TORONTO, November 9, 2009 -- The Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada today officially launched the Schulich MBA in India – India's newest MBA program.
The Schulich MBA in India is the first MBA program to be delivered in that country by a leading international business school from outside India. The program has received government approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the national regulatory body governing school accreditation and the delivery of degree programs in India.
The inaugural class of the Schulich MBA in India will begin on January 4, 2010. Year 1 of the Schulich MBA will be delivered at the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai, the commercial capital of India. Year 2 will be taught in Toronto at the Schulich School of Business. Schulich faculty will deliver the majority of the courses in Mumbai and all courses in Toronto.
“Schulich is proud to provide one of the first truly international MBA degree programs to be offered in India,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth. “The Schulich MBA in India will offer tremendous opportunities for Indian students looking to acquire world-class management training. It aims to attract the best and the brightest students from India and prepare them for global careers in India and around the world.” Added Horváth: “The launch of the new MBA in India is an important step in realizing Schulich’s goal of becoming a truly transnational business school.”
“The expectation is that we’re training global citizens so they can take their business skills to any country in the world,” said Ashwin Joshi, Executive Director of the Schulich MBA in India Program and Schulich Associate Professor of Marketing.
Schulich’s ties to India go back more than 15 years. The School has exchange partner agreements with a number of India’s leading management schools, including the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad.
In 2005, Schulich opened an international satellite centre in Mumbai that recruits talented students; provides career placement services to Schulich students and alumni seeking career opportunities in India; offers Executive and Leadership Development programming for Indian executives; supports Schulich’s alumni chapter in India; and manages local media relations.
About The S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) is rated among the top three private business schools in India and among the leading schools in all of South Asia.
The guiding philosophy of SPJIMR is influencing management practice and promoting value-based growth. The Institute is known for its pedagogic innovations and pioneering programs. It operates five centres of management learning (Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Centre for Family Managed Business, Centre for IT, Centre for Project Management, and Centre for Development of Corporate Citizenship).
About Schulich
Known as Canada’s Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business in Toronto is ranked among the world’s leading business schools by a number of global surveys. Schulich’s MBA program is ranked #1 in the world by the Aspen Institute (a Washington, DC-based leadership think tank) in a global survey that identified which schools are doing the best job of preparing future business leaders for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day business. Schulich’s MBA program is ranked #1 in Canada by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist and Expansión (a Time Warner publication based in Mexico City). The Kellogg global network of EMBA partner schools, which includes the Kellogg- Schulich EMBA, is ranked #1 in the world by The Wall Street Journal, and the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA is ranked #1 in Canada by the Financial Times of London. For complete ranking details, please visit www.schulich.yorku.ca.
Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich offers business programs year-round at two Toronto campuses — its new state-of-the-art complex on York University’s main campus and its downtown Miles S. Nadal Management Centre located in the heart of the city’s financial district. The School also operates representative offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Moscow, Russia. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has more than 21,000 alumni working in approximately 90 countries. Schulich pioneered Canada’s first International MBA (IMBA) and International BBA (iBBA) degrees, as well as North America’s first ever cross-border executive MBA degree, the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. Schulich’s Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to more than 16,000 executives in Canada and abroad.
