Just an update on my situation:

I applied to Oxford and Kellogg-WHU (for now) and have been invited for interviews, both of them this week. I will likely also apply to Warwick as a third choice if neither of the first two go through.

I have some ideas on preferences, but would really appreciate comparative inputs on both as they are quite different.

Thanks again!

[Edited by cfduarte on Aug 08, 2017]

Interviews done and dusted, and I’m currently looking at offers from both Oxford SBS and Kellogg-WHU. I have a good idea of which I will pick (have until the end of the week to make a decision) but would like to know any input you might have.

Thanks all

Both good courses. Two MBAs is tempting ☺

Eheheh Thanks, might be a bit too much though! Honestly, one of the hardest decisions I ever had to take.

I don't think one is much harder than the other, it is? Kellogg has lots of small, bite sized, modules.

They are different. There is far more hand-holding in Oxford (I had a look at actual time tables from the Jan 2016 class), with lots of tutorials and prep courses before presentations. Also, apart from two sit-in exams, the rest is all either group projects or individual assignments/reports. Apart from a single course (Entrepreneurship project) which has 10% of the grade for an oral group presentation, the rest is all written assessment.

Kellogg works differently, with at least 50% of the grade for each course for what they call exams (which can be proper - but take at home - exams or individual assignments/reports) and the rest for group work, in-class participation or in-class testing. The American courses, taken at Kellogg in Evanston, are assessed by sit-in exams. I didn't ask, but I'm pretty sure the same applies to all the electives as they are taken away from Germany, at one of the partner schools.

Kellog is - I agree - more broad and less focused. In my case I am considering that a plus, as the main drawback (for me) for the Oxford program is a really strong focus on corporate and global finance, to the detriment of general management or other disciplines (marketing, for example).

In the end, I am balancing what I consider to be a better program (and the "free electives and refreshers for life" is a huge plus) at Kellogg-WHU against the weight and recognition of the Oxford brand (not specific to the Business School) in Europe and the easier logistics (for me) of going to the UK.

I would pick Northwestern. Two networks, a better designed course, a global network and lifelong learning.

I will decide tomorrow (Monday) morning, as I need to discuss this internally in terms of both timing (Kellogg-WHU starts in 3 weeks and we have some internal project deadlines in September) and how much time the courses take (in 2018, 7 weeks for Kellogg-WHU, 9 weeks for SBS).

I find it interesting that you (and my interviewer at Oxford) both mention the Kellogg-WHU course as just Kellogg (or Northwestern).

Yes, I guess it is the case that the programme design is Kellogg's.