Dear Experts,

I need your sincere advice on selecting the universities from below for Full time MBA.

My profile in brief is : Working in IT company from past 6 years in initial managemet level.

I got the offer from below universities :
Aston, Strathclyde, BATH, Edinburgh

could you please suggest me, which school would be best for me to do my full time MBA as far as below is considered :
a) MBA reputation & long term benefits
b) Post MBA job prospects
c) Valur for money

Your help on this would be highly appreciated.

Hi dare2dream,

I think Aston is a good school -
Aston B-school has a good reputation and is among the top 1% of uni's to have triple acreditation and global uptake - 94% international!!
The FT ranked Aston 1st in the UK and 5th in the World for career progression which is pretty impressive - an Aston must make a big difference to the students career prospects to achieve that kind of ranking!?
Value for money - it's not the cheapest of Unis but with the excellent career prospects it sounds like it's worth the cost - it increases the salary of its students on average of 70% so you can work out how much you'll earn and how long it'll take to pay for itself!

Good luck - let us know what you eventually decide!

Thanks Magnet for your kind suggestion.

What do you think about Strathclyde? It is having three years ranking as 41 in FT for all business schools in world as compared to aston, which is at number 73. Also Strathclyde has been rated higher in all the categories of comparison with Aston.
I am not having the constraint of higher fee unless the school will not provide good MBA job.

Please suggest me further on this. Also please rank the schools, which i should have to consider, while making the decision.

Will suggest Strathclyde....I think it is best among the best and I think no justification is needed to support Strathclyde..

Thanks Susee for your advise.

I have heard that Strathclyde is having only disadvantge that is its location. Do you think that it will be really big constraint to grab a good job opportunity post MBA?

Regards,

Guys,

Any other suggestion. Quick response will be appreciated as i have accept the offer in this week.

Hi,
If I were you, I would go for strathclyde without any hesitation.
They are very keen at Strategy! and their program is very intensiv (16 modules + Project !!)
In Aston: 10 core + 2 electives, I think this isn't enough.
Don't worry about the location, Strathclyde is the best choise.

I wish all the best.

My friend graduated from Strathclyde, she did very good career in 5 years. It is under her influence I decided to do MBA. She told me that she chose Strathclyde purely because of location - she is Scottish and wanted to live in Glasgow, so she chose Strathclyde as the best MBA in Scotland for people with engineering background.
However, she strongly recommended me to apply to Bath, again purely because it is close and I can commute there daily. Bath MBA was very reputable in all organisations I worked for.
Never met anybody with Aston MBA though I suspect it is a good course.
Again opinion of my MBA friend - as long as you are in top 20(ish) MBA courses in the UK, you should be fine with finding a job.