Why an MBA program’s culture is more important than its ranking

UBC MBA student Aubrey Chapnick has words of advice for prospective MBA students.

“When examining potential programs, it’s easy…to get caught up in things like a school’s postgrad placement numbers in management consulting and investment banking or how close to Harvard it comes on the FT rankings,” wrote Chapnick in an article for the Globe and Mail. “While such measures are important, I’d recommend that incoming students try to get a sense of what the unique culture of schools they are applying to is before setting their sights on a given program.”