Joint MBA : US, INDIA AND CHINA

The Smith school of business at the University of Maryland is setting up a Global Consortium MBA programme intended to bring together students from the US, China and India. The Smith school’s partners in the project will be the Management Development Institute (MDI) in India and the University of International Business and Economics in China.

The two-year, full-time programme will begin in the autumn of 2008 and will focus on global entrepreneurship in three of the world’s key markets. Students will complete the first year of the programme at their respective home institutions and then will come together in the second year to study three modules in the United States, China and India.

“As the world’s most significant emerging economies, China and India will have a major impact on 21st century global business,” according to Howard Frank, dean of the Smith school. “The creation of programmes that support opportunities for our faculty, students and staff to actively engage internationally represents a vital element of the Smith School’s globalisation strategy.”