Best Full-Time Options at Top Schools for Older MBA Applicants

If you are in your early to mid 30s with 8+ years of work experience, you might want to consider the following options

1. Kellogg 1-year (lots of sponsored consulting candidates)
   
   
2. 16-month CBS January Intake (can do in-semester internship)
   
   
3. Sloan Fellows 1-year options (see Wikipedia) Stanford MSx, SFMBA at MIT, LBS Masters in Leadership and Strategy (average age in ascending order)
   
   
4. Europe Europe Europe. They like more seasoned applicants, and you can do a 2-year program with an internship (with LBS, actually 2 internships!). INSEAD (January intake for internship) and IESE (good option for jobs in Germany & the Netherlands, even without speaking German or Dutch!). If you want to pivot and need an internship to do that - these are good options.
   
   
5. Select US programs that are friendly to older applicants. Check the average age/age range. Ross has an average age of 31, similar to HEC Paris. 

All this said - if you are a veteran - age is less of a concern.