Oh, congratulations! You have made it (hopefully)! It’s April, and most business schools have released rounds of admissions. It’s about time for you to be selective now. We’ve talked about class size, ROI, and career outcomes, but your MBA experience also includes geography. When choosing the top business schools in Gujarat, like other matters in life, remember: location, location, location!

For the next month, with the Welcoming Weekend season, business schools will be busy, a chance for you to tour campus, get to know potential peers, and get early insight into the next two years of your life. However due to COVID-19, colleges are taking a slow step towards re-opening their educational sessions. Will you be in a mood to visit the program? How would you know, if you can’t travel, that a place is right for you?

Don’t worry! Benefit from this blog about how you can decide on the right business school/MBA college.

Look for the suitable location

If you are a resident of India, you might wonder which business school to choose from due to the immense number of colleges throughout the country. Since one might not consider a new location’s realities, they will always have a tough time adapting. What does the culture of a city represent to an 18-year-old? What is it like living with only undergraduates and seniors in a tiny town? And what am I going to do with climate?!

As an option, we advise you to make location a priority while evaluating business schools. The decisive factor, when it came down to it, can be as simple as the food consumed by the people around.

Well, food and closeness to family is something that we all look for. So, what does food mean then with response to location? In a country as diverse as India, the people at various locations are habituated with a variety of food depending on their culture. Therefore, one has to look for a location where the food consumed by the people is something that can suit you when you move in.

Find out what matters to you today, so that for two years you will be content at your “new” home with your MBA.

Always look for what you want

Ask yourself what you want or what you desire once you graduate from your online MBA course. We can’t tell you what’s important to you, but we can outline some questions and considerations that may help frame your choices. Make use of solitude for necessary introspection about your MBA experience as the world slows down for the next few weeks.

·         Do you want to replicate the environment of your undergraduate or early career years, or would you like to try something new?

·         Do you want to do a trial run of any cities in consideration of post-MBA life?

·         Do you want to gain international exposure and experience by studying abroad for the duration of the MBA?

·         Do you want easy access to professional sports, concerts, and other entertaining activities within a large city?

·         Do you want to be immersed in the collegial atmosphere and campus traditions of a small town driven primarily by its university?

·         Do you want a break from heat and humidity – or gray skies and snow?

·         Do you want proximity to any dream companies or industry clusters?

·         Do you want to stay in your MBA city after graduation?

 

For many of us, the secret to our ideal experience was a global town with a varied culture and lively community. For others, the position of the MBA was important for career achievement. Here’s what one of them told us: “I was most critical of employer access, which is something I learned in undergraduate studies.” Even though I was a student at one of the top MBA colleges in Ahmedabad, since it was so distant, the college was unable to draw prestigious employers.

Take into account the aspects most important to your ideal lifestyle when listing your place requirements and strive to block out others’ desires, message board noise, and the dreaded FOMO.

Keep in mind the needs of your household

You must define what you and your household need, in addition to pondering what you want from a location. While you could be the one who gets an MBA, your wife, kid, pet, dog, and fish are all along for the trip. For us, this meant seeking a town for both our families with enough job opportunities and us. Somebody has to pay the bills after all!

The following will need to be discussed for your journey:

·         Where will my partner work? How will they fit into a new city or MBA social life?

·         Do you need childcare or school for any children? How close are your preferred options to campus or desired neighbourhood?

·         Do you need to run home between classes to let the dogs out? How costly is housing nearby?

·         Do you need to travel back to a partner or family out of town frequently? How are the flight options and prices?

·         Do you need to buy a house? In addition to housing, what’s the cost of living for utilities, transit, and other necessary resources?

 

Use your resources properly

It’s time to do some homework now that you’ve developed your wants and needs. Let’s start with the Internet, like anything else these days. We looked at location-based best MBA colleges in India through our search engine on major news pages and travel publications. One of the best MBA colleges in Ahmedabad that we came across was St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies.

You will be eagerly linked to current students and graduates through most admissions departments, which is a perfect place to proceed with your questions. Ask your recruiter to introduce you to someone of a similar experience, if possible, so you can gauge how they have treated the move to the school’s location.

You can find that inside your network, the most persuasive intel comes from trustworthy friends or others. Some of the questions that you can ask a relative or a friend who has someone in the business school you want to get yourself enrolled to are –

·         What is the school like?

·          What are these people like?

·         Is the traffic actually as bad as it sounds?

Conversations such as these are crucial to understanding both the MBA program’s culture and the city in which it is, particularly when you can’t visit.

Then make the best of your time in town if you want to visit the location of your future college. Explore the environment surrounding campus and beyond, in addition to the official Welcome Weekend events. Find a convenience store or a nearby pharmacy to your business schools. Try to arrange trips to apartment complexes and nearby restaurants while you are on your visit for pre-MBA activities. For those looking for an authentic city experience, you can look for nearby hotels with the best possible access to the city surrounding your aspiring MBA college.

Conclusion

It is still a thrilling, nervous moment to switch to a new place. In the time of coronavirus and transitioning back to college, it’s challenging when heading for the best business schools in Gujarat! It’s especially nerve-wracking. Put your days of social isolation to good use for important discussion and review so that you can make the best of your years of business school in your future home.