If you can venture across the causeway, NUS has joint MBA programs with Harvard and Insead. NUS itself is one of the top 100 MBAs globally.

The well-known American MBAs are most well regarded by employers. I'm sure you know Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, Stanford, Wharton etc etc. Consultancies like BCG and McKinsey tend to recruit most of their staff from these 1st tier MBAs.

European MBAs are quite well regarded, but not as many. Insead's the most well known and 1st tier. UK MBAs are generally mostly 2nd or 3rd tier, but some like LBS, Manchester and Warwick are very well known.

The best Aussie MBAs are from UNSW-AGSM and Melbourne Biz School. The rest are generally 3rd tier.

Most local employers don't pay extra for MBAs. It's usually the MNCs which value MBAs, especially if you have it on top of a purely technical first degree. They see it as an indication of potential and an awareness of business acumen.

This post has been edited by seantang: Jan 6 2007, 11:55 PM

No lah, I'm too old and unmotivated to study anymore. But I reckon it's a great opportunity to get a top tier coursework MBA, that rivals even the top US ones, without having to go all the way to the US or Europe.

MBAs have their own rankings, which are independent of overall university rankings.

A top ranking university, might not necessarily have a top ranking MBA, although a good overall uni ranking surely doesn't hurt the MBA's prestige at all. The best MBA's are usually conducted by a very independent business school within the university. Some deans of the business schools don't even report to the university's chancellor, but straight to the board of governors.

Best if you check the MBA rankings directly, rather than extrapolate from the university rankings.

Yes, there'll definitely be some flexibility. Just the same as being 27 and above doesn't guarantee you a place in the course.

It's just a convenient guideline, not a pre-requisite. It's a MBA, not a driving license. Most 27 year olds will tend to have at least 3-5 years of working experience - which allows them to have something to contribute to the class, and more importantly, have a background on which to compare what they learn during the MBA.

May be, but you should have mentioned that instead. No worries.

You need 'appropriate' working experience. The best MBAs will want you to be fairly accomplished in your career before they give you a place. Otherwise your education history needs to be quite a bit above average.

No point paying 80K to go to classes with sales execs, accounts execs or IT programmers who've never supervised people or managed a dept /function /business before.

Not only networking.

It's also the team projects / assignments and discussions. In a class full of inexperienced low level employees with nothing to share, all the activities soon become Q&A sessions. They Q, the more experienced ones A.

Only 50 British MBAs on the list. But 50... that's about all the MBAs lah. But only for those who graduated after 2004.

Get the foreign one. Local Us don't have the reputation and name recognition of the foreign Us. It's a sad fact of life.

Ahhhh. Then the question shouldn't be which MBA is good or the best.

The question should be which MBA is good when the student is... well, not so good?

This 2nd one, I concede. I mis-read British-approved as British period.

The 1st one... rubbish. I merely pointed out that the Top 100 Unis and Top 100 MBAs are 2 entirely different rankings. You just needed to be more specific.

Nope, sorry dude. What you said is below. Read your own stuff again. You said Nottingham's the only uni in all of Malaysia to be in the list of Top 100 unis worldwide... therefore it's MBA is best in Malaysia.

Anyway, cukup lah. You win, ok. I am sorry seantang isn't psychic enough to understand you.

Already say you win what... how much more rest can I give it?

You just want the last word, is it? Nah, give you lor. You post one more time, I won't respond. How's that?

This post has been edited by seantang: Jan 19 2007, 10:24 PM