AMBA APPLICATION & ENROLMENT SURVEY
In terms of how courses were actually carried out, 58 per cent were taught in the classroom, 29 per cent were taught in a blended format and 13 per cent online. However, some notable individual cases remain: among business schools in China, 96 per cent of MBA programmes were intended to be delivered in the classroom, but only 58 per cent were ultimately taught this way, a difference of 38 percentage points. Applications & enrolments Globally, there was an average of 620 applications per business school and 168 applications per programme, representing an increase of four per cent and nine per cent respectively on last year’s figures. Each business school enrolled a global average of 176 students, with 48 students on each course. This represents a slight decrease on the equivalent figures for 2021, with no change in the average number of enrolments per programme. The highest number of applications per business school was in China, with an average of “The part-time MBA remained the most popular global format on offer in 2022”
1,530 applications received by each institution in 2022. North America & the Caribbean had the second-largest number per school, with an average of 1,149 applications. Schools in India had the highest number of applications per programme (592), followed by China (425). Turning to enrolment, institutions in China had the highest average number per school, with 360 enrolled students. North America & the Caribbean had the second-highest number, with 310 students on average. Business schools in India had the highest number of enrolments per programme with an average of 101 students, followed by China with an average of 100. Conversion & acceptance rates Conversion rates show the percentage of MBA applicants who accepted an offer of a place and ultimately enrolled on a business school programme. The global conversion rate among AMBA-accredited business schools in 2022 was 28 per cent. The highest conversion rates were in Asia & the Middle East at 45 per cent and Africa at 44 per cent. The lowest rates were in China (24 per cent) and the UK (16 per cent). Globally,
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Globally, there was an average of 620 applications per business school
In 2022, 42 per cent of applicants to MBA programmes offered by AMBA-accredited schools across the world were female, as were 41 per cen t of those who enrolled on these programmes
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