Five Schools. Four Continents. OneMBA.
The following article was originally written by a contributing writer at Business Because. You can find an original copy of the article here.
If you had to name the most obvious global locations to set up a business school the names that would roll off most tongues would be pretty familiar: London, New York, Paris, Tokyo. Pretty far down this list would come Rotterdam, Monterrey or Chapel Hill.
The OneMBA is a global executive MBA which is made up of five partner schools from five very diverse cities; Hong Kong, São Paulo, Rotterdam, Monterrey and Chapel Hill.
But these locations actually make perfect sense.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is located in a city that needs no introduction. Hong Kong is a major economic player, a financial juggernaut dependent on international trade and its ever-growing ties with mainland China.
Fundação Getulio Vargas is located in São Paulo, Brazil whose economy outweighs that of all other South American countries. Brazil is expanding its international exposure and as one of the BRIC nations presents many financial opportunities where the rest of the world is in recession.
Rotterdam’s School of Management at Erasmus University gives insight into European business. Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands and the largest and most important port in Europe, granting the city the title “the Gateway to Europe”.
EGADE is the Graduate School of Business at Monterrey Tech, Monterrey is the capital city of the Northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. The city is a commercial centre and the base of many international corporations such as Sony, Toshiba, Whirlpool, Nokia, Boeing and General Electric.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, home to the Kenan-Flagler Business School is close to Washington D.C so a great location for all those Whitehouse Wannabees who are fitting an EMBA around their busy schedules. Over the past 20 years North Carolina has made the transition from a traditional economy based on tobacco to a global economy driven by knowledge-based enterprises including Cisco, Dell, Bank of America and branches of Google, Microsoft.
If you apply to the OneMBA you apply to the most conveneient OneMBA partner school for you and then attend monthly class sessions on its campus. However, if your job requires you to move away you can transfer your partner school without interruption.
Find out more about the programme which was ranked 26th in the world by The Financial Times in 2011 at OneMBA
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