This year more than half of Kellogg-HKUST executive MBA students are from as far afield as New Jersey and Helsinki
With the large variety of executive MBA programmes available, navigating the postgraduate business education landscape can be tricky. But what makes the Kellogg-HKUST executive MBA different and a stand out is the diversity of its students, which transforms the classroom into a microcosm of the world.
This year, that diversity reached a pinnacle of sorts, with the programme, a partnership between the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's School of Business and Management, reporting more than 50 per cent of students residing outside of Hong Kong, its highest ever number of students from overseas.
These students will travel two weekends every month to the HKUST campus in Hong Kong to attend classes and work in small groups of eight.
Since its inception in 1998, the programme has come a long way both in terms of its international student mix and class size, which reached a maximum capacity of 60 in the current year, double the size of its first class 12 years ago.
No longer only attracting senior managers from the region, executives are now clocking up the miles and flying in from as far as New Jersey, New Delhi, Helsinki and Moscow to attend the programme ranked No1 by the Financial Times in 2007. Since 2005, the EMBA has consistently retained the world's top three ranking.
