Can someone please help me in understanding the following?
1. Henley MBA has a good UK and International reputation, triple accreditation and large alumini network. However it doesn't feature in Financial times ranking this year and in the past as well.
2. How is the job placement record of this school nationally and internationally?
3. What is NEW about Henley MBA(full time) as mentioned on the website apart from the campus being in Reading now?

This is a totally new programme. Henley previously ran executive MBAs for senior managers. There will be no ranks or employment data because this is the first intake.

Hi Duncan,
If this is a totally new programme, does it mean that it doesn't have triple accreditation, there won't be an alumni network and it won't have the goodwill of Old Business school as far as employers are concerened.Is it worth going for this program.

The henley MBA is the same across all the study modes, so the programme is accredited, Of course Henley is a very old school, so it has a great alumni network. It's just that this programme, a full-time MBA aimed at 20-something students with a 640-plus GMAT, is new.

I think it's good value for money, but it's only the right choice if it's the best programme you can get into.

In my opinion, "triple accreditation" is virtually meaningless. As long as a program has at least one or two of the three major international accreditation bodies, that's all that matters. (As long as it has good support and career services networks, and it works within your career arc, of course.)

But saying a school like Henley is better than say Oxford or Cambridge simply because it has three accreditations, is folly.

I don't think anyone said triple accreditation makes a school better than Oxbridge. But on average the outcomes from triple accredited schools are better than those with just one.

Hi Duncan,
As you said in another thread that the FT ranking is important as far as job placement is concerned. Henley MBA doesn't feature in FT Global ranking. What is your opinion about job placement and career services of Henley Business school.Henley was providing MBA(full time) before in the Thames campus.The course,I think is not new but the campus has changed. Please correct me if I am wrong. I am looking for reviews of MBA(full time) in old campus.
Also, What would you prefer between Henley AND Lancaster?
Thanks

Well, ranking is produced by placement, rather than the other way around.

The full-time executive MBA at Greenlands was quite unique. It was an MBA aimed at older executives, a little like the Sloan fellowship, rather than at students in their 20s. The content might have been similar, but the pedagogy will be quite different. It's not just the campus that has changed.

I would choose Lancaster over Henley: the first year of any new programme will be difficult. Why take the risk?