LBS welcomes more diversity through January intake

London Business School (LBS) has welcomed a diverse cohort of students to its London and Dubai campuses through its January 2023 intake, adding to the more than 1,300 new students who joined the LBS community at the start of the 2022/23 academic year. The total number of students across all programmes now stands at over 1,500, with 148 executive students joining in January.

Some 112 nationalities have joined the school since the start of the 2022/23 academic year, with many students bringing with them a wide spectrum of industry experience. The diversity of sectoral experience has been reinforced by the January intake with students on our EMBA London, EMBA Dubai and the LBS Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy programmes bringing expertise in a wide range of industries.

Just some of the varied and fascinating backgrounds represented through our January intake are:

• A keen diver who can hold their breath underwater for 3 minutes
• A medical doctor who used to be a football referee
• A mountain climber who has climbed Mount Fuji twice at night
• A Filipino body builder who won the Philippines's top body building title
• A former Croatian professional basketball player
• A commercial director with a PhD in Textiles
• A former professional swimmer with a PhD in Pharmaceuticals
• A diamond trade financier who is also a certified butcher
• A cardiologist who grew up on a super tanker.

Highlights from the 2022/23 classes include:

• 288 Masters in Management (MiM)/Global Masters in Management (GMiM) students, 53% of whom are women and with an average of 5.6 years’ work experience behind them
• 210 Masters Financial Analysis students representing 54 nationalities
• 81 Masters in Analytics and Management (MAM) students of whom 54% are women
• 509 MBA 2024 students representing 74 nationalities (up from 68 last year)
• 139 Masters in Finance students representing 45 nationalities
• 49 part-time Masters in Finance students representing 22 nationalities
• 50 Executive MBA (EMBA) London (January intake) students, representing 33 nationalities, of whom 40% are women and 48% are commuters*. They join the** 55 EMBA London (September intake) students representing 26 nationalities; 45% of whom are commuters. Each intake brings with them on average 14 years’ experience.
• 42 EMBA Dubai (January intake) students, representing 22 nationalities, with on average 14 years’ experience. Of the January intake, 24% are women and 50% are commuters. They join the 48 EMBA Dubai (September intake) students representing 21 nationalities; 60% of whom are commuters, bringing with them on average 14 years’ experience.
• 56 Sloan students representing 26 nationalities and bringing with them an average of 19 years of experience. A quarter of the cohort are women.

Arnold Longboy, Executive Director Recruitment and Admissions says, “The uptake for our programmes this year has remained reassuringly strong, despite a decline in applications across the sector, attributed in part to high employment levels in the USA and the UK. We are particularly proud to note that women on London Business School’s Masters in Management and Masters in Analytics and Management programmes are well represented, with 54% and 53% of students respectively who are women. Similarly, we are delighted to welcome a high number of women (40%) to our EMBA London January intake.”



*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’
**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’