INSEAD welcomes largest ever MBA class

26 January 2007

The incoming MBA class of January 2007 has broken INSEAD records. With

461 members, it is the largest ever MBA class – and includes 111

women and 133 participants of Asian nationality. We have also broken

records for the number of Nigerian, Japanese, Korean, Romanian and

Chilean participants (at 4, 20, 22, 7 and 4, respectively). The new

class is therefore also one of our most diverse ever. And with an

average GMAT score of 700, we continue to achieve diversity without

relaxing our requirements for excellence.

INSEAD is unusual among business schools in that it has two MBA

intakes per year for its 12-month programme. The new intake takes the

total number of participants enrolled to 887. Over recent years, we

have seen a significant trend towards the Asia-Pacific region – in

terms of participant nationality, country of residence at time of

application and location of first post-MBA job. This is a trend that

we expect to continue throughout 2007 and beyond.

The "upcoming class in January 2007" probably refers to Jan

2007 intake, i.e. my class.

We have the approximate total number and female students. But in terms of those figures for Korean, Japanese, Chilean, Romanian..... there is significant difference.

I also saw this article on INSEAD website, but had no idea how they performed the statistics. That's weird! : P

Ok, you mean more or less?

How about the number of us Chinese?

There are 15 Chinese students (Chinese passport) in the January

2007 intake. 11 in Fonty and 4 in Singapore.

Anyway, seems not bad for Asia-Pacific applicants.

nnm and lullaby, I hv only 2 yrs w.e. in China mainland by far,

and would lv to apply the INSEAD program around 2009/10.

Is that ideal w.e. yrs for this school?

Thanks in advance.