Sydney, as well as part-time MBAs for executives in Sydney and Hong Kong.
USA
Over in the US, more business schools are preparing students for careers in the growing areas of financial regulation, compliance, negotiations and public affairs. The Fletcher School at Tufts University, an elite school for diplomacy and international law, recently launched a two-year Master in International Business (MIB) as an alternative to the MBA, that brings these disciplines together with traditional subjects like accounting and finance.
And lastly... why not study online?
France
Paris is the capital of French finance and luxury goods, but the Silicon Alps region close to Switzerland is home to research centres for hi-tech firms such as HP, STMicroelectronics, Schneider Electric and Caterpillar, and many of their suppliers. Business schools with strong links to firms in the region include Grenoble Ecole de Management and EMLYON, which both offer well-regarded MBA programs. This is Europe’s hub for
well-established hi-tech firms as well as start-ups. Great for engineers.
Australia
Australia’s economy has also escaped the worst of the global downturn thanks to demand from China for its abundant natural resources. The country’s top business schools (ranked by the Financial Times) are the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney and Melbourne Business School. AGSM offers a 16-month full-time MBA in
You may not have to choose a country. These are MBAs that you can study from anywhere in the world, as long as you’re open to using new technologies and communication methods to keep in touch with professors and classmates. Business schools are beefing up their technology and course options for distance and online programs. One stand-out program we’ve come across recently at BusinessBecause is Manchester Business School’s Part-Time MBA, which combines online learning with 25 hours of face-to-face time in your choice of seven Manchester campuses worldwide, including Dubai, Miami and Singapore.
Maria Ahmed is Editor of
BusinessBecause.com, a business school news, networking and jobs site helping to connect applicants with b-schools and business students with employers.
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