A fresh intake of students join LBS in London and Dubai

London Business School (LBS) has welcomed 1,536* new students to its London and Dubai campuses at the start of the 2025/26 academic year, with more due to join across the course of the year.

Some 515 students have joined the School’s flagship MBA programme in London, with an additional 33 students joining the School’s inaugural One-year MBA programme. An additional 112 Executive MBA (EMBA) students have joined the School’s EMBA programmes in London and Dubai. The School has also welcomed 170 students across its full- and part-time Masters in Finance (MiF) programmes.

Furthermore 706 students from across LBS’s Graduate Masters portfolio – Masters in Management (MiM), Global Masters in Management (GMiM), Masters in Financial Analysis (MFA) and Masters in Analytics and Management (MAM) – have joined LBS at its London campus.

Highlights from this year’s incoming classes to date** include:

• 515 MBA2027 students, 44% of whom are women, with 66 nationalities represented across the class

• 33 One-year MBA2026 students, 33% of whom are women, with 24 nationalities represented

• 59 EMBA Dubai (September intake) students, 59% of whom are commuters, bringing with them on average 15 years’ work experience and representing 25 different nationalities

• 53 EMBA London (September intake) students, 45% of whom are commuters***, bringing with them on average 15 years’ work experience. There are 27 different nationalities in the class

• 131 full-time MiF students, representing 48 nationalities

• 39 part-time MiF students, representing 24 nationalities

• 706 Graduate Masters students, comprising 299 MiM/GMiM students, 51% of whom are women; 322 MFA students, 44% of whom are women; and 85 MAM students, 48% of whom are women. There are 81 nationalities across the portfolio.

Students on these programmes bring with them a huge variety of work experience, along with a broad spectrum of interests and impressive achievements. Examples include:

• Entrepreneurs such as the founder of British drinks company Fix8 Kombucha & Fibe Soda, and an ex-structural engineer who now runs his own real estate company managing $25M in investments globally

• Stars from the world of sport, including a professional rugby player who has captained Rugby Canada's National Sevens team and competed in international events worldwide; a rugby union player who helped Hong Kong Rugby qualify for the 2027 Rugby World Cup; an ex-pro volleyball player; and a strategic planner for the National Basketball Association

• Ex-military personnel, including a former Italian Naval Officer who is now Director of Marine Transport for Royal Caribbean Group (Cruise Ships), and an ex-British Royal Army Officer awarded the Commander Field Army commendation for establishing and developing a new British Army development programme in Central Africa

• A US climate champion who is a former member of the Biden administration’s Clean Energy Innovation team at the White House

• A south African consultant who has rowed across the Atlantic

• A British doctor who also serves as a military reservist providing medical support to the UK’s rapid reaction force

• An Ethiopian private equity professional who helped design and implement Ethiopia’s first wheat import substitution program and is passionate about brewing Ethiopian ale.

Paul Harvey, Executive Director Recruitment and Admissions at LBS says:

“It is a pleasure to welcome so many talented and inspirational students to our campuses in both London and Dubai. We are delighted to note an increase in the overall number of students joining the School and extend a particularly warm welcome to those students who make up the School’s first One-year MBA class.

“As a School, we are proud of the lifelong learning journey that we offer to students and alumni, and it is wonderful to see that three members of our One-year MBA cohort have chosen to continue their studies with LBS having previously graduated from one of our Graduate Masters programmes. It is testament to the strength of the LBS learning experience where students across all programmes can learn from not just world-class faculty and seasoned business practitioners, but from our 56,000-strong alumni community and their classroom peers.”

* Figure correct at date of publication (15 September 2025)

** The next intakes of the LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy, EMBA London and EMBA Dubai programmes will commence in January 2026

*** Both EMBA London and Dubai are part-time programmes which require travel for those students not residing in London or Dubai, hence use of the term ‘commuters’