Yes its weird that they have slapped on a high price tag merely for a MIT 'affiliated' MBA. I wouldn't pay RM290K for a MBA degree from ASB despite a certificate of completion from MIT. I think its clearly over-priced especially in the current economic environment.

And getting company sponsorship would be virtually impossible since you would need to be off work for 2 years.

It will be interesting to see the number and value of the scholarships on offer though.

First of all its not mine. I haven't enrolled in that program.

Secondly, no its not the same. The MIT MISI full time Masters degree states MIT-Malaysia Master of Science in Supply Chain Management. Students of the full time program must spend 4 weeks at the MIT campus in Boston.

Differs slightly with the part time program which doesn't have the 'MIT' on the cert although it has 'MIT Global Scale Network' mentioned on both certs.

The other difference is that all 4 campuses in the MIT Global Scale Network (MIT Boston, Malaysia, Europe and South America) have exactly the same course content and curriculum (including all teaching material and lecture notes which comes from MIT Boston) unlike the ASB-MIT MBA program in which the core curriculum follows MIT Sloan but is tailored to an Asian content.

Cybermaster and Alaskan Bunny,

You both seem to ultimately agree that the proposed ASB-MIT is not really that great value. Why don't we meet up sometime over coffee and I can explain to you how the Sunway University dual award MBA with Lancaster University stacks up. As it happens I am currently in Lancaster at the moment but can meet in a few of weeks. Coffee on me!

Alternatively we have an MBA preview this evening at 6:30pm on campus or refer www.sunway.edu.my/mba for alternative details and preview dates.

Kind regards
Prof Brian