Chinese B-Schools Lift their Game

As the schools' reputations improve, more local students are choosing to study at home rather than earn degrees abroad…………. Foreign case studies haven't been thrown out altogether, but the new emphasis on Chinese business reflects the changing priorities of China's business schools. As the curricula become more relevant to Chinese students, the schools' reputations are improving, and more local students are choosing to stay home rather than earn degrees abroad. In an exclusive poll of 253 recruiters from such companies as Huawei, General Electric (GE), and Nokia (NOK), 34% of respondents called the supply of high-quality talent from China's MBA programs "excellent" or "good," up from 19% last year, according to BusinessWeek China's third annual survey of Chinese B-schools. The quality of MBAs "is becoming better and better," [View Full Article]

Students Seeing Advantages of Mandarin Chinese Program

…………The national language of the more than 1.3 billion inhabitants of China and millions more ethnic Chinese around the globe, Chinese is the most widely spoken first language in the world. Though more than 200 million Chinese schoolchildren are studying English—often begun as early as the second grade—experts estimate that no more than 50,000 U.S. students are studying Chinese. China is now emerging as a world economic power after years of global isolation. By learning the language, not only are students embracing the unique culture of China, but they are also becoming competitive in a global economy. [View Full Article]

MBA in India

As far as higher education is concernced, the educational scenario has changed dramatically in India in the last decade. In the debate of an MBA in India versus abroad, as a student currently pursuing my MBA in India, I believe that an Indian MBA scores over an international MBA on several counts.

The main advantage is the cost. An MBA from any good B-school in the US or UK costs anywhere between Rs 25 to 50 lakhs, whereas Indian MBA schools charge ten per cent of the same amount. Secondly, when living abroad, you spend far more than you would in India, and as a result need to work there for at least a few years to recover the amount. This severely hampers your prospect of returning to India after the completion of the degree. [View Full Article]