Older MBA students

Hello sir I want to know about the details of admission in MBA colleges of older students so please provide me suitable information about the same.

[Pathak]

The average age of incoming students at Harvard is 27, while at Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Kellogg, Columbia, Tuck, Haas, Michigan and UT Austin the average is 28.

The average years of pre-MBA work experience at these schools ranges from 4.6 years (NYU) to 5.5 years (Wharton).

And though the average years of work experience for Stanford’s Class of 2014 was at a decade-long high, the figure fell slightly for the Class of 2015, to 4 years.

European Business Schools Prefer Slightly Older MBA Students

In Europe the picture is only slightly different, with an average age of 28.6 at London Business School, and close to six years of work experience on average at INSEAD.

France’s HEC Paris and Switzerland’s IMD are the only top 20 schools with an average age of 30 or more.

Pretty much every school can point to more mature students in the MBA classroom.

While the age range at MIT Sloan and Tuck includes 37 year olds, and UCLA Anderson and Oxford Saïd both have students in their 40s,

Older applicants who can make a great case for why they need the MBA, have well-defined and realistic career goals

Opportunity Costs for The Paucity Of 30-Somethings

So why so few 30 –somethings in the full-time MBA classroom

In reality, full time MBA programs see relatively fewer applications from older applicants because this population is either opting out, or choosing part-time EMBA type programs.

With the exception of HBS, Stanford, and Tuck, all the top schools have an Executive MBA, and will often point more “seasoned” (MBA parlance for older) candidates applying to the full-time program in the direction of the school’s EMBA option.