Is it hard to get into Smurfit Business School?

The outlaw

Hi,
I'm a final year accounting student who should easily get a 2.1 and just applied for the MA in Accounting course at Smurfit Business School for next year. I'm wondering is it hard to get into smurfit? or do they really just want your money and decent college marks or is it more competitive with interviews etc?

Thanking you very much in advance.

AARRRGH

From my own dealings with them, they seemed very keen to sign me up to one of their courses.

If you have at least a 2.1 I can't see you having any problems!

LuckyCharms

I am also planning on applying at the end of the month for their Management Counsultancy course so hopefully might see you around if all goes well.

bnt

I'm currently studying for an undergraduate degree in Engineering. I took a GMAT a few years ago, and they suggested it might be worth applying for an Executive MBA solely on the basis of my experience and other courses, without any undergraduate degree at all. I didn't apply, but I wonder what might have happened in that case...

googlefan

I recieved a conditional offer last week. Has anyone else heard anything? The €500 non-refundable deposit is a bit annoying.

Has anyone had any experience of people getting less than their anticipated final result and still getting in? Getting a bit worried about exams!

jon1981

2 criteria...

2.1 degree/2.2(with good experience)

and

money

googlefan

Fact!

ramblingcelt

Hi guys. Don't know much about the Smurfit school but was looking for an MBA course last year and found Smurfit expensive for how it is ranked.

If you want a masters would recommend looking at KUL in Belgium as a masters course (in english) is about €500!! Heavily funded by Belgian Government.

Did my MBA at Vlerick in the end as the business school is ranked 9th in Europe and it was shed loads cheaper than TCD or Smurfit. Had a great year.

Most business courses abroad are now offered in English and certainly makes ur cv stand out and opens more opportunities.

Hope this helps.

TelePaul

ramblingcelt wrote: »

Hi guys. Don't know much about the Smurfit school but was looking for an MBA course last year and found Smurfit expensive for how it is ranked.

If you want a masters would recommend looking at KUL in Belgium as a masters course (in english) is about €500!! Heavily funded by Belgian Government.

Did my MBA at Vlerick in the end as the business school is ranked 9th in Europe and it was shed loads cheaper than TCD or Smurfit. Had a great year.

Most business courses abroad are now offered in English and certainly makes ur cv stand out and opens more opportunities.

Hope this helps.

MACC, MSc and MBS are pretty popular amongst prospective undegrads. MBA = different kettle of fish!

If you have the cash, Smurfit will take you. It's very expensive.

NoNamer

Unfortunately, most of the above posts do not apply to the MAcc. There is no interview process and roughly 100 places available. It is purely decided based on academic achievement (GPA). You need to have CAP 1 exemptions which you should probably have if you're doing accounting at undergrad level (check with ICAI to be sure). This year the cutoff was somewhere in the region of GPA 3.3-3.4. It depends on the number of applicants.

Regardless of how much money you have, if you don't make the cutoff, you're not getting in.

Although most other courses let you in if you have the cash!

poisonated

If you want to do the MBA in Smurfit, does it matter what undergraduate degree you have. That is to say, if you have a first arts degree, would they accept that?
Another thing is, they say you need to have a certain amount of work experience, would that be any full time job or just a managerial role?
Thanks.

D-Generate

poisonated wrote: »

If you want to do the MBA in Smurfit, does it matter what undergraduate degree you have. That is to say, if you have a first arts degree, would they accept that?
Another thing is, they say you need to have a certain amount of work experience, would that be any full time job or just a managerial role?
Thanks.

Unless someone has at least 3/4 years and ideally more work experience then I am strongly against the idea of doing an MBA. For anyone straight out of undergraduate it can seriously do damage to your job prospects because you have high qualifications but no experience so you are gone from grad programmes pretty much but are not suitable for experienced roles.

MountainRunner

Anyone rate any of the distance learning ones, especially if one was planning to work abroad, for example the Open Univerity (triple rated); also if anyone has taken this route, how benefitical do you think it was, as some would say that 80% of an MBA importance is based on networking opportunities, hence the necessity to complete such a programme within the country that you plan to develop you career!?