Executive MBA: Who are we looking for?

First and foremost, we are looking for candidates who exhibit strong leadership potential throughout their academic and professional experience. This can take many forms: being selected for a leadership programme at work, launching a new business venture, captaining a sports team or leading a voluntary project – anything which demonstrates your ability to lead, inspire and motivate others. Imperial MBAs have the leadership potential not just to succeed in business, but to create new opportunities and be trailblazers for others. We want candidates with the drive and ambition to change the world for the better.

As part of one of the world’s greatest science and technology universities with a global reputation for pioneering research, it should come as no surprise that at Imperial College Business School, we are looking for innovators for our MBA. Whatever your background, if you are a bold, original thinker you will fit into the class well, and have many opportunities to exercise your creativity through programme elements like the Innovation Challenge, the College’s Create Lab, and access to London’s thriving start-up scene. Entrepreneurial or intra-preneurial ventures in your career so far, academic projects, hobbies or your post-MBA aspirations can all demonstrate your passion for innovation.

Whilst we expect individual excellence from all of our MBA candidates, the culture at Imperial is focused on collaborative success. Throughout the programme, working well with your cohort in syndicate groups and project teams will enable you to achieve so much more than you could by yourself. We are looking for people who will make a positive contribution to our community and find ways to enrich the MBA experience for their whole cohort by being highly engaged inside and outside the classroom – whether it’s through exchanging ideas, utilising your network or organising activities. Your MBA classmates will become part of your lifelong network, so it’s as important to you as it is to us that we get this right.