Top Tips for Executive MBA Candidates

Sometimes it can be hard to find the time to browse through websites looking for the information you need. Wouldn’t it make life a whole lot easier, not to mention help with your time management, if the news came to you? Well it does – in the form of the QS TopExecutive quarterly newsletter. Each edition has the latest news and features on Executive MBA admissions advice, career trends, alumni interviews and regional developments affecting EMBA applicants, students, and alumni. You can sign up here.

A number of factors may be racing around in your head while you’re considering an Executive MBA: the cost of tuition fees and travel, time away from the workplace, family sacrifices, the extra workload, the extra stress! Don’t be put off. These are obstacles that every EMBA candidate faces – and every EMBA alum overcomes! The admissions directors of business schools around the globe also acknowledge these as major challenges for potential EMBA candidates, so they’ve provided you with some top tips to deal with them.

QS Top Executive has its very own Facebook page, bringing you updates on EMBA programs, interesting articles on EMBA issues, videos of real live business school classrooms and the complete A-Z of the Executive MBA. It’s a handy tool if you’re considering studying for an Executive MBA, so ‘like’ us today!

The festive season brings with it lots of rich, indulgent and sugary food and no matter how good it tastes, it’s not really all that good for us. Studying for an Executive MBA will challenge your brain, so stock the shelves with food that will help you think. Read our list of brain foods for business executives.

What better way to spend the festive season than curled up with a good book. And now that the Harry Potter series has finished (we know you loved it), you may be looking for a recommendation. Well, what better recommendation of a good read than from business school admissions directors themselves? For interesting insight into new management practices, leadership skills, decision making techniques and your own personal career plan, check out these top reading recommendations.

To coincide with the QS World Executive MBA Tour, the team here at QS Top Executive puts together the QS Top Executive Guide with articles and information on the latest trends in the industry. There’s expert comment on EMBA finance, the application process, employment issues and the must have technology for the EMBA classroom, as well as detailed profiles of all the business schools that travel with the Tour. The Spring 2012 edition comes out in February, but if you can’t wait that long, check out a past edition today.

Don’t keep it a secret! Tell everyone about your desire to study for an Executive MBA. The more people you tell, the more people you’ll have to answer to. But it’s also a way to widen your support network so when that first day in the business school classroom rolls around, you’ll have plenty of people wishing you well.