It is now nearly 3 weeks since I landed in Madrid.
Having worked in London for the last 7 years, I never really thought that I would come to this wonderful city of Madrid to do my MBA program. Now after spending few days in the city and after some exceptional first impressions of the college, I am glad that I took a break in my career and came all the way to do a 1 year MBA.
IE Business School is known for it's continous standing in the World's Top 10 Biz Schools Rankings and that has been a major factor behind my decision to come here. Looking at the criteria of the Rankings, one would get an idea of the facilities of the school and other academic parameters. But still, I was really curious until I got here and attended the classes on Day 1.
I was curious to see what makes it stand apart from the rest of the Biz Schools?
I am a great fan of Financial Times and followed FT Business School Rankings for a long time. So, I was curious to see in person the various facets of the school that got Rank 6 from FT in worldwide rankings for a 2nd year, in a row!!
Well, I now understand.
We kicked off with an Opening Day ceremony on April 13. We had 2 days of Orientatio.
This is all just usual stuff, anywhere it's pretty much the same.
Yes, but then we had the real LAUNCH - a 10 day program covering a wide range of topics - World Awareness Seminars, Team Building, Communication, Soft skills, Networking and CV writing.
CV writing? In the first week of MBA itself, well, 1 year intensive MBA goes by pretty fast and it is never too soon to tidy up your CV and put it in the school's CV Book. After all, I want handsome returns on my hefty investment in to the MBA program!!
As Eric, our MBA program Director said, the LAUNCH program is a gentle launch pad to us newcomers into the next 12/13 months of intensive MBA program.
Having concluded the LAUNCH program today, I now have a very good understanding of the Quality, Challenge and Rigour of the year ahead and I am very much looking forward to it.
I would like to write more about the LAUNCH program itself and the DIVERSITY of the IE Community, but those are for later posts.
Having worked in London for the last 7 years, I never really thought that I would come to this wonderful city of Madrid to do my MBA program. Now after spending few days in the city and after some exceptional first impressions of the college, I am glad that I took a break in my career and came all the way to do a 1 year MBA.
IE Business School is known for it's continous standing in the World's Top 10 Biz Schools Rankings and that has been a major factor behind my decision to come here. Looking at the criteria of the Rankings, one would get an idea of the facilities of the school and other academic parameters. But still, I was really curious until I got here and attended the classes on Day 1.
I was curious to see what makes it stand apart from the rest of the Biz Schools?
I am a great fan of Financial Times and followed FT Business School Rankings for a long time. So, I was curious to see in person the various facets of the school that got Rank 6 from FT in worldwide rankings for a 2nd year, in a row!!
Well, I now understand.
We kicked off with an Opening Day ceremony on April 13. We had 2 days of Orientatio.
This is all just usual stuff, anywhere it's pretty much the same.
Yes, but then we had the real LAUNCH - a 10 day program covering a wide range of topics - World Awareness Seminars, Team Building, Communication, Soft skills, Networking and CV writing.
CV writing? In the first week of MBA itself, well, 1 year intensive MBA goes by pretty fast and it is never too soon to tidy up your CV and put it in the school's CV Book. After all, I want handsome returns on my hefty investment in to the MBA program!!
As Eric, our MBA program Director said, the LAUNCH program is a gentle launch pad to us newcomers into the next 12/13 months of intensive MBA program.
Having concluded the LAUNCH program today, I now have a very good understanding of the Quality, Challenge and Rigour of the year ahead and I am very much looking forward to it.
I would like to write more about the LAUNCH program itself and the DIVERSITY of the IE Community, but those are for later posts.
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