Oxford Saïd Deadlines 2012-2013

The application deadlines for the 2012-2013 admissions season at Oxford Saïd are as follows:

Round 1
Deadline: October 12, 2012
Interview Decision Notification: November 9, 2012
Final Decision Notification: December 7, 2012

Round 2
Deadline: January 11, 2013
Interview Decision Notification: February 1, 2013
Final Decision Notification: March 15, 2013

Round 3
Deadline: March 8, 2013
Interview Decision Notification: March 22, 2013
Final Decision Notification: April 19, 2013

Open Field Round
Applications accepted: March 23 – June 28, 2013
Notifications sent within four weeks of submission

Source: Oxford Saïd admissions website.

Oxford Saïd Essay Topics 2012-2013

Oxford  Saïd has announced its essay topics for 2012-2013!  They are as follows:

Essay 1:  Explain why you chose your current job. How do you hope to see your career developing over the next five years? How will an MBA assist you in the development of these ambitions? (750 words)

Essay 2: What should Oxford expect from you? (750 words)

Re-applicant Essay: What improvements have you made in your candidacy since you last applied to the Oxford MBA? (250 words)

The deadlines for the 2012-2013 admissions season have also been released.  

Source: Oxford Saïd’s admissions website.

Business Majors Face an Uphill Battle

The fastest-growing segment of bachelor’s degree holders applying to MBA programs is former business majors who reached 54% percent in 2010. Former business majors taking the GMAT increased an average of 5.3 percent each year, a rate at least twice as fast as any other major. GMAT test takers are seen as a gauge of who is applying to graduate business school.

But schools don't like business majors in many cases.  The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business as well as Harvard Business School and Oxford’s Saïd Business School, report that they have accepted more engineers in recent years.

Engineering graduates are, and have been, the second-largest group of undergraduate majors interested in applying to MBA programs. But as a portion of GMAT test takers, they’ve become increasingly scarce. Engineers taking the test grew an average of 0.6 percent each year from 2006 to 2010—more than four times slower than test takers overall.

Source: Bloomberg Businesweek