The Class of 2018 at Oxford Said Business School boasts of the highest female representation at 41% of the total 334 students, much more than the London Business School or Cambridge Judge at 39% each.
In terms of the number of nations represented, there was another fall from 58 in the previous year to 51, though the current class has 60 nationalities. International students form 92% of the class.
The Class of 2018 has an average GMAT score of 685 and the median at 690, lower than the 692 average and 700 median of the previous batch. The average age is 28 years. The students have an average 5 years work experience.
North Americans form the largest chunk at 28% with only 12% from Western Europe. Other regions with a double-digit presence in the class are East Asia (13%), Africa (11%), and South Asia (10%). The rest comprise Southeast Asia (9%), Australia & New Zealand (6%) and Latin America & the Caribbean (5%).
The Class of 2018 has an average GMAT score of 685 and the median at 690, lower than the 692 average and 700 median of the previous batch. The average age is 28 years. The students have an average 5 years work experience.
In the professional background, 21% of the class come from Diversified Industries followed by Finance 20%, Consulting 18% and Technology 6% to name a few.
Apart from the statistics, it is the diversity of students in the class that makes it a happening place. There is Yogan Appalsamy, who grew up in South Africa in the 1990s, at a time when the repressive apartheid regime was replaced by a fledgeling democracy. He says he has managed, to embark on a career in investment banking, working career at top international banks and travelling all over the world before enrolling in the MBA program.
Eva Hoffmann, who graduated from Stanford says that she is a ‘sustainability-obsessed designer’ who dreams of poverty eradication. Her achievements as a design director include developing the A1 solar lamp, that costs just $5 aimed at saving poor families in rural areas up to 20% of their annual incomes.
Barati Mahloele wants to specialise in Finance and then go back to Africa to introduce disruptive business models to increase access, opportunities and social mobility for the people. Another student, Sidhya Senani, is the founder of a children’s school based on egalitarian decision-making.