I have obtained un-con offer from Loughborough for a 2 years MBA, with 1 year intership, as well as a 1 year con-offer from Birmingham which requests to attend a pre-sessional English class.

The website information of Birmingham is more intensive but Loughborough is not, however Loughborough is triple-accredited for their business school.

There are no much information about the Loughborough MBA, as an overseas mature candidates with 10+ years of working experience, which course may be more promising?

What is the main difference between these 2 courses?

Well, the main difference is that after completing the MBA courses, Birmingham students go into employment and Loughborough students go into internships. Either way, you have to find the job/internship. The disadvantage of the internship is that it's less well paid; which is also the advantage - if you are insecure about your post-MBA value you can take a position at a lower than average page, or unpaid, and call it an internship.

Birmingham is certainly more promising: better students attract better employers.

There is no internship at Loughborough, you won't be able to find one I'm afraid.

What? They actually have an MBA program called "Full-Time MBA with Internship!"

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/programmes/departments/business-economics/full-time-mba-internship/

What I mean is that you won't be able to get any internship, its a fake marketing. The university doesn't help, and the recruiters don't recruit international students for one year jobs.

If you insist to do MBA with placement in the U.K just look for universities that have their own established and guaranteed placements for the students.

Loughborough MBA students as far as I know got their placements from some personal relations with one staff who was helping through her personal contact with some companies.

In the normal basis you won't find anything but a waste of time and money.

I find it hard to believe that a triple-accredited business school would advertise something that doesn't exist.

I think it's important to say that no school outside India can guarantee you an internship, no more than they can find you a job. What Loughborough's course can only be understood is that the two year option for people who are able to find an internship, and that it makes resources available to help. My guess is that at any European school some MBAs but not all are able to find internships. As a buyer, you need to have at least a minimum of diligence: ask them how what percentage of people with your background were able to find one.

[Edited by Duncan on Oct 29, 2014]

Hello,

I work for the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University and just wanted to clarify that the MBA with internship is not at all fake advertising. Of our 2014/15 cohort only one of the students failed to get a placement by October 2014. The reasons for this failure were complex and not for an open forum such as this.

Although it is your own responsibility to find your internship, you will be given help and guidance in sourcing one, especially from our specialised Work-Based Learning Director through workshops and skills sessions throughout the year. More details about how the internship works can be found at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/mba/programme/ways-to-study/

I hope this helps a little, and good luck with whichever MBA path you do decide to take.

Thanks,
Jade Wong

Marketing Assistant for School of Business and Economics