MBA PROGRAM INTELLIGENCE · ISSUE 2024–2025 CYCLE
Filed from Boston & London · Updated 14 March 2025
Every report is built on the same 142,000-record alumni outcomes dataset that powers our program rankings. No paywall, no sponsored ghostwriting, no admissions-office spin.
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WHY THIS LIBRARY IS DIFFERENT
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Tier-1 press citations in the past 24 months — The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Economist.
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Former admissions committee members on staff from Wharton, INSEAD, LBS, Booth, and HBS.
Founded in 2014 by alumni of those same offices.
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Verified alumni outcome records — self-reported and cross-checked against LinkedIn — refreshed every 90 days.
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Update cadence on every guide, ranking, and waiver policy in this library. Last full refresh: Q4 2024.
THE LIBRARY · 24 ACTIVE RESOURCES
The catalogue is curated by our research desk and grouped by reader intent. Click any item for the full document, source data, and last-updated date.
01 — Admissions guides
A working planner built from seven cycles of acceptance data across 120 programs. Includes a calendar export and the realistic odds at each stage.
Read the guide →Reverse-engineered from 480 application rubrics and 38 admissions-officer interviews. Includes four worked examples and a self-edit checklist.
Read the guide →A template brief you can hand to a recommender, plus the four phrases that quietly sink otherwise strong applications.
Read the guide →Forty-two real questions from the 2023–2024 cycle, mapped to the competencies each school claims to test.
Read the guide →02 — Salary & outcomes reports
Median, 25th, and 75th percentile compensation by program, with three-year post-graduation trajectory and sector placement.
Read the report →Modelled payback period for 480 programs, including opportunity cost and the post-graduation salary trajectory that drives recovery.
Read the report →Three-year post-graduation mobility mapped by sector, function, and geography — the cleanest read on real placement we publish.
Read the report →Which programs gave how much, to whom, and how the matched-applicant cohort outperformed self-guided applicants by 23%.
Read the report →03 — Tools & datasets
Maps your profile against 180+ partner schools' published waiver policies. Instant verdict, no account required.
Check my eligibilityA free CSV export of the placement and salary figures behind our rankings. Cite the cohort year when you use it.
View methodologyFROM THE 2024–2025 GLOBAL MBA SALARY REPORT · 142,000 ALUMNI OUTCOMES
“Three years after graduation, the median alumni at the top-decile programs had recovered full tuition and opportunity cost — and were earning 2.4× their pre-MBA salary. At the bottom decile, the same recovery took 7.4 years. The choice of program, not the choice to attend, was the dominant variable.”
— Reported by MBA Courses Research Desk · Q4 2024 cohort · Cross-checked against LinkedIn
Read the full report →QUESTIONS APPLICANTS ASK BEFORE RELYING ON ANY OF THIS
Every program scorecard, waiver policy, and salary figure is refreshed on a 90-day rolling cycle. The date stamp at the top of every page shows the last full refresh; the publication date on each guide and report shows the last individual update. The Q4 2024 refresh is the current canonical release.
The waiver checker, the open placement dataset, and every guide in this library are free. We do not sell applicant profiles. We monetise through employer subscriptions and clearly-labelled sponsored placements — every sponsored program carries a visible “Sponsored” tag, and sponsored programs are algorithmically suppressed from the main rankings. The 2024 EdTech Breakthrough Award judges specifically cited that no-placement-paid policy.
Each of our 180+ partner schools publishes a waiver policy. We encode that policy as a set of pass/fail conditions across four common axes: undergraduate institution tier, GPA, years of work experience, and any professional certifications or prior quantitative coursework. Your inputs are scored against the encoded policy for every school in our database, and you receive a verdict for each one. The methodology page documents the encoding and refresh process.
Every piece of content authored by a paying employer is labelled “Sponsored” in a visible tag near the headline, the byline, and again at the foot of the page. Sponsored program placements do not influence our main rankings — the 37-factor scorecard suppresses them algorithmically. If you cannot find the “Sponsored” tag on a piece of content, it is independent research from our desk.
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