Macquarie Graduate School of Management attracts a large number of mature MBA students with valuable experience to share
There seems to be no end to the boom in the number of business schools offering Hong Kong students the chance to study for a Master of Business Administration (MBA), but the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) stands out in ranking and history.
In partnership with the Hong Kong Management Association, Australia's MGSM is one of the largest providers of postgraduate management education taught face to face in Hong Kong. Established in 1969 at Macquarie University, MGSM is Sydney's oldest, continuously operating business school. It teaches more than 2,000 to 3,500 students in Hong Kong and Singapore and, in independent league tables, it can be proud of its numbers.
The Economist Intelligence Unit's Which MBA? ranked MGSM's MBA programme as No1 in the world for the quality of its students (2002-2005). It also judged the MBA programme 50th in the world (2004) and the best in Asia and Australia (2003 and 2004).
MGSM dean Roy Green believes a key factor that differentiates the school's from other MBA programmes is the maturity of its students, whose average age is between 30 and 35.
'Many students come from senior management positions, which provide a deep contrast to other, younger students found elsewhere,' he said.
'MGSM's postgraduate programmes are designed for senior managers and executives. Much of the work in class is interactive - students learn from their professors and from each other.'
