Get Into INSEAD, the Business School for the World

In this episode the Associate Global Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at INSEAD discusses the school’s unique language requirement, the role of the GRE/GMAT in admissions, and what to include in the optional essay. [SHOW SUMMARY]Are you a citizen of the world? Is it your goal to be a leader in international business? Then you should consider the Business School for the World: INSEAD. An interview with INSEAD’s Teresa Peiro, Associate Director of Global Admissions, Degree Programmes. [SHOW NOTES]Welcome to the 520th episode of Admission Straight Talk, Accepted podcast. Thanks for tuning in. Sometimes I am asked, "Is the MBA worth it?" And my answer is, "It depends on your individual circumstances." But I've got good news. We've developed a tool that will help you evaluate whether an MBA is worth it for you and your individual circumstances and by how much. Check how much you're likely to benefit - or not - from the MBA. And using it won't set you back even one cent. It's free.It gives me great pleasure to have for the first time on Admissions Straight Talk. Teresa Piero, Associate Director of Global Admissions and Financial Aid at INSEAD, the Business School for the World. Teresa worked in marketing for several years before joining INSEAD in 2011. She focused more on MBA programs initially, but in 2021 became the Associate Director of Global Admissions and oversees the entire admissions process for all INSEAD degree programs on all campuses including the EMBA, which is going to be our focus today. Teresa, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [1:52]Thank you very much, Linda, for having me here today.My pleasure. Now can you give us just a start, an overview of INSEAD's MBA program for those listeners who aren't that familiar with it? [1:57]Yes, of course. Linda, our MBA program is a 10-month program that brings together around 100 nationalities per cohort. You can either start in January or in the August intake. It's a very intense program. It's shorter, but our participants make the most out of it and we commonly hear all of our alumni saying that it was the best year of their lives.How do most students take advantage of that geographic diversity? If it was 10 months in Fontainebleau the whole time, that would already be intense. But if you have all these other options, how do they do it? [2:40]Indeed. So, our applicants have to make a decision of which will be their home campus. So what are the core courses? They will have to stay in their home campus. After that when the electives start, they can either change campuses, so if someone starts in Singapore, they can go to Fontainebleau and vice versa. And then we offer different partnerships, as you mentioned, with different schools in the US and China. So what happens is that they can go to that school while they're, say, in that school, they are full students from the welcoming school and they spend their period there and then they come back to INSEAD-So, where are the three campuses again? I know it's Fontainebleau, Singapore, and the third one- [3:31] There are three campuses. Fontainebleau, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. And we opened pre COVID San Francisco hub.So it's not considered a full campus yet, is it? [3:43]No, it's a hub.Where are the partnerships? [3:49]The partnerships are with Kellogg and Wharton in the US and with SIPS in China.When you talk about your home campus, how much time are you required to spend there? What do most students do? Or is there a most? [3:56]So there's not statistically something consistent. They have to stay for the core courses. So fo

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