One factor that makes a world-class Executive MBA course so successful is its borderless classroom learning system. It is HKUST and Kellogg School of Management's intention for students to take Kellogg classes anywhere, regardless of whether their home campus is a Kellogg EMBA programme in Hong Kong, the Middle East, Europe, North America or Latin America.
'Over the past two years each of our EMBA programmes, including the Kellogg-HKUST Programme, has built a dedicated live-in opportunity open to students across the Kellogg network,' said Julie Cisek-Jones, assistant dean and director of the Kellogg School's EMBA programmes worldwide.
She said although Kellogg faculty members, who taught in the EMBA programmes at HKUST and worldwide, were based in Evanston, Illinois, they travelled abroad, teaching at each of its campuses.
'Our partner institutions then provide their premier faculty. As a result, the students, who are senior executives, are joined in the classroom by the best faculty members that each school has to offer.'
She said the students in the EMBA programmes travelled to their programme campus twice a month. So the study groups that were formed at each institution had an international flavour. 'You can see that in the Hong Kong programme, where students come from the south Asia and, because of the nature of business in Hong Kong, throughout the world.'
The programme in Hong Kong requires that students take part in a seven-day live-in period at the HKUST campus at the start of the course in January. The second live-in exercise is in August when participants fly to Chicago for two weeks to interact with other Kellogg's partner schools' students from around the world.
Ms Cisek-Jones said the EMBA programme stood out from the others because of its diversity.