This is the best business school in the world

Students of the Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School do not mind admitting that those who study there are called to occupy management positions of the most powerful companies in the world or the offices of the most important political office. In his speech appear alumni names as Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, or Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook. What they do not talk about is money. If you ask them how much they will earn, usually they shy away from the subject. It is almost a taboo subject.

However, it is that future wage what makes this MBA is considered the best in the world. The Global MBA Ranking 2014, the British newspaper Financial Times, which places the Harvard MBA in the first position, provides 40% of the score to the salary they earn after completing two years. According to this meter, graduates will enter about $ 178,300 a year on average (163 652 euros), a 113% more than they did before passing through the campus of Cambridge (Boston).

“It’s not a matter of pitch. To access the senior management of large corporations need an MBA. Pass through here opens doors, but if your profile does not fit them, companies have no mercy, “said Fatima Madrid Porras, industrial engineer at ICAI-ICADE of 27 years and a student of first year MBA from Harvard Business School where 41% of students are women.

It’s a March afternoon, just start the Spring Break (Spring Break) and the campus is little movement; some students who spend the last hours chatting in the common spaces before leaving their country of origin or to some exotic destination. HBS five Spanish students sit around a table and elegant historic building Spangler to tell how they have come to the best business school in the world, where only 9% of applicants get it.

The average profile of the student of HBS is a 27 year old with four years of work experience. No matter their economic status, but his leadership. This is one of the premises of the school. In the 2013-2014 course, 47% of students benefited from grant programs totaling $ 28 million, according to its latest annual report. Of the 10,000 applications received, the first screen the number of candidates down to 1,800, after going through a personal interview stood at 900 of 60 nationalities (35% of students are international). Unlike most business schools where these tests alumni make at HBS are made by the admissions board. Currently they enrolled in the master 16 Spaniards.

Entry requirements:

1- Preparing the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test). The maximum score is 800, the average score of people applying is 700.

2- Certificate English TOEFL. A minimum score of 109 is required.

3- Application online.

4- Two letters of recommendation (labor and academic).

5- Essay: unlimited open question text on a specific issue.

The five who have agreed to lose a few hours of their anticipated vacation to chat with this paper have one thing in common: the companies in which they work, all international consultants, support them financially to cover the costs of the MBA, a total of 112 350 dollars for two years (about 105,000 euros). “Here you are from very poor families profiles the son of the CEO of a multinational front row is known amazing people. In class still surprises me how bright they are few, “says Lluís Mateo, sophomore 27 sharing classroom with a former economic adviser to the Obama campaign team.