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The Middle East is trying to become an MBA "hotspot"...

noreply@blogger.com (Blog) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:09:00 +0000

For financial services employers in the Middle East, when compared with the CFA qualification, the MBA has traditionally taken a "backstage" role in recruitment processes. However, this trend is starting to reverse as recently MBA's are beginning to gain reputation, slowly catching up the CFA’s status.

Over the last five years, several top business schools such as INSEAD, HEC Paris or the London Business School have launched EMBA programs in the region, hoping that companies in the region will moreover realize the importance of an integral managerial education. These MBA programs aren't in any case dirt cheap, but they offer what a CFA can’t, skills beyond the technical.

It is early to say how the MBA's in the region will develop. However, the reputation of the programs taught in the region is growing, either because of the quality of the programs is increasing or because they offer a deep understanding of how business is done in the Middle East.

MBA + Wealth Management. All in one proposition.

noreply@blogger.com (Blog) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:02:00 +0000

Those with an extensive business experience but interested in advancing into a career in private banking and wealth management should take a look to the new executive program from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon has partnered with the HEC Lausanne, and the Swiss Finance Institute to offer the International Dual-Degree Executive MBA Program in Asset and Wealth Management.

As increasing complexity and uncertainty in international financial markets and intensified demands from the financial services clients continue to create new challenges for asset and wealth managers, this Dual-Degree Program is offered to help an extend group of professionals to address these issues.

The program will be hosted in the United States and Switzerland, it’s spread over 20 months and graduates will receive an Executive MBA in asset and wealth management from the Tepper School of Business and an Executive MBA in asset and wealth management from HEC Lausanne, the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne.

For more information about this new program, please visit the program's website.

New Bradford-Perugia MBA to start this september

noreply@blogger.com (Blog) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:42:00 +0000

So far, Italy hasn't been a natural market for MBA's, apart from prestigious programs like Bocconi's MBA or Politecnico's MBA, there is an absence of a wide array of accredited programs or programs delivered in English.

However, we are starting to see a change in the panorama, as the UK's University of Bradford School of Management and Italy's University of Perugia are launching a new joint MBA program in Spoleto, Italy beginning in September 2011. This new, 12-month, full-time program will be taught by faculty from both schools, but mainly based on the Bradford full-time MBA.

An interesting characteristic of the program is the possibility to do an internship at the end of the program, profiting from the University of Perugia's industry contacts in Italy.

For more information, please visit the program website.

A look at the Sorbonne-INSEAD new LLM program

noreply@blogger.com (Blog) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:25:00 +0000

The Sorbonne University of Paris has always been regarded as one of the best institutions in the world for law students.

However, as law programs around the world are increasingly incorporating business aspects in their curriculum, the Sorbonne University found itself lacking a multidisciplinary legal program that incorporated international business aspects.

With the recent launch of the International Business Law School, the school aims to respond to the legal challenges of the 21st century. The center is aimed to enable future managers and high-level lawyers to face the legal challenges in societies that have become both globalized and transformed by technological revolutions.

The school's flagship program, the LL.M. in International Business Law, is a multidisciplinary program launched as a joint venture between the Sorbonne and INSEAD, therefore combining the strength of two of the world's leading institutions, both in law and business.

The program will be taught between the Paris and Singapore campuses and graduates will receive an INSEAD certificate in addition to the LLM diploma from Pantheon-Assas.

For more information about this new program, please visit the program's website.

The 2012 Guardian UK university guide is already here

noreply@blogger.com (Blog) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0000

Already a classic among not only UK students, but students around the world thinking about going to study abroad in the UK, the Guardian University Guide 2012 is already available at the Guardian's website.

From Economics to Agriculture, the guide ranks all UK universities by the different degrees they offer. Apart from the usual suspects (Oxford, Cambridge, LSE) this year's rankings show that there are several "up and coming" universities that are gaining more relevance than ever on the British educational panorama.

For more information about the guide, please visit the Guardian's website.

Dartmouth Tuck's subsidizes internships to its students

noreply@blogger.com (Blog) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:13:00 +0000

According to a Wall Street Journal article, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College is aiming to give its first-year students an advantage over students from other business schools by offering private equity firms that hire them for the summer an added bonus in the form of a salary subsidy. In an environment of cost cutting strategies across the sector, finding a summer internship is proving to be a difficult task.

The program pays up to half of a student intern’s salary if a private equity firm or portfolio company takes them on as a summer associate, as revealed by WSJ.

Jonathan Masland, co-director of Tuck’s career placement office, said that the program could finance up to $5,000 per internship.

“The main purpose is to give Tuck students an extra arrow in their quiver,” Masland told WSJ. Applicants looking at Tuck for next year will certainly appreciate the school’s strong show of support for students in these trying times.

source: Wall Street Journal

Students find themselves crunching the numbers after the ¨Credit Crunch¨

noreply@blogger.com (Blog) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:25:00 +0000

Since Banks had to tighten their credit policy as a consequence of the financial crisis that hit the world credit markets on 2008, students have found themselves facing surmounting difficulties to get financial support for their studies.

As an example, if you are an international student pursuing an MBA on an American University, unless you get accepted to an Ivy League school like Harvard or Wharton, it will be almost impossible for you to secure a student loan if you don't have an US based cosigner.

Many international students are finding that their B-school dreams are over even before they start. Some of the leading business schools and graduate programs received a serious blow after big lenders like Sallie Mae or CitiAssist were forced to cancel their "no-cosigner student loans". These programs usually allowed the applicants to get funding up to their tuition fee without having to get a stewardship in case the borrower defaulted. The community most affected by this measure is the international students community, for whom this programs were crucial for their degree aspirations.

In a time where international companies are looking more than ever for well recognized international degrees, the impossibility for some students to finance their degrees is proving to be a fundamental issue, that need to be addressed by the public and private sector, specially if they want the emerging world to continue progressing.