Even good schools in India might be tough without work experience. Here is the requirements for the one year full time program at ISB in Hyderabad:
"One of the important reasons why we?ve been ranked 12th in the world is our students. We look to recruit students from a variety of backgrounds, nationalities, education and experience, to enable a vibrant and diverse learning experience.
To be eligible to apply you must meet the following requirements:
A Bachelor?s degree in any discipline.
Preferably two years of full-time work experience after graduation.
GMAT score
TOEFL / IELTS / PTE score, only if language of instruction during under graduate education was not English."
Now it does say preferably, so maybe if you do well in undergrad studies they will wave the experience requirement. You don't know until you cross that hurdle.
Even if you can get into ISB (or Oxford or Harvard), what then? Are you planning to have the name on the degree carry you through the interview? Imagine this list of candidates:
Candidate 1: Received MBA from Boston College and has 10 years of experience in middle management and line positions in the same industry.
Candidate 2: Received MBA from University of Phoenix and has proven track record of success on numerous projects over a 15 year career prior to MBA.
Candidate 3: Received MBA from Harvard and has no work experience.
Who would you hire for an important management position?
The thing is that you will likely get a higher level job with an MBA than you will without an MBA. If you have experience and a track record of success to go with the MBA, you are likely to get a higher position still. Once you land that first job out of business school, future employers are more interested in what you have done than what you have learned. If you start as a profit center manager with your MBA, you have to work your way up. If you have some experience prior to your MBA and start as a senior manager or VP, then you do not have to climb as far to get to the top.
The bottom line is that you have to market yourself. When you graduate with an MBA, you will be competing for jobs with other MBA graduates. They will have job experience. Some of them will have a lot of job experience. What will you have to set yourself apart from the herd?
Even good schools in India might be tough without work experience. Here is the requirements for the one year full time program at ISB in Hyderabad:
"One of the important reasons why we?ve been ranked 12th in the world is our students. We look to recruit students from a variety of backgrounds, nationalities, education and experience, to enable a vibrant and diverse learning experience.
To be eligible to apply you must meet the following requirements:
A Bachelor?s degree in any discipline.
Preferably two years of full-time work experience after graduation.
GMAT score
TOEFL / IELTS / PTE score, only if language of instruction during under graduate education was not English."
Now it does say preferably, so maybe if you do well in undergrad studies they will wave the experience requirement. You don't know until you cross that hurdle.
Even if you can get into ISB (or Oxford or Harvard), what then? Are you planning to have the name on the degree carry you through the interview? Imagine this list of candidates:
Candidate 1: Received MBA from Boston College and has 10 years of experience in middle management and line positions in the same industry.
Candidate 2: Received MBA from University of Phoenix and has proven track record of success on numerous projects over a 15 year career prior to MBA.
Candidate 3: Received MBA from Harvard and has no work experience.
Who would you hire for an important management position?
The thing is that you will likely get a higher level job with an MBA than you will without an MBA. If you have experience and a track record of success to go with the MBA, you are likely to get a higher position still. Once you land that first job out of business school, future employers are more interested in what you have done than what you have learned. If you start as a profit center manager with your MBA, you have to work your way up. If you have some experience prior to your MBA and start as a senior manager or VP, then you do not have to climb as far to get to the top.
The bottom line is that you have to market yourself. When you graduate with an MBA, you will be competing for jobs with other MBA graduates. They will have job experience. Some of them will have a lot of job experience. What will you have to set yourself apart from the herd?