We take care of you from the moment you arrive in the first city on the Tour!
Remove the stress and hassle of travel planning by selecting one of our popular Travel Packages throughout many of our regional recruiting tours. This gives you the benefit of our group rates with hotels, airlines, and affordable airport transfers by traveling with the rest of the group on safe and air-conditioned buses. You can rely on our experienced staff to make all of your travel arrangements so you can focus your time on connecting with candidates. Not only will you be able to focus on applicant outreach, but you also have the opportunity to travel and connect with your colleagues in the industry.
Travel Packages Include:
Airfare from the first city to the last city within the travel package you select
Single room accommodations in 4-5 star hotels with full breakfast and internet included
Airport transfers during group travel, including airport taxes where applicable
Professional tour leaders who travel with the group from city to city.
Travel packages can be split among more than one traveler, however there are no refunds for unused airline segments or hotel nights and any additional costs incurred as a result must be absorbed by the business school.
Please note: If your school imposes any travel restrictions on the cities within our published travel packages, please contact to request a customized travel package (the restriction must be sent to us in writing).
HELPING YOU EASILY CREATE CONTENT AND KEEP UP TO DATE ON EMERGING
SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS
The MBA Tour Social Media Platforms
12% growth in 2012 (Spanish) 68% growth in 2012
52% growth in 2012
(Spanish) 23% growth in 2012
new in 2012
42,000+ views
2,500 monthly page views
Weibo China, 1350+
Youku China, 3900+
Tudou China, 2300+
Targeted Exposure: 12 months of targeted exposure through our established and popular social media channels and registrant database
Content Creation: Development of unique & compelling content that gives greater long-term exposure when compared to a print ad or an online campaign of equal cost.
What's Included in the package:
Social Media Training
Live Webinar
Session will cover how to effectively utilize The MBA Tour social media package opportunities and provide further training on how to listen to, connect with, influence and keep the attention of your audience by leveraging key social media tools. Session taught by social media experts, On-Q Communications, managers of The MBA Tour social media platforms.
Time: June 2013
Webinar: Social Media Package Introduction - How to leverage the package benefits.
1 Min MBA School Profiles: 1 Video clip
This is a viral friendly buzz creating video series where schools have 1 minute (timed!) to give an elevator pitch about the program. We will use these clips to feature a school on our social media channels in addition to heavily targeting attendees of events where your school will participate. This is a great way for candidates to become familiar with your school and representative before an event.
Featured in 1 spotlight post on social media channels before tour(s) your school participates in.
Featured on website event pages and emails in at least 2 tours that correspond with school event participation, schools pick tour priority
Schools can publish video on their own channels
Event Do’s and Don’ts Video Series: 3 Video clips
This series is an opportunity for your admission representative to provide helpful pre-event advice to tour registrants before attending the events. Questions will focus on pre-event, onsite and post event advice. The clips are recorded virtually at least 1 month in advance of each tour and promoted as a pre-event resource on the website event pages and in event email updates to registrants. This is a great opportunity for registrants to become familiar with your school and hear your advice before meeting you in person at the events. A school’s advice videos will be featured in at least 2 tours that correspond with tour participation.
Videos featured on website event pages and emails in at least 2 tours that correspond with school event participation, schools pick tour priority
Each clip has 1 week feature on The MBA Tour homepage and a post spotlight on The MBA Tour social media channels: July-November 2013
Schools can publish videos on their own channels
Hangout with a Student Video Series: 4 Video Clips
This series allows for potential applicants to hear the great things about your program from a current student. The student will choose from a list of questions to answers about their background, academic experience, campus life, school culture, and future student advice. We will provide full support for scripting, production, and promotion of videos. Business schools provide student contacts and approve final content in interviews.
Each clip has 1 week feature on The MBA Tour homepage and a post spotlight on The MBA Tour social media channels: December 2013-May 2014
Schools can publish videos on their own channels
Social Media School Spotlight Campaign
Facebook News Feed Feature: Your program will be featured at the top of The MBA Tour Facebook page for 2 weeks. Your program’s featured status will be supported by updates to our audience on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. School selects preferred dates for feature.
All Social Media package content provided by business schools is subject to approval by The MBA Tour.
Price: USD 2,750 for 12 months of activities sign up
Compare this to static print or web banner advertising.
The MBA Tour offers dedicated time and space for 1 to 1 and small group meetings with top candidates during our conference events!
You will have allotted time in a MeetUp designated room to meet face to face with high quality candidates that are pre-selected and invited by you prior to the event.
Our newly re-designed MeetUp 2.0 system makes it easy for you to pre-screen candidates and send meeting invitations:
1. Gain access to detailed candidate information: resume, student interest in your school, student intent to apply to your program, GMAT score, work experience, geographical preference, and more. Use this comprehensive candidate information to help filter through to your ideal candidates!
2. Use our calendar system to send invitations and to populate your MeetUp event schedule.
As a premium service, The MBA Tour can schedule your MeetUps on your behalf with candidates matching your school’s selection criteria, see TheMBATourMatch.
Price: USD 500, or discounted to USD 100 per city when purchased with a school presentation
A service for schools that do not have the resources or time to find
and schedule candidates for MeetUps or MeetUp Networking events.
A school will designate what type of candidates to target and we will
manage inviting and confirming MeetUps for the event. During the busy
travel season, The MBA Tour staff can assist in confirming MeetUps
until the day before an event to take advantage of all registrants who
are interested in your program and who you are targeting.
To ensure successful attendence of high quality candidates at our events we promote the event through multiple comprehensive channels: print & online media, educational test prep and consulting companies, MBA Resource networks and non-profits and social media outreach.
We notify Business Schools when there are opportunities to be included in editorial, PR, or print content. If you have questions about marketing, please contact us.
Registration data and contacts available for
download and outreach 30 days before events and within 3 days or sooner after event. All participating universities can send 1 email before and 1 email after an event and unlimted emails to scanned contacts.
Data EXCLUDES on average 8-12% of registants who OPT-OUT of receiving business school emails. EXCEPTION, if registrant is scanned by a school, the contact info will be in school scan downloads, but not on the general registration download.
To download registration data:
1. Login with your university username
2. Click on “Select Student Registration Data”
Before and after an event The MBA Tour provides a comprehensive report to help schools better assess the event registration demographics. The report includes candidate data on average work experience, average age, GMAT test taking, educational background, and professional background among other data.
To view reports:
1. Login with your university username
2. Click on “Pre-registration Profile Reports”
The MBA Tour provides a scanner to each participating business school to instantly capture candidate contact info at events
and eliminate extra office work. After an event schools can download the registration and contact data of scanned attendees usually within 24 hours and no later than 3 days.
To download scaned attendee data:
1. Login with your university username
2. Click on “Select Student Registration Data” and select option for scanned attendees only
Get access to extensive background information on our regional tour member's web sites. Includes information about the events and tour: hotels, visa info, preparation checklists, shipping info and the tour itinerary in addition to cultural information to help you prepare for international travel.
To see your Tour Members page:
1. Login with your university username
2. Click on “Tour Members Website"
Admissions representatives regard the presentations as one of our most useful event formats. The presentations are an opportunity to showcase your unique program aspects to a group of prospective students. You have 30-35 minutes in a private room to highlight the features of your program. Typically there are three to six other universities presenting in concurrent sessions. Individual School Presentations are now offered at all events except Round Table Workshops & Middle East private events.
What the event attendees said...
Chicago event attendee, “I thought the individual school presentations were great. Not only did I gather an abundance of information about the schools, but I also got a taste of the culture from the admissions personnel and by observing the types and number of prospective students who attended each school's presentation.”
Atlanta event attendee, “It was a great opportunity for me to learn the specialty of each school from the individual school presentation. The back to back sessions enable me to easily make comparisons among schools.”
Panel Presentations are 30-45 minute sessions that cover valuable business school admissions topics and answer a wide range of MBA applicant questions. Schools have the opportunity to participate on the panels and share topic advice with a large group of prospective students. Any participating admissions representative can be a panelist; spots are first come first served.
Topics in the past include:
“How Admission Decisions are Made” “Managing Your MBA Career Search” "Financing your MBA"
What the event attendees said...
Chicago attendee, “Prior to attending the MBA Tour, I was slightly intimidated about going back to school to get my MBA full time, however, after sitting through the admission process panel presentation and meeting with schools reps face to face, I now feel excited and much more empowered.”
Hyderabad attendee, “…the panel discussions that talked about MBA admissions and career search in general, clarified a lot of the simpler questions that an MBA aspirant has in mind.”
The Fair is strategically placed at the end of our MBA conferences. This allows candidates to first gather information from the Individual School Presentations and Panel Presentations in order to prepare for speaking one-on-one with you at the fair. At the MBA Fair you and your alumni have the opportunity to meet with a large number of applicants in a short period of time.
Maximum of 4 people may represent a school at a table during the open fair.
What the event attendees said...
Mumbai attendee, “ [It] is a golden opportunity to interact with school representatives and alumni alike. It gives lot of insight about the admission process thus opening up the minds of students and allaying many misconceptions that students might have.”
Atlanta attendee, “I was able to speak one on one with admissions representatives to see if their program was a good fit for me. The fair also allowed me to compare multiple programs with each other at once to determine which programs warranted a school visit for more information.”
These are 1 to 1.5 hour mini
fairs that take place before
the main MBA conference.
This a great opportunity
for you to target candidates
for your MS programs
in addition to the MBA
program. MS fairs are offered in select cities, see registration page for list.
Round Table Workshops are highly personalized and interactive; they represent the most unique MBA Tour event format. These events accommodate a select and focused group of highly qualified applicants and a small number of business schools to maximize interaction. Candidates sit at a table of five to ten people. You will spend 10 to 15 minutes interacting with candidates and then rotate to present at the next table. You therefore have the opportunity to speak to every candidate at the event, maximizing outreach in a short period of time.
What the event attendees said...
San Francisco attendee,“The roundtable discussions allowed me to hear from schools that I otherwise would not have. In a different setting I would only have talked to the reps from the schools I had short-listed. Because of the roundtable, I will be applying to a school that I had not considered.”
Frankfurt attendee, “Everyone was able to get the attention of school representatives. It helped me to discard one choice that I had made and to discover another one which I did not consider before.”
The MBA Tour offers dedicated events for 1-on-1 and small group meetings with top candidates!
Our newly re-designed MeetUp system makes it easy for you to pre-screen candidates and send meeting invitations:
1. Gain access to detailed candidate information: resume, student interest in your school, student intent to apply to your program, GMAT score, work experience, geographical preference, and more. Use this comprehensive candidate information to help filter through to your ideal candidates!
2. Use our calendar system to send invitations and to populate your MeetUp event schedule.
As a premium service, The MBA Tour can schedule your MeetUps on your behalf with candidates matching your school’s selection criteria!
MeetUp event formats consist of panels, dedicated time and space for your scheduled meetings and time for informal networking.
Participants to these events are a select and focused group of highly qualified MBA candidates and top schools.
After your MeetUps, the event will culminate with an intimate networking session. This is an opportunity for you to speak with candidates that did not have the chance to meet with you.
In many cities we offer a reception for you and your alumni at the conclusion of the MBA conference. This is an opportunity to network with colleagues and reconnect with alumni.
Targeted Exposure: 12 months of targeted exposure through our established and popular social media channels and registrant database 
