Anastasia Georgiou, Director of Admissions at Melbourne Business School, discusses what makes the Melbourne MBA unique, the school’s admissions process, career opportunities and more.

Program Highlights (4:38) | Admissions (19:00) | Scholarships (31:20) | Careers (34:00)

About Our Guest

Anastasia Georgiou is Director of Admissions at Melbourne Business School. Anastasia has worked in higher education and admissions for over 20 years.

What is unique about the Melbourne MBA? What are its key advantages?

• Highest ranked Australian MBA by Financial Times, Economist and QS
• Offered Australia’s first MBA program starting in 1963. Melbourne Business School is 55% owned by Australia’s leading companies and 45% by the University of Melbourne
• Melbourne was ranked the world's most livable city for 18 years straight and is the multicultural capital of Australia
• MBA can be completed in 1 or 2 years
• Well-known for marketing and finance, and has recently set up Centres for Business Analytics and Sustainability & Business
• Prides itself in offering a high-touch MBA experience for 40 students/year

Episode summary, show notes and more at: https://touchmba.com/melbourne-mba-program-admissions-interview-anastasia-georgiou

Do you have to quit your job to get your MBA? Darren invites Chris Healy from Alliance Manchester Business school to share how the part-time / professional MBA has evolved with new technology and student and employer demands. If you're unsure about getting an online, blended, part-time or Executive MBA, you'll get key insights from this episode.

Questions

• How the part-time / professional MBA has evolved over the past 15 years (2:30)
• How employers view part-time / professional MBAs (15:50)
• Networking at b-school as a part-time / professional MBA (21:35)
• The quality of online courses (27:20)
• How do business schools with multiple campuses maintain quality of faculty? (33:25)
• The advantages of dual-MBAs (37:00)
• Grades, format, and commitment required of a typical Manchester MBA part-time course held over 6 months (40:35)
• The future of part-time / professional MBAs (47:20)

About Our Guest

Chris Healy is Head of MBA Marketing & Recruitment for Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. Chris has been in the business education industry for nearly 15 years and got his Bachelors in Consumer Marketing from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Episode summary, show notes and more at: http://touchmba.com/the-evolving-professional-mba-chris-healy

Inspired by the Harvard Business Review article Experience Doesn’t Predict a New Hire’s Success, Darren shares how you can demonstrate you're a great fit for your target MBA programs - or your next employer - even if you're short on experience. If you feel like you lack relevant work experience for the MBA, this episode is for you.

Show Notes

• Experience Doesn’t Predict a New Hire’s Success (Harvard Business Review)

Episode summary, show notes and more at: http://touchmba.com/experience-does-not-equal-performance/

Guest Host Sabaina Kamara, Michigan Ross MBA '19, invites her friend and classmate Kashay Sanders to share her experience as a first year MBA student at the Ross School of Business.

Listen to get a real-time, inside look into the "MBA1" experience at a top b-school like Ross.

Questions

• Kashay's background (3:32)
• First year internships and student activities (4:59)
• Reflections on the "MBA1" year and lessons learned (6:58)
• Multidisciplinary Action Project (MAP) at Ross (10:54)
• Dealing with imposter syndrome when switching industries/functions (16:16)
• First year summer plans (17:50)
• Healthy team dynamics at business school and getting to know classmates  (20:47)
• MTreks (26:34)
• Kashay's Vision for Ross as President of the MBA Council (27:59)
• Kashay's advice to MBA applicants (31:10)

About our Guest Host

Sabaina Kamara is currently an MBA student at the Ross School of Business. Prior to starting her MBA, Sabaina worked in as an HR Analyst at a management and employment law firm, focusing on HR compliance for diversity and inclusion. Sabaina is interested in pursuing a career as a strategy consultant post MBA. Sabaina will be interning at Deloitte Strategy & Operations in New York City this summer.

About Our Guest

Kashay Sanders is committed to building healthy workplace cultures to help people, and organizations, operate at their best. Prior to Ross, Kashay worked within the international development, government and nonprofit sectors, leading and designing programs aimed at gender equity, workforce development, neighborhood safety and ending homelessness. Kashay graduated from Dartmouth College in 2011, with a B.A. in Women's & Gender Studies and minors in Anthropology and Japanese. As an MBA student at Ross, Kashay is President of the MBA Council, a +Lab Fellow, and active member of the Human Capital Club. Kashay will be joining Microsoft this summer within the HR Trax Rotational Program in Seattle, WA.

Episode summary, show notes and more at: http://touchmba.com/michigan-ross-mbas-reflect-on-their-first-year-discuss-the-journey-ahead