriculum for a top class business education. Founded in 1964, LBS ranks within the top 5 international schools all over the world with a unique combination of academic excellence, practical experiences connected to the real world, global recognition and seamless opportunities for the aspiring students.  You can earn a full time MBA degree from London Business School which complies with the current business scenario of the world. There are several other programmes which are custom made exclusively to meet the requirements of the professionals all over like Executive MBA or EMBA, Masters in Finance, Masters in Management as well as PhD that can take you one step ahead in your career.

Who can join the MBA program and how will it help in career growth?

To join the MBA program in a premium institute like London Business School, you need to be intellectually competent, ambitious, and laborious and must possess a managerial skill to be nurtured there. The programme suits those who wish to enhance their knowledge of business as well as its management, accelerate career growth with faster promotions, or wish to switch over to a different field from the existing ones. Even if you are running a family business and wish to sharpen your entrepreneurial skills you may stand a fair chance of admission in this premium B-School. Once you join London School of business you would learn to create and nurture business relationships with your employers and clients, understand several facets of successful business strategies, and take correct professional decisions with developed analytical and logical skills and getting an overall competitive advantage over the others.

Application and Admission Criteria:

-You must possess an undergraduate degree or a qualification equivalent to it. However, if you don’t meet these criteria but have worked in a higher level of responsibility, you may still be a potential candidate for LBS.

-A minimum work experience of 2 years is mandatory for an applicant. For people with less than 3 years of experience need to show the evidences of excellent performance or must possess outstanding academic excellence.

-You must have an appropriate GMAT score for applying to the LBS. Such scores are valid for only 5 years so you must take the test accordingly.

-If English isn’t your mother tongue then you must submit your TOEFL/IELTS/PTE/CAE scores to the admission cell with your application. However if you have lived (for 2 years) /studied / worked in an English speaking country then you need not to do so.

-You need to write few application essays along with your application which carries a major significance in the selection procedure.

-Other than these you also have to send your updated CV, degree certificates, at least two references, application fees, etc to the selectors of LBS.

-The application fee is kept to be £160 which is waivered if there is a recommendation from alumni. The tuition fees for the entire session are £ 64200 for the current batch.

Scholarships:  

Fortunately, the students can get a lot of scholarships funded by London Business School which are open for almost all successful candidates depending on their merits. These are:

-MBA94 Scholarship Funds: Cover first year tuition fees.

-MSc05 Scholarship Funds: Awards £20,000.

-Jeremy Asher Scholarships: Awards £20,000.

-Bank of America Merill Lynch Scholarship: Awards £20,000.

-The Gallifrey Scholarship for Social Enterprise: Awards £20,000.

-The Mark Le Goy MBA97 Scholarship: Cover 50% of first year fee.

-The YPO Scholarship: Awards £20,000.

For women there are some separate types of scholarships designed like:

-The London Business School Women’s Scholarship: Cover first year fee.

-Celia Atkin Avent Scholarship: Cover first year fee.

-The Carlsson Family Scholarship: Awards £20,000.

-Forte Foundation Fellowships: Offer two awards of £20,000.

-Lloyds Scholars MBA Scholarship for Women: Offer four awards of £30,000.

-Deutsche Bank Women’s Scholarships: Offer four awards of £20,000.

There is a special military scholarship designed by the London School of Business for students who are professionally from that background. This scholarship offers 5 awards worth £20,000.

Other than these there are several others like:

-The Mo Ibrahim Foundation Scholarship for Sub-Saharan Africa: Offer two full fee awards.

-The Australia/New Zealand Scholarship: Covers first year fee.

-The USA/Canada Scholarship: Covers first year fee.

-The Latin America Scholarship: Covers first year fee.

-The Gonzalo R. Garcia MBA 1993 Scholarship: Offer one award of £25,000.

-The China Scholarship: Covers first year fee.

-The Elof Hansson Foundation Scholarship: Cover first year fee.

-CAP Scholarships: Offer two awards of £20,000.

-The Vodafone Group Foundation Scholarships – The Sir Christopher Gent Awards: Offer four awards of £20,000.

-Blavatnik Scholarship: Awards £20,000.

– Huw Jenkins Scholarship: Arawds £25,000

-The London Business School Israel Scholarship: Offer one award of £25,000.

-LIFE Lebanese Scholarship: Offer $10,000 per year.

-The Borrows Scholarship: Offer one award of £22,000.

Many external organizations also offer some international scholarships and grants to students who are attending London Business School.

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