Lots of background among students means stimulating interaction and plenty to talk about
INFLUENCED BY TRENDS, annual league tables and colleagues who have been through it themselves, potential MBA students are finding it hard to sort through all the information out there and decide which course at which school is best for them.
The choice is complicated by the fact that students can choose not only from a host of MBA programmes offered by local institutions, but also from those run by overseas schools, not to mention all the distance learning options.
For more than 45 years, the non-profit-making Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA) has been working to improve the 'effectiveness and efficiency' of managers here.
Through the association, several overseas centres offer the chance for Hong Kong managers to do an MBA without having to move to the host institution's country.
MBAs are offered by the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), established in 1969 at Macquarie University, the oldest, continuously operating business school in Sydney; RMIT, Melbourne's prestigious institute of technology; the Asia International Open University of Macau, which has been offering MBAs for the past 20 years; and the University of North Alabama, one of the oldest business schools in the United States and an MBA provider for more than 30 years.
By teaming up with international universities to offer a range of MBA programmes - from those that focus on IT management to those that equip students to excel in the international marketplace - the HKMA takes on responsibility for on-the-ground administration, backed by its local knowledge. This frees the university to focus on delivering the best in management education.
