I am getting a lot of questions about Insead Vs other school these days. I cannot compare as I cannot speak for other schools. So once more, in a nutshell, here is my very very very personal opinion. Go challenge it.

Plus
- two campuses
- international community (faculty, alumni, participants)
- faculty
- focus on entrepreneurship, practical stuff
- good return on investment
- good general management program
- friendly, well positioned, truly global and ultra responsive alumni: regardless of where you are, you will find some Insead alumn in the world ready to help you
- collaborative attitude
- innovative
- small
- Dean argues that it is good that it does not belong to another university as it is granted independence, I'd argue that for students if has drawbacks (see below)
- Pascale
- very strong name all over Asia
- National Weeks
- Rugby Team
- Accommodation in Singapore
- consulting
- quality of log offs
- one year
- P6 around entrepreneurship for motivated entrepreneurs
- wine at the canteen
- Singapore Airlines

Minus
- small
- one year
- CMS and OCR (it is changing this Clearly Messy Service under the leadership of an ultra professional new director)
- IT (especially for a global school)
- aggressiveness and brand management "out there" - best marketeers are the alumni though
- difficult to drive change (quick turnout)
- difficult to build sense of community vs other programs (more intense but only one-year and loads of movement between continents)
- Fontainebleau in wintertime
- Singapore in summertime
- only B-school (since it does not belong to a university)
- more difficult to build critical mass in any one place because your alumni network is stretched across the world
- banking recruitment for July class members who want to switch sector and move into banking (as apparently summer internship and heart of recruitment period in the fall helps, but I am no banker so please take this with salt - and I saw a lot of banks offer application deadlines very recently so dunno how much of this is true)
- public transportation in Fontainebleau
- rice every day
- France Telecom monopoly

I don't know where to place the almost exclusive network that you are likely to build while at Insead. Because Fontainebleau is so remote, because the local community express itself freely in French and painfully in English and unless you take upon you to learn Boar Dialect (would that be boring Boarish?), you will hang out with Insead people, day in and day out...
In Singapore, it is easier to go out and actually get to know the other 4 million people who have chosen to get wet feet on one the most organized island in the world. They do speak English, they have not seen a boar before and they don't know where Fontainebleau is. Still, most of (free) weekends will be spent on some heavenly beach, face down in the sand and there is a clear tendency for Inseaders to travel with only 20 or 25 of their closest classmates.

And boy, I was just reading some of these latest posts. I got the wrong tradeoff between typing speed and accuracy - my grammar is going haywire. Need to sit back on some of these PoM classes.