Article Written By: MKT Mukesh
The primary reason for aspiring managers to home in on Asia as their education destination is that MBA Colleges are providing the same quality of education and multi cultural environment as their western counterparts and at a hugely competitive fee structure. It is also creating unprecedented job opportunities for new management graduates.A multi cultural environment has become the biggest positive for Asia s top business schools. In 2004, over 18,500 international students from different nationalities took admission in 90 MBA programmes in China. Today, about a third of the students in China s top 25- 30 MBA Courses are of foreign origin.The story is not any different in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Unsurprisingly, MBA applications in Asian schools have gone up, even as those in the West have declined.The trend is not different in the case of placement opportunities. Employment at the time of graduation in top American business schools, including Harvard, Chicago (Booth), Stanford and Boston, vary from 68.4 per cent to 76.3 per cent; three months after graduation, placement percentages go up between 86 per cent and 92.4 per cent. In contrast, about 80 per cent of students in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) who completed their programme this June, have already found placements in top companies.Mercer's Quality of Living Survey has ranked Singapore as Asia's best city. It also has best infrastructure and tops in ease of doing business. This positive perception encourages more MNCs to open offices in Singapore, thereby creating more job opportunities for new management graduates.Asian economies are doing better and so are their educational institutions. Not very long ago, the inclusion of Mao Zedong s economic philosophy was obligatory in the curriculum of Chinese universities, but they could not expose their students to western thinkers such as Adam Smith, Max Weber and Milton Friedman.The number of Asian B-Schools has also gone up with time. Among the top 200 world universities, 25 are from Asia. China has five business schools in the elite of 40 of the QS Global Top Business Schools 2009. And the most heartening fact is that what Asian universities have achieved in a decade, it took the west 50 years.
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