Most US MBA programs are two years, hence the tuition is costly. The FT's top three US business schools, Wharton, Harvard and Colombia, all charge their MBA students more than $75,000 in total. Among Europe's top MBA programs, Spain's IE Business School is one of the most expensive with their $72,000 course - only takes a pacey 13-month to complete.France's HEC Paris, which is also ranked in the world's top 30, has a relatively reasonable $51,000 price-tag, while the world's eighth best MBA program, offered by China's CEIBS, can be completed for a bargain $45,000.
Elite French business school ESSEC is another competitive choice with tuition fees of $22,324 tuitions, and MBAs interested in the Asian market can study in the school's Singapore campus.
But if money is a problem, then Mexico seems to be the answer. After swine flu, a stampede of MBA students may be the last thing Mexico needs, but future business tycoons pay less than $20,000 to attend either ITESM-EGADE or IPADE, the country's top two b-schools.
That's the same price as some of the unaccredited online MBA available at the US that don't require GMAT or much else...
Student Reviews
The best intercultural university
There are more than 50 nationality in the grade, so there are opportunities to interact with people from all around the world. In terms of academics, the BBA course offers diverse courses for the 1st
Creativity, adaptability and entrepreneurship
The Master in Management program at the ESSEC Business School allows the students to choose their courses accordingly to their preferences and their professional targets. We can also go through international exchange and take part in internships with companies that are also partners with the school. The school is also next to the city of Paris.
Top business school in France
Doing PhD in essec took some time, to be precise about five years. But the experience was very good and cost effective too. There are opportunities for the student for teaching assistantship and that helps both financially and in career. In the final year I could manage to teach marketing to M1 students and this helped shape my career
Great college
The program is well suited for early professionals with an engineering degree preferably or a degree in economics. I would suggest taking the ceasure irrespective of the experience level as it helps you take your time to adjust to the job market.
Good school in France
I am currently enrolled in M2 in Essec business school. I am specialising in marketing management. The Grande Ecole programme is valued in France and my school ranks very high up. There are a lot of opportunities for internships and CDD.
The program curriculum
BBA program. The program is really practical and useful, provide us many international opportunities. Like internship and humanitarian experience, and the flexibility is also really cool, we can choose different campus and tracks as we want.
International Course
This school is very international and business oriented. Highly recognized by the companies The campus has been renovated and is very functional and modern from now on. Excellent atmosphere. Reputation of essec is a plus
Friends, Career opportunities.
The program I did gave me the opportunity to start in Singapore. I got the chance to know all the students that started there and we bonded and made some friends for life. The career opportunities that ESSEC also gave me were unbelievable.
Practical and useful
I think the best thing about Essec is that it's not focusing on academics rather it emphasizes on future job mindset and professional experiences..
The classes are interesting and we have plenty of workshops attributing to different sectors..
The campus is very nice with a good cafe and wonderful library.
The only problem is the location of the campus. It's quite far from Paris.
Amazing experience! Must try
I think its a very amazing school with great and experienced faculty. Also the alumni network is very solid and useful. The school has a great balance of studies and work experience which is really essential for a student.
