Hi ...

I want to have MBA degree from good and accredited MBA bushiness school in UK ...(Full time and preferably no GMAT required )

im a pharmacist and have almost 9 years experience in sales and marketing from the middle east region

Please advice ???

Take the GMAT. It's not hard to get a score of 600 or so, and that will combine with your work experience to get you into a great programme.

Thanks for your reply ....well, im planning to return back once i get the MBA degree but as per your answer it seems the GMAT will enforce my experience more although the feedback i got on GMAT is not easy to pass !!!!..

Please advice which business school with affordable tuition fees (15-20K) can provide such a great FT MBA program with good accommodation plus good city to live in( outside London) ?


Thanks

I suggest you read http://www.find-mba.com/board/29785 and then also look at http://www.mastersportal.eu/students/search-results/?params=LY5bDoMwDATv4hMQ6IvlMCgtFopUEslxqiLE3esUPne8O7LHA1tGDxKeQ4pjmGgIcEPGDZQkzCHSEWKKzL4G14BeqUSV9ex3jeE7SEtQs1TUXq79SSeehTnT4OGw2clwB1qeZttN11qliK_LcfHf_wO14xwoa5nWMasXrfsG27nwb2WJNvoc5nrZfw%253D%253Dzd323c85c&start=10&length=10&order_by=tuition_noneea&order_direction=desc

Birmingham, Surrey and Newcastle come to mind.

I do appreciate your advice ...i can see they don't require GMAT for the enrollment
which universities in UK you recommend that require good score of GMAT (accredited and in good city) ???

Thanks

These would be above your budget, generally. The UK schools which use the GMAT are:
Ashridge Business School
Bradford University
Cranfield School of Management
Imperial College London
Judge Business School
London Business School
London School of Economics and Political Science
Manchester Business School
Nottingham University Business School
Said Business School
University of Edinburgh Business School
Warwick Business School

I would agree that you should at least try your hand at the GMAT. Schools that require GMAT are more competitive, but with these schools your post-graduation salary will be better, you'll have a better networking, better career services support, etc.

My list of FT ranked schools in the UK that are close to your budget:

Bradford, £22,450
Edinburgh, £15,300
Birmingham, £19,000

If you can boost your budget a bit, you can also consider these:

Durham, £25,000
Aston, £24,700
Lancaster, £26,000

I would agree that you should at least try your hand at the GMAT. Schools that require GMAT are more competitive, but with these schools your post-graduation salary will be better, you'll have a better networking, better career services support, etc.

My list of FT ranked schools in the UK that are close to your budget:

Bradford, £22,450
Edinburgh, £15,300
Birmingham, £19,000

If you can boost your budget a bit, you can also consider these:

Durham, £25,000
Aston, £24,700
Lancaster, £26,000

The University of Edinburgh Business School has changed massively in four years: a new building, triple-accreditation, and the school has doubled in size. It gets around eight applicants for every place in the masters programme. Its MBA seems like a bargain when you consider that its MSc in finance is £26,350. That's a very small premium for a very high-quality school, now in the top ten UK schools according to Eduniversal. Considering its graduates' average salary of $89k with the Bradford MBA's $68k, I'd say that Bradford is starting to look rather over-priced.

The University of Edinburgh Business School has changed massively in four years: a new building, triple-accreditation, and the school has doubled in size. It gets around eight applicants for every place in the masters programme. Its MBA seems like a bargain when you consider that its MSc in finance is £26,350. That's a very small premium for a very high-quality school, now in the top ten UK schools according to Eduniversal. Considering its graduates' average salary of $89k with the Bradford MBA's $68k, I'd say that Bradford is starting to look rather over-priced.

As far as I see, GMAT may not be a strict requirement to join a quality MBA, particularly in the UK. For example, according to their website, Durham does not "require" a GMAT in all cases. What I understand from their statements is that they "may require" a GMAT to compansate for some other "required" qualifications, when necessary.
The same applies for Lancaster.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/business/programmes/mba/full-time/

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/study/mba/ftmba/apply/entry/

As far as I see, GMAT may not be a strict requirement to join a quality MBA, particularly in the UK. For example, according to their website, Durham does not "require" a GMAT in all cases. What I understand from their statements is that they "may require" a GMAT to compansate for some other "required" qualifications, when necessary.
The same applies for Lancaster.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/business/programmes/mba/full-time/

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/study/mba/ftmba/apply/entry/

These are huge universities and major employers go there for milk round recruitment. England is pretty small and all rail links go to London in just a few hours. It's also worth looking at Best schools for international students' placement http://www.find-mba.com/board/41143 and the FT rankings. Durham and Lancaster are in the top third for international mobility, above City University London, IE and UCD (all of which are in capital cities). These good outcomes show that major MBA employers are not limited to central London schools (and, indeed, while 37% of MBAs in the UK are in London, that still means most are not). Reading, Manchester and Edinburgh are also notable centres - and Lancaster and Durham are well located for those last two. The high concentration of students who want to take MBA programmes in and around London also means there's a lot of competition with the talented international job seekers who also focus on that city.

[Edited by Duncan on Jan 13, 2016]

I was actually just reading this article:

http://find-mba.com/articles/beyond-london-mba-programs-in-england

"Indeed, each region of the country offers different types of businesses and industries. Chris Saunders, the director of the full-time MBA program at Lancaster University Management School, says that a good deal of the industry around Lancaster is made up of energy firms and infrastructure, due to the fact that there are two nuclear power plants in the area. Also, the defense contractor BAE Systems is nearby, and its presence has spawned a whole network of smaller suppliers in the area."

I know it's not London, but a place like Lancaster is probably similar to a lot of other parts of England, in that there are economic strengths as well as weaknesses. Of course, London has a very strong financial sector and a diverse range of other industries, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the country has nothing to offer in terms of employment opportunities.