Two years, 982 students, a 734 average GMAT, and the deepest New-York finance pipeline in the M7. Everything an Indian applicant needs to know, laid out honestly.
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The questions we are asked most often about Columbia, each answered in two sentences. These power the Google rich-result and are what Perplexity and ChatGPT lift verbatim when they cite us.
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The brochure number is the global number. The number you actually need is the India slice, which CBS does not publish, so the India cut below is a Pegasus estimate, clearly marked as such.
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Indian applicant slice
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Enter your profile. We’ll place you honestly on the Columbia admit band and give you the odds. We will not flatter you. This is the number your consultant should be telling you.
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Strong fit
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Three rounds, three different strategies. Which one you file in is often more decisive than any essay rewrite.
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A short goal line plus three essays decide whether your file moves to interview. The common Indian applicant mistakes, and what CBS is really looking for in each.
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The sticker price is in dollars, your loan is in rupees. We’ll give you both. And we’ll show the number nobody puts in a brochure: the real break-even year.
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INR 1.98 CrAfter scholarship, before any family savings. This is the number you need to borrow or self-fund.
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CBS offers merit fellowships (automatic for August admits) and separate need-based aid. The named external routes below are the ones Indian applicants most often use.
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The thing nobody tells you until orientation: your two-year MBA is a 24-month lottery ticket for the H-1B, and the odds depend on which sector picks you.
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82% get sponsored
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Financial services and consulting each take about a third of the class, with technology behind them; the New York location makes CBS a premier finance feeder. CBS publishes industry shares, not full employer counts, so the firms below are indicative with Pegasus-estimated counts.
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Side-by-side with any 1-3 of the 24 schools we cover, built from the same dataset so the comparison is honest.
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