One-year MBA programs may have been regarded as quick programs in the country, however, that opinion has changed with time. No more are one-year MBA graduates met with frowns at their job interviews. Times are changing rapidly, and B-schools in the country are ensuring to provide students with as many one-year MBA courses as possible. Considering how international colleges like INSEAD (France, Singapore), IMD (Switzerland), Said (United Kingdom) and more are rapidly growing due to the success rates of their one-year MBA programs, colleges in our country are also looking at the one-year program with optimism. Initially, only Kellogg School of Management and Johnson Graduate School of Management extended their course list by adding one-year MBA degrees as a part of it.

It is debatable though to deem Ivy league colleges like Columbia and Stanford as worthy in the one-year MBA degree list since they provide a full-time one and half years MBA degree programs. However, we won’t be adding them to the list for their syllabus catering to a full-time course. As it is known, one-year MBA programs are more focused, much like an Executive MBA degree, with the main difference being, a one-year program is full-time.

5 best schools for one-year MBA degrees
The idea of a one-year MBA may not be as popular as a two-year MBA.

• Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  State: Evanston, Illinois
  Estimated tuition fees: $95,000

• Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
  State: Ithaca, New York
  Estimated tuition fees: $102,652

• Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
  State: Los Angeles, California
  Estimated tuition fees: $112,000

• Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
  State: Notre Dame, Indiana
  Estimated tuition fees: $75,768

• F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College
  State: Babson Park, Massachusetts
  Estimated tuition fees: $120,160