included the addition of options enquiring as to Schools’ ‘intended mode of delivery’ and ‘most-used mode of delivery’ for MBA programmes. These updates allowed Schools to demonstrate the way the programme was intended to be taught, and the mode of delivery that was ultimately used. The full report is available on the AMBA website (at www.associationofmbas.com/ research) but over the following pages we have shared some of the key findings to demonstrate how the MBA programme at Schools in the AMBA network weathered the storm of the pandemic in 2020. Programme delivery Globally, programmes were most likely to be delivered in a part-time format (66%) followed by full-time (19%) and then modular (16%). However, this varies widely by region. For example, while 76% of programmes offered in Latin America were offered on a part-time basis, only 33% of programmes in India were part-time. The full-time format, meanwhile, was most commonly on offer in India (42%) followed by North America and the Caribbean (37%). Modular programmes, which have content delivered in concentrated periods, were most common in Africa (52%) and Asia and the Middle East (42%).
Globally, 76% of MBA teaching was intended to be classroom-based, with 13% of programmes intended to be taught using blended delivery and 11% online. Yet, the disruption caused by the events of 2020 meant that only 29% of courses were ultimately carried out in a classroom. Instead, a further 29% were taught using a blended method, and the remaining 41% of courses were carried out online. India was the region which showed the most significant turn to online teaching, with the format rising by 58 percentage points between intended and most used mode of delivery. Oceania was the only region in which the proportion of programmes taught online was unchanged between intended and most-used delivery methods. However, the proportion of blended teaching methods in Oceania did rise by six percentage points at the expense of classroom teaching. Applications and enrolments Globally, there was an increase in the number of applicants at both School- and programme- level between 2019 and 2020, while enrolments remained consistent. The average number of applications received globally by each programme increased from 153 in 2019 to 167 in 2020. At School-level, the number of
into the progress of providers of high-quality management education and the health of the sector. This year, our research spans 238 Business Schools that ran MBA programmes in 2020. In total, 907 MBA programmes were run in the 2020 calendar year (compared with 879 in 2019) and is the largest piece of research AMBA has carried out into accredited MBA applications and enrolments in its 54-year history. The research is broken into two parts with the first providing a snapshot of the composition of 238 AMBA-accredited Schools that ran an MBA in 2020 and participated in the study. This explores their application, enrolment, and programme delivery trends. Any ‘trends-over- time’ data within this sample of Schools may reflect differences in the Schools participating and the evolving profile of the AMBA network, rather than definitive changes in demand. The second part offers trends of 216 Business Schools which participated both in the current study and its equivalent last year. This part of the report therefore offers a comparative year-on-year analysis of 2020 and 2019 cohorts for a large sample of AMBA-accredited Schools. In light of the fact many Schools have had to pivot to teaching online due to Covid-19, this year, the data sheet sent to Schools
The volume of applications received by each Business School increased by an average of 7% from 2019 to 2020
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