Now’s the Time to Put in Applications for MBA Programs 2017-18

Planning to apply for MBA programs at top B-schools? The deadlines for the 2017-18 season are spread over the next few months from July. Since most of the schools have wound up admissions for 2017, you could be an early bird for the next batch starting in 2018.  

The deadline for January 2018 intake at INSEAD is almost over with only round 4 on July 26 remaining with interview decision notification on August 25 and final decision notification on September 29. For September 2018 intake (class of July 2019) Round 1 deadline on September 20, Round 2 deadline on November 29, Round 3 on January 24, 2018, and Round 4 on March 7, 2018.

NYU Stern’s round 1 deadline is October 15 along with ISB. University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business has a round 1 deadline on October 31. Goizueta will have round 2 deadline on November 17.

The Lausanne, Switzerland-based IMD has the fourth deadline coming up on August 1 and the fifth on September 1 for the batch starting in January 2018. The applicants will receive status confirmation and invitations to the assessment day in 3-6 weeks after submission of the application forms. The assessment day will be within one month of invitations and confirmation of admissions decision will be two weeks after assessment.

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For University of Cambridge Judge Business School, applications for the Class of 2018-19 will open on July 1, 2017. Round 1 deadline is September 8, Round 2 October 27, Round 3 on January 5, 2018, Round 4 on March 9 and Round 5 on May 4, 2018.

Said Business School at the University of Oxford is yet to publish Application deadlines for the MBA Class of 2018/9. However, going by the schedule in the previous year, for stage 1, applications are to be submitted by September 9 for which the interview decision will be available by September 23 and the final decision on October 14. Stage 2 application deadline will be October 28 with interview decision by November 18 and final decision by December 9.

Stage 3 application deadline will be on January 6, interview decision by January 27 and final decision by March 3. For Stage 4, the application deadline will be March 17, interview decision by April 7 and final decision by April 28.

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Stage 5 has the application deadline on May 5, interview decision by May 19 and final decision on June 9. Stage 6 has the application deadline on June 9, interview decision by June 23 and final decision on July 7.

HEC Paris has the third round deadline on July 1 with decision date on July 28, fourth round deadline on August 15 with the decision on September 15. The application deadline for the fifth round will be on September 15 and decision on October 13. The sixth round applications deadline will be on October 15 and final decision on November 17.

Moving over to the US, Harvard Business School (HBS) has Round 1 deadline on September 6 and decision on December 12, round 2 0n January 3 with the decision on March 21 and Round 3 deadline on April 2 and Round 4 deadline on May 9.

Yale SoM has a round one deadline on September 13. Six days later on September 19, Wharton has round one deadline while UC Berkeley Haas round one closes on September 21 along with Chicago Booth. Michigan Ross has set a round one deadline of October 2 while Columbia Business School has early decision (August 2018 entry) on October 4 along with Dartmouth Tuck and Carnegie Mellon Tepper (round 1). On October 6, Emory Goizueta has round 1 deadline along with UCLA Anderson.

NYU Stern’s round 1 deadline is October 15 along with ISB. University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business has a round 1 deadline on October 31. Goizueta will have round 2 deadline on November 17.(Image Source:Pixabay)