Int'l MBA Event to welcome guests soon
By Sara Rajabova
The Access MBA Tour – a leading international business education fair – will welcome the participants in Baku on March 12.
“Access MBA is designed to bridge the distance between aspiring students and elite business schools from around the world through personalized one-to-one meetings between candidates and school representatives,” said Christophe Coutat, Managing Director of the organizer Advent Group.
The one-to-one meetings are aimed at helping prospective students find a top business program that corresponds to their abilities and expectations. Interviews are customized for each participant in advance and qualified attendees are given 25 minutes to discuss their opportunities to study an MBA program directly with admission directors. In order to qualify for the meetings, candidates undergo a selection and matching process which considers both their qualifications and wishes.
The event is composed of business schools from Europe and North America, as well as from the wider Eurasia region. Candidates can expect to meet representatives from schools such as Insead Business School, IE Business School, and Manchester Business School, while a total of 125 schools will feature in the Access MBA Tour this year.
The current event is part of Access MBA’s Spring Tour, which will visit 34 cities across the world this season alone. It is expected that the event will be attended by up to 200 specifically selected candidates residing in Baku and elsewhere around the country.
The event starts at 4:30 p.m. and will last until 10:00 p.m. Besides the private one-to-one meetings with admission officers, candidates will also be able to get advice and support for MBA preparation from the Access MBA consulting team; obtain GMAT and scholarship information; gain insight into the MBA admissions process, and participate in panel discussions featuring school representatives and alumni.
The highly sought-after MBA degree prepares business professionals for managerial roles. In its 2014 Corporate Recruiters Survey report, the Graduate Management Admission Council, a U.S.-based organization dedicated to publicizing information about the MBA degree, stated that four in five companies (80percent) plan to hire MBA graduates.
In Europe, holders of the MBA degree can expect to receive a median base salary of € 59,000 compared to € 35,000 for those with a Bachelor’s degree, while in the U.S. the gap between the two qualifications is even wider: $ 95,000 for MBAs compared to $ 50,000 for Bachelor’s-degree recipients. In the Asia-Pacific region, the majority of employers (62 percent) plans to increase MBA base salaries at the rate of inflation (31 percent) or above (31percent), compared with 2013.
In order to be selected for the one-to-one meetings, candidates are required to register online at http://www.accessmba.com/baku/index.html well in advance. Registration is free of charge, but does not guarantee an opportunity to attend a one-to-one meeting, which is subject to consideration by the Access MBA’s Candidate Management team.
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