UBC Sauder School of Business

The 16-month Master of Business Administration (MBA) full-time program at UBC Sauder School of Business Robert H. Lee Graduate School is a great option for high-achieving, determined professionals to take their profession to the next level. The UBC Sauder MBA will motivate your mind, grant you fresh viewpoints, and help you understand your personal and professional capability.

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What is the Technology and Analytics Career Track at UBC Sauder School of Business MBA?

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The technology and analytics focuses on topic areas like data visualisation, AI commercialisation, and consumer analytics.

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What are the experiential learning components at the UBC Sauder MBA?

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Experiential learning components of the program include business strategy integration at the beginning part of the program, the Internship or entrepreneurial project and the Capstone project at the end of the program.

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What are the summer internships at UBC Sauder School of Business?

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Summer internships are four month long assignments where you get a return on investment of three to six thousand dollars per month over the course of four months.

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What is the class profile of the UBC Sauder School of Business MBA program?

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Roughly a class of about 100 students that join every year in the UBC Sauder MBA program. They have a different range of ages. The average age typically falls between 27 to 28. The UBC Sauder MBA class consists of 51 percent International students

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What is the range of salaries offered to graduates of the UBC Sauder MBA?

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The range of salaries offered to graduates at UBC Sauder MBA is anywhere from CAD 33,000 to over 200,000 CAD

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What is the minimum GMAT or GRE score required to apply to UBC Sauder MBA?

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The minimum GMAT score required to apply to UBC Sauder MBA is 550 and the minimum GRE is 300. A competitive score however is a GMAT score of 650 and a GRE score of 320 to apply to the UBC Sauder MBA with at least the 50th percentile for each of the two verbal and quantitative sections of the GMAT. The IR section scores of the GMAT score are not important for the UBC Sauder School of Business MBA application.  For management consulting goals a competitive GMAT score is a minimum of 700.

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How can students coming from the arts background or non-business background pursue the finance track? Is it necessary to know this knowledge beforehand?

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For students from non-finance backgrounds the finance industry in particular is it's very competitive to get into so certifications like the CSA CFA level 1, 2 or 3 provide an additional boost to those who wish to shift to the finance career track at UBC Sauder MBA.

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What are the consulting projects offered at UBC Sauder School of Business?

 

There is a local Consulting project right after the foundational module with a real company and then there's an international Consulting project called Global immersion where you will ask the works on a Consulting project for an international company in a different country where firstly you would consult for the company, you know local, you know abroad while you still doing your courses in Vancouver and then you will go abroad and meet the company's stakeholders.  

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How does the UBC Sauder School of Business prepare graduates for the management consulting roles?

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If you are a competitive candidate for consulting you should have scored a 700 on the GMAT test.  UBC Sauder School of Business has a special program called the Strategic Management Consulting mentorship. This program is run by Alumni in the consulting firms and this is a very special kind of a four week boot camps that students can go into in the MBA program. If you pass this bootcamp, you're actually guaranteed first round interviews with all the consulting big fours.

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