The QS World MBA Tour, the world’s largest international programme of business school information fairs, visits Johannesburg on Monday March 26, with a record number of business schools from across the globe.
The QS World MBA Tour is the primary recruitment tool for the world’s leading business schools, and has been touring the globe now for 13 years. This year more than 200 international business schools will be travelling with the tour, up from 160 last year. Participating United States schools include Wharton, Tuck, Georgetown, Columbia, Chicago and Haas; European schools include London Business School, Manchester Business School, Imperial, Warwick, IESE, Instituto de Empresa, ESADE, MIP-Politecnico di Milano, IMD and INSEAD.
The Johannesburg QS World MBA Tour fair, which will take place at the Intercontinental Johannesburg Sandton Sun Hotel, gives prospective MBA candidates the opportunity to meet with business school admissions officers from around the world. Visitors will be able to obtain information on school programme content, costs, programme duration, financial aid and post-qualification career options.
In addition, future MBA students will be able to access information regarding the admissions process, including tips for preparing a winning application and a Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) preparation seminar.
In 2006, over 75 000 young professionals registered to attend the QS World MBA Tour fairs around the world and 98% of attendees rated the fairs “very useful” or “useful”. Talking face-to-face with alumni and admissions officers is invaluable in helping candidates decide where and when they want to study and how they can go about being accepted by the school of their choice.
The exceptional number of business schools attending this year’s tour is a response to the high turnout last year around the world. The QS World MBA Tour increased candidate registration numbers by over 20% in 2006, in addition to contributing to a 5% increase in GMAT test takers worldwide. Many top business schools today rely on meeting candidates at the QS World MBA Tour — candidates who are then invited to join information sessions, web-chats, an online application process or preliminary interviews.
Rose Martinelli, admissions director at Chicago Graduate School of Business, said: “We had an excellent year in 2006. We attended all of the autumn QS World MBA Tour fairs and it was great.” Deise Leobet of Instituto de Empresa added: “We have been really happy with every city on the Tour. QS consistently runs great fairs. Reflecting this, our application numbers are excellent.”
QS is the authority on international careers and education at MBA and postgraduate level. In addition to running the World MBA Tour, QS provides research on MBA and postgraduate salaries and recruitment trends, as well as producing the QS Global 100 Top MBA Programmes and the Times Higher — QS World University Rankings reports. Copies of these reports will be available at the fair and the first 100 visitors receive a free copy of the QS TopMBA Career Guide.
For more information and to pre-register visit www.topmba.com.
The tour visits Johannesburg on Monday March 26, from 5pm to 9pm, at the Intercontinental Johannesburg Sandton Sun, corner of Fifth Street and Alice Lane, Johannesburg.
Nunzio Quacquarelli is the director of the QS World MBA Tour