Evaluate MBA students’ communication skills with a diagnostic test to support academic and career success.
AscendMBA is EnglishCoach’s flagship Business English diagnostic test for educational institutions, MBA schools, and organisations looking to hire MBA graduates.
It is designed to assess how prepared learners are to communicate effectively in professional and management-oriented settings, using tasks that reflect the language demands of business education and early-career corporate roles.
The assessment is benchmarked to the CEFR and is built to provide a practical view of communication readiness rather than a generic measure of English ability alone. It evaluates listening and reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar in use, and spoken fluency in business contexts, giving institutions a clearer foundation for learning support, placement decisions, and communication development planning.
AscendMBA is designed to be scalable, relevant, and easy to interpret for institutional decision-making.
Maps performance to recognised proficiency levels
Assesses language for MBA and workplace contexts
Uses auto-scoring and AI-supported evaluation
Supports remote roll-out for 250 to 300 students
AscendMBA assesses the core language abilities that matter in management education and early-career professional settings.
These include:
Listening and reading comprehension
Vocabulary and grammar in use
Spoken fluency in business contexts
This combination helps institutions evaluate both receptive and spoken communication performance in a way that is relevant to business classrooms and corporate environments.
AscendMBA helps institutions move from broad assumptions about communication ability to a more precise and usable understanding of learner readiness.
Get an early view of Business English proficiency
Understand needs at individual and cohort level
Pinpoint skills linked to classroom and career performance
Use assessment insights to shape language support
IFMR Global School of Business, Krea University
IFMR GSB wanted a reliable, CEFR-aligned baseline of Business English for its incoming MBA cohort so that language support could be targeted early in the academic year. The assessment was administered to incoming MBA students in July 2025 and included a written diagnostic covering Listening, Reading, and Business English, along with a Speaking evaluation using CEFR-benchmarked prompts. The rollout was designed for a large cohort and included scheduled online slots, clear pre-assessment instructions, CEFR grades, and detailed breakdowns.
Talk to EnglishCoach about using AscendMBA to assess readiness and improve outcomes.
