LBS welcomes its new class intake for 2023-24
London Business School (LBS) is welcoming new and returning students to its London and Dubai campuses for the start of the 2023/24 academic year.
More than 1,3481 new students have joined the LBS community in the last few weeks, with more set to join over the coming 12 months.
In August, we welcomed 601 students representing 70 different nationalities across our Graduate Masters programmes: the Global Masters in Management (GMiM), Masters in Management (MiM), Masters in Financial Analysis (MFA) and Masters in Analytics and Management (MAM).
In addition, 487 students, representing 63 different nationalities, joined our new MBA2025 class, along with 172 students across our full- and part-time Masters in Finance (MiF) programmes.
In September, some 88 students, representing 33 nationalities joined our Executive MBA (EMBA) programme – 46 students joining our September intake in London and 42 students choosing to study with us in Dubai.
Students on our Graduate Masters programmes hail from an array of undergraduate disciplines, bringing subject knowledge from architecture to politics, and pharmacology to economics and art history.
Students on our post-experience programmes bring with them a wide spectrum of work experience from a wide range of industries, including Finance, Consulting, Technology, Energy, Real Estate, Luxury & Retail, Health Services, Public Sector, NGOs and more.
Some of the varied and interesting backgrounds joining us this year are:
- A Formula 1 driver, just one of the numerous sports professionals we’ll be welcoming from sports as varied as Australian Rules football, basketball, powerlifting, rugby and swimming, to name but a few
- A diamond trade financier who is also a certified butcher
- A space scientist
- A professional photographer
- A medical doctor who used to be a football referee.
Highlights from this year’s incoming classes to date2 include:
- 294 Masters in Management/Global Masters in Management students, 55% of whom are women. There are 55 unique nationalities represented amongst the class
- 220 Masters Financial Analysis students representing 52 nationalities
- 87 Masters in Analytics and Management students representing 28 nationalities
- 487 MBA 2025 students, with 63 nationalities represented across the class
- 132 full-time Masters in Finance students representing 46 nationalities
- 40 part-time Masters in Finance students representing 30 nationalities
- 46 Executive MBA (EMBA) London (September intake) students representing 28 nationalities; 48% of whom are commuters3, bringing with them on average 13 years’ work experience
- 42 EMBA Dubai (September intake) students representing 22 nationalities; more than 52% of whom are commuters, bringing with them on average 13 years’ work experience.
Arnold Longboy, Executive Director Recruitment and Admissions says:
“Interest in our Graduate Masters programmes has grown, with 601 students in total joining our GMiM, MiM, MFA and MAM programmes, up from 579 last year. We are particularly proud to note that 55% of students on our GMiM/MiM class are women.
“We continue to work to increase diversity across all our programmes and are seeking to double the number of scholarships offered at the school through our Forever Forward fundraising campaign. We aim to raise £60 million specifically for scholarships, which will help us to move the dial on diversity even further.”
1. Figure correct at date of publication [5 October 2023].
2. The next intakes of the LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy, EMBA London and EMBA Dubai programmes will commence in January 2024
3. 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’
