The Columbia Business School MBA Program instills in students a complete entrepreneurial mindset and teaches students to recognize opportunity and provides the skills to take full advantage of it.

The Columbia MBA focuses on offering tools that prepare students to lead and manage in today’s ever-changing business landscape, provides a distinctive business school education that is a blend of cutting-edge research and industry practice that gives students precisely the right classroom for unlimited professional and personal development. Columbia is one of the most selective business schools in the world. A Columbia MBA lets the business world know that its graduates are indeed a rare find. The School is committed to providing students with an education that lasts, and evolves, over a lifetime.

Summary

Location: New York, NY, U.S.

Duration: 2 years

Fees: US$ 94,104

2008 MBA Ranking (FT): 3

2008 MBA Ranking (BW, U.S.): 7

Website: http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/mba
Essay Questions

Programme beginning: January or September 2009

1. What is your relationship to, and how long have you known the applicant? Is this person still employed by your organization? If not, when did he/she depart?

2. Please provide a short list of adjectives describing the applicant’s strengths, and please compare the applicant’s performance to that of his or her peers.

3. Please comment on the applicant’s growth during his/her employment with you and on his or her ability to work with others, including superiors, peers, and subordinates.

4. In what ways could the applicant improve professionally? How does he/she accept constructive criticism?

5. Comment on your observations of the applicant’s ethical behavior.

6. What do you think motivates the candidate’s application to the MBA program at Columbia Business School?

7. If you could change one thing about the applicant, what would it be?

8. Are there any other matters which you feel we should know about the applicant?