Global MBA, but at a cost always

Getting a management degree on foreign soil may not be a very attractive option.

Says Vinayak Kamath,director, Geebee educational services, “In the US having a mere academic track-record is no guarantee for an admission into an MBA campus. They expect atleast two to three years of supervisory experience in a company.”

This is because in the west MBA is looked at as a mid-career degree where they hone the business skills which the students have acquired through work experience and other factors.

However, if a student was to still get an admission into one of the universities, life after that could be full of uncertainties. “Most of them end up getting start up jobs,” says Kamath.

This is because large and established companies do not appreciate an MBA degree which was acquired without a pre-qualification experience.

That’s because the message such universities are sending is that they are unable to attract quality students from all nationalities and therefore has to rely on Indian students for its sustenance.

Such MBA degrees do not get any weightage from employers even in the home country. Kamath says that doing an external campus programme, whereby the university in Asia has an affiliation with a US university, is also not an acceptable idea.

“Getting a degree from such universities also does not give an added weightage to the students in the employment market,” he says.