Hi All,

I am in the dilemma on which school to finalize. I have offer of MBA from Newcastle, Glasgow, Exeter, Sheffield, surrey, loughborough and nottingham. My ideas are colliding between Exeter and Nottingham. I also need to know which university have more industry connections and reputation. Also which one can give me the best ROI among these. Can anyone rate these MBA courses or prioritize it.

Thanks
Raghav Gupta

The school with the ROI is often not the one with the highest NPV. A small investment producing a small return will often have a better ROI than a big investment with a big return. I recommend that instead you consider the NPV of the options.

Newcastle and Nottingham are certainly the MBAs on your list with the best reputations.

Thanks for the reply Mr Dunkun.
So I can deduce that in terms of ROI, Glasgow=exeter= sheffield may be the good choices but for the highest NPV, Nottingham and then Newcastle may get better remarks. Please correct me if I made wrong conclusion.

In that case I will definitely choose Nottingham as cash inflow is not something I want to make a barrier in my career. I am really not into other collages like loughborough and surrey so removing those.

Also I had to retake my GMAT to improve my scores and because of that I applied to Lancaster, Aston, Durham and Bath very late ( just couple of days before). Do you think I am too late to get any offers from these collages. I am having around 4 years of experience only.

I think I might expect Exeter to be a little under Glasgow or Sheffield because of Exeter's focus on sustainability, which I think will pull down the average salaries.

The schools you have applied to late are all on a much higher level, especially Aston, Lancaster and Bath. I'm not sure what the quality of your GMAT or work experience is. I think Bath will be the one of these most likely to fill up by now. On May 9th I made a comment on Lancaster (see http://www.find-mba.com/board/34222 ) which was based on a comment by a current student there.

Oh, Well its a new finding for me as the research I did was showing Exeter alumni getting early jobs and better jobs than Sheffield and it was almost competing with Nottingham.

Well Looking at my profile. I am technical lead for past three years in leading IT MNC. I am Btech (3.71 GPA) and GMAT - 650. I have my fingers crossed for one more week else I have no choice but to join Nottingham.

Where did you find that placement information? I'm not even sure that there is a careers team in the business school at Exeter: you have to use the university's employability central team: http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/mbaatexeter/faqs/faq/?id=104

PS In contrast Nottingham Business School has at least a dedicated careers team for its graduate programmes: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/careers/postgraduatecareers/pcsindex.aspx It seems to have three staff: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4420643214

Thanks Mr Dunkun. I searched on this site which shows the QS top universities and i found out like this which started my dilemma a lot. For Exeter
http://www.topmba.com/institution/university-of-exeter-the-business-school

For Nottingham
http://www.topmba.com/institution/nottingham-university-business-school

Well but I can trust your saying instead of these websites.
Well no point on that as just now only I got offer from Durham too. So please let me know your take between Nottingham and Durham

That's obviously an error. Ask Exeter. There's no way their average salary was 90k. That's more than LBS.

Durham is very academic and, unlike Nottingham, has never been in the FT's top 100. I'd use LinkedIn to see which of them had a better network in the areas you want to work in.

Durham is very academic and, unlike Nottingham, has never been in the FT's top 100.

That would be a great help Mr Dunkun.

I agree Ralph, according to 2013 rank FT rankings, both are excluded from top 100. On the other hand Durham is on better ranking than Nottingham in The Economist and both are included in top 100. Still in a fix about what to choose.

Try this: http://www.find-mba.com/board/33571

Thanks Duncun. That post is really helpful.
I apologize for stretching this but just now I have gotten a conditional offer from Strathclyde (John Anderson Location). The condition only asks me to take a satisfactory interview and also asks me to accept or decline conditional offer. I guess now it will be a much easier decision for me and much more easier for you to help me.