A 15-to-21-month MBA, 437 students, 56 nationalities, and Europe’s strongest finance-and-consulting hub, in London. Everything an Indian applicant needs to know, laid out honestly.
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The questions we are asked most often about LBS, 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 LBS 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 LBS 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 goals essay and a 200-word "what makes you unique" decide whether your file moves to interview. The common Indian applicant mistakes, and what LBS is really looking for.
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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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Your net cost over 2 years
INR 1.98 CrAfter scholarship, before any family savings. This is the number you need to borrow or self-fund.
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LBS runs a large scholarship portfolio with two standout India-specific awards: the BK Birla Scholars Programme and the Ajay Arora Scholarship. Most awards are automatic on admission.
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No lottery, unlike the US. Finish the MBA and the UK Graduate Route gives you two years to live and work with no employer sponsorship; to stay longer you move to a Skilled Worker visa once a licensed employer sponsors you.
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82% get sponsored
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Consulting takes 40 percent of the class, with finance and technology close behind, spread across 39 countries. LBS publishes sector shares, not 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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