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MBA from India or Abroad

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Forum Name: B-Schools
Forum Discription: Review talk, discuss about your favourite B-School, Discuss what better systems could be put into specific B-schools so as to make them better from the student's point of view.
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Topic: MBA from India or Abroad
Posted By: Mamta
Subject: MBA from India or Abroad
Date Posted: 13/Aug/2006 at 10:47pm
Guys,

Lets discuss ...

Where would you do your MBA and Why?


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Posted By: Mamta
Date Posted: 13/Aug/2006 at 10:49pm
In my opinion an MBA from India would be useful only in India and not abroad, whereas an MBA from abroad and from a reputed "Business school" would be a very great decision except that it costs a mint of money and that you need prior relevent work experience for the admission.

Posted By: Ambarish
Date Posted: 14/Aug/2006 at 11:12pm
are you sure about this 

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Posted By: Mamta
Date Posted: 14/Aug/2006 at 11:16pm
I wanted to know your views regarding it!

Posted By: Mamta
Date Posted: 14/Aug/2006 at 11:23pm
It will solely depend upon individual's choice. However, most important thing that would matter is money. US MBA schools are way too costly than their Indian counterparts. If you can afford that much money, i would suggest US. One reason being, it is somewhat easy to get in US good school than IIM, provided you have good experience and good test scores. You wont be competing with MILLIONS to get an admit. People from US MBA schools also get good salaries, it can be anywhere from 80k-150k.

MBA in india can be cheap but may be difficult to get in good school.
 

Posted By: Ambarish
Date Posted: 14/Aug/2006 at 12:10pm
well as you said its totaly on one's view which matters as far as gettin into a bschool is its never easy to get into a good b school wether in india or abroad ven if the enterance test is easy the number of students appearing in an exam takes its toll 

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Posted By: Ambarish
Date Posted: 14/Aug/2006 at 12:18pm
a good b school is a good b school it really does'nt matter which country is it situated in what matter is the perception of a stuent himself/herself if he is ready to sweat, work hard, anything is possible 

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Posted By: Mamta
Date Posted: 15/Aug/2006 at 11:22pm

If one needs international exposure and access to a good network, then should think of doing one abroad. Indian schools will teach you just the same, probably better, but may not be able to provide an environment where each individual brings something unique to the room. If a batch of 100 has people from 42 different countries with average experience of 4-5 years in lets say across 15 different industry sectors and different business function, the learning will be that much different.

A quick look at the selection procedures will also make it clear. Most of the top rung B-schools rely on a combination of academic success and experience. Equal weightage is given to experience if not more than academics. However, I think, the Indian system is based on academic excellence. Or atleast overly biased towards it.

At the end of the day, my suggestion is have a close look at what one's expectations and objectives are and then match what each school has to offer.


Posted By: Ambarish
Date Posted: 15/Aug/2006 at 12:27pm
i agree with most of your points yes if you do get a chance of doing a master in an international b school of good rep and a line of very successful alumnus you should go for it but you should also be very careful in choosing your institutes coz most of the info provide by the lower rung b school showcase them as very good institutes. i however sensed a biasness in your opinion regarding int. exposure indian  schools are also equiped with providing you with the same kind of atmosphere plus you can go on exchange programs with int school which protects you from going into a low grade insti. a friend of mine has just been choosen to go to paris he leaves in a few months and another just returned from europe, and germany now i'd also like to state my views on experiance and education delima here in india there are diffrent forms of course that are there to choose from the two which i find most interesting is firstly the two year course and secondly the excutive course now the former on fits with your idea finish your grad and go for a masters degree however the latter is the one you are looking for as coz its the one designed for executives who have prior industry interferance i like the former one as because you are not bound with your experiance and are free to mould new technique and you are enthusiastic but latter one has some negtive points in that sense as because once what you learn is very difficult to unlearn and as i always say

to each what suits him the best


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Posted By: PrashantS
Date Posted: 01/Nov/2006 at 8:25pm
Well dont you think an MBA  abroad gives you international exposure...ofcourse it has to be totally necessary coz fee is exorbitant....

Posted By: tyler_durden
Date Posted: 02/Nov/2006 at 12:37pm
i would like to discuss this topic as i am giving my gmat in a short time.

i had cracked CAT 2 years back while i was in final year.

there re two points one should consider before deciding to go for MBA.

1. whether you re going to work in inida after your mba or,
2. you ll settle abroad

if you want to work in india then no point spending 100k dollars for the heck of getting international exposure because in india one cannot get the packages which will even help in repaying the education loan.

if you re ambani or tata or birla then you can go to any school but others do have to think while taking education loan worth 100k or more.

so in this it makes more sense to go for CAT or ISB or executive programs by IIMA and IIMb.

in the other scenario where one is willin to settle abroad then an mba from foreign b-school makes absolute sense.


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