Hi,

I have received a conditional offer letter from loughborough university as well university of hull for 2015 intake.Could you please tell me which one out of these are good ones.

What are your goals?

Hi Duncan,

I am looking for a good quality MBA with good accreditation which i can afford.

I think he means your long-term goals, such as what industry or functional area you want to end up in.

i would like to get in to management consulting....

Take a look at How to use LinkedIn to find the best school www.find-mba.com/board/33571

If you want to get into management consultancy, you'd be better off investing more (even if that means borrowing) to get into a ranked school.

Hi Duncan,

The thing is that i can't afford the heavy expenses of the best schools.

So if i am not planning for management consulting , is hull/loughborough fine?

That depends on your goals. Look on LInkedIn and see what sort of roles international students get.

But, seriously, Lougborough is 23k, while Durham is 25k and Birmingham is only 21k. So, there are much better schools at the same cost.

See http://board.find-mba.com/general-forum/best-schools-for-international-students-placement-35651

Hi Duncan,

Can you suggest me some more good schools considering my 8.6 years of engineering experience either in UK or Europe in an affordable budget

Use the FT rankins and How to use LinkedIn to find the best school www.find-mba.com/board/33571

I did a quick search on Linkedin for MBAs working in management consultants based in the UK. Turns out that of course LBS is the top feeder school, but I'm guessing that's out of your range. But Cranfield and Warwick are in the top five, these may be worth looking into. Not as cheap as the programs you're looking at, but, over the long term, not too much more either.

I did a quick search on Linkedin for MBAs working in management consultants based in the UK. Turns out that of course LBS is the top feeder school, but I'm guessing that's out of your range. But Cranfield and Warwick are in the top five, these may be worth looking into. Not as cheap as the programs you're looking at, but, over the long term, not too much more either.

Considering that they're in the top five for the LinkedIn search results I mentioned, they would not be bad choices.

The big caveat is that they probably wouldn't be your best choices for the Big 5, but rather for smaller and more boutique-style consultancies.

If you're targeting the big five, you'd want to go to Insead, LBS, or maybe even Cambridge or Oxford.

I'll have to look through LinkedIn. Thanks for the insight on this.

Hi Duncan,

I have received a gold scholarship from loughborough university for the MBA program,so now the tuition fee has came down to 13.5k.Now could you please tell me your views about whether is it a good deal or not.

I also received another offer from corvinus university (Hungary,Budapest),Could you please tell me your views about this program as well.

You can search the board and get some good insight into these programmes. if you need a considered response from me, which would have to consider your goals, background and the real alternatives, then you can see my profile page for ways to work with me. Read the article linked on their about scholarships.