Is it necessary to have work experience in order to get admission in any of the top B-schools to pursue MBA?

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294 Views|Posted 9 years ago
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hardik gupta
9 years ago
Hi, well, it is not necessary to have work experience, but the candidate with work experience will get more preference by the B-schools. All the best.

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Candidates with work experience are preferred by the colleges, but no, work experience is not necessary to get admission in a good B-school to pursue MBA.

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T
9 years ago
No, to pursue regular MBA in India, you don't need to have any work experience. For Executive MBA one should have 5-6 years of experience .

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manoj vyas
9 years ago
No, it is not necessary for you to have work experience in order to pursue MBA. You can get admission in a good B-school without having any work experience.

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Ajitesh Kumaresan
9 years ago
No, it is not necessary. I don't have any work experience, but I am pursuing MBA in a B-school.

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9 years ago
It is not necessary, but candidates with work experience are preferred by the top B-schools.

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Shail Oberoi
9 years ago
Having work experience prior to purusing MBA will come to ones advantage at the time of campus placements. However, to seek admission in MBA ( full time) one is not required to have any work experience. The only requirement is that one should be a graduate with minimum 50% marks and should have clea

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Ishita Shah
9 years ago
No, it is absolutely not necessary to have work experience to get admitted in any of the top B-Schools to pursue MBA, but you will definitely have an edge over many of the applicants for the same if you have a good relevant work experience. But, coming to the point, most of the weightage is for your

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Harshit Jain
9 years ago
No, it is not necessary to have work experience in order to get admission for MBA in any of the top B-School. It is only that while evaluating various scores they give some weight-age to work experience. But without work experience also one can pursue MBA.

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