Cambridge Judge

Cambridge, United Kingdom · Public · 1-year full-time

Average GMAT Focus: 635
Class size: 222 (Class of 2027)
Program tuition: £114,019 (full program)

Deadlines

Round 1: Aug. 24, 2026
Round 2: Oct. 5, 2026
Round 3: Jan. 4, 2027
Round 4: March 22, 2027
Round 5: May 4, 2027

Essays

Careers objectives statement (500 words)

Please provide details of your post-MBA career plans. The statement should not exceed 500 words and must address the following: What are your short and long-term career objectives? How will the Cambridge MBA equip you to achieve these? Looking at your short-term career goal, describe the research you have done to understand how this industry/role/location recruits MBA talent and what they are looking for in a candidate? How confident do you feel about meeting your short-term career goal? What skills/characteristics do you already have that will help you to achieve them, and what preparation are you doing now?

Essay 2 (200 words)

Tell us about a time when you made a professional mistake. How could it have ended differently?

Essay 3 (200 words)

Tell us about the best team you worked with. What made the team successful?

Essay 4 (200 words)

Provide an example of when someone else positively impacted your life. What did you learn from this experience?

Editor's notes

Cambridge says there are no quotas by round and a Round 5 file gets the same consideration as a Round 1 file. The catch is money and Colleges: earlier rounds leave more time for scholarships and College preferences, and military awards go on a rolling basis. If you need funding, Oct. 5 or Jan. 4 is the realistic target.
You get one reference, and it has to come from someone who supervised you. No peers, no professors. That single letter carries the weight two letters carry elsewhere, so choose the manager who has seen your best work up close and give them time.
Three of the four essays are 200 words, and the admissions head's advice is to treat them like interview questions: what happened, how you responded, the outcome, the lesson. That's a useful skeleton. At 200 words it leaves room for one example each and nothing else.
The current class came mostly from industry (60%) and finance (28%), with 5% from consulting, and 55% of the last graduating class took jobs in industry. Whatever your target, the careers statement's research question is where you prove you know how that sector actually hires MBAs.