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COVID-19 Information: Please check the end of this section

How Will Covid-19 Affect My Application?

There are a number of changes to INSEAD’s international campuses because of the COVID-19 virus.

Online teaching has started for the MBA program. The second week of the GEMBA Europe module will be rescheduled when in-person instruction is available. GEMBA participants are advised to return to their country of residence ASAP.

Executive Education programs taking place at the Europe Campus until 17 April 2020 are cancelled.

Following San Francisco’s Shelter in Place order, INSEAD’s San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation’s programs are on hold until further notice.

Until further notice, all MBA campus exchanges are cancelled. This is in response to government regulations and government-imposed closed borders. Given the current state of the COVID-19 crisis, our advice to MBA students is to stay where you are.

Asia Campus Residences will continue to operate as usual. Europe Campus Residences will be closed until further notice.

The business school has created new online events including Info Sessions, Panels, 121s, application workshops and registrations for the first Online Masterclasses will open soon.

As one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools, INSEAD brings together people, cultures and ideas to change lives and to transform organisations. We have more than 1,000 participants annually in our suite of master programmes: MBA, Executive MBA, Master in Management and specialised Master’s degrees (Executive Master in Finance, Executive Master in Change, and the dual-degree Tsinghua-INSEAD Executive MBA). All programmes offer a global perspective and cultural diversity that prepare our graduates to excel and succeed in their careers anywhere in the world.

COVID19 information:

As the business school for the world, INSEAD has been on its toes since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. With campuses in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, it is imperative that we provide a quick global response with the health and wellbeing of our community as a top priority. We immediately took action to protect students, faculty and staff starting with our Asia Campus and then other campuses as the crisis unfolded. We communicated those actions and the latest government regulation to ensure everyone can take their own steps to stay safe.

When it became clear that mobility restrictions were necessary, INSEAD rapidly moved to online teaching and faculty are integrating their teaching topics and COVID-19. To give leaders insight into how a health crisis can impact business, we are curating expertise from different angles of business research and publishing relevant articles on our INSEAD Knowledge platform. INSEAD faculty have extensive expertise on humanitarian response and healthcare, which we put into the public domain to guide leaders. We are also launching a series of open webinars on navigating the COVID-19 crisis. As a school, we want to lead by example and approach every moment with academic perspective. So as we move our global workforce to remote work, we provide daily mindfulness sessions to keep people healthy and connected. We are also soliciting data from remote workers to better understand the implications of this level of remote work. And we are supporting our alumni community on-the-ground responses through our Project GreenCross.