Common MBA Admission Interview Questions

Common MBA Admission Interview Question:-

• Why business school?
• Why did you decide to apply to this business school?
• What makes you stand out among other candidates?
• What can you contribute to our program?
• What are your expectations of this program?
• How do you plan to use your degree?
• Where do you see yourself in ten years?
• Can you walk me through your resume?
• Can you give me an example of a time that you demonstrated leadership?
• What is your definition of teamwork?
• What would you say is your biggest weakness?
• What are your greatest strengths?
• How would your colleagues describe you?
• What are your hobbies?

MBA Admission Interview Questions on your Previous Education:-

• Which school did you attend and why that one'?
• Would you choose the same studies again ifyou could do it over again?
• What was your major and why?
• What overall grades did you get? Did you get honors?
• Which courses were you best at? Why?
• What did you like most about this part of your education?
• What did you least like about this part of your education?
• What extra-curricular activities did you participate in? Why and what was your contribution?
• How did you pay for your education'?

MBA Admission Interview Questions on your Professional Experience:-

• Can you briefly describe your career progress to date?
• What are your long term career aspirations and why?
• Please discuss the factors, both professional and personal, influencing the career decisions you have made so far.
• Can you briefly describe the key responsibilities of your current job?
• What are the key challenges of your job?
• While recognizing that no day is typical, please describe a representative working day.
• Why did you choose this profession? Why this company?
• What do you like best/about your current job?
• Describe your most successful accomplishment at work.
• Describe a failure on the job.
• What could you do to be an even more effective member of your organization?
• Describe a situation in which you have been in the position of leading a group.
• What have you done to develop those under your responsibility?
• What specifically have you done to help your company change'?
• How does your performance compare with that of your peers at a similar level?
• Describe your relationship with your boss. What is good and bad about it?
• Where is your industry heading in the next five years? (all the more important if your interviewer works in the same domain).

MBA Admission Interview Questions on your Extra-Professional Activities:-

• How do you spend your time outside of work? What activities do you enjoy most and why?
• Describe a situation where you have been in a position of leading a group in those activities,
• Describe your key accomplishments in these activities.
• Describe any failure in these activities.
• What is the last book you read? What did you think of it?
• What is your favorite sport? What aspect of it appeals to you'?

MBA Admission Interview Questions on Reasons for doing an MBA:-

• Why do you want to do an MBA? Why now?
• Where do you expect to be in 5 years?
• What do you expect to get from an MBA?
• Why do you want to come to our school in particular?
• Which other schools are you applying to?
• How did you choose these schools? Why so many/few?
• Which school is your first choice?
• What if you are not accepted in the schools you are applying for? ifyou didn't get into any programs?
• What specific questions do you have about our school?
• What would you contribute to our school that is distinctive

MBA Admission Interview Questions on Your Character and Your Values:-

• Tell me about yourself.
• How would your friends describe you?
• What are your main strengths and weaknesses?
• What have you done that you are proud of?.
• Who are your heroes? Why?
• Describe any significant experience abroad. What did you learn from this?
• Describe an ethical dilemma that you faced. How did you resolve it?