BGA | BUSINESS IMPACT
MBA-accredited Business Schools received a larger volume of applications for their master’s in business management (MBM) programmes, on average, as many upped
the number of programmes on offer between 2019 and 2020, according to new and exclusive data from AMBA & BGA.
Changes to admissions numbers, 2019-20 Although the number of applications to individual MBM programmes fell by 7% between 2019 and 2020, there was a 5% increase in the number of MBM applications per Business School, indicating that larger volumes of applications were spread across a greater number of programmes. Indeed, the number of MBM programmes offered by responding Business Schools worldwide in 2020 was 13% higher than in 2019. This increase might help to explain why, for example, applications per MBM programme available among Business Schools in India were down by 12%, yet the total number of applications received by each School in the south Asian country were up by an average of 4%. Globally, the uptick in programme options appears to have generated a greater number of applications from prospective students in a year marked by the impact of Covid-19, although these changes were more pronounced in some regions than others. In Europe
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(excluding the UK), for example, MBM applications per School were up 17% in 2020 and, among Business Schools in the UK, the rise was 23%. Regardless of the number of programmes on offer, the growing ranks of MBM students
worldwide are demonstrated by the increase in the number of those enrolling onto programmes in 2020. Not only did enrolments per Business School (which encompasses their increase in programme number) rise – by 21% worldwide – but so too did the average number of students that enrolled on each individual programme, by 8%. MBM enrolments per programme were up by a regional high of 26% in Europe (excluding the UK).
‘The growing ranks of MBM students worldwide are demonstrated by the increase in the number of those enrolling’
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