I wish to take up an MBA from UK for job prospects and career enhancement. I have seen the tuition fees reaching far pristines for such programs from a top tier university(Bradford). I am planning to spend 18000 pounds plus another 7000 pounds in terms of living expenses. I would have to sell a property in India to do so. Now my idea was that if I get a suitable job that pays in pounds or Euro, I can recover the money spent towards the course in a year's time or atleast 70% of the amount. Thats assuming I get a good placement after the course. Can somebody tell me the possibility of getting good jobs after such a pricy self-funded course? Or is it better I go for a B grade university course spending just under 10,000 pounds?
Vinod, Why move from India? Have you considered studying the MBA via distance learning? I am working full-time, my wife is about to have our first child and I am studying an MBA via distance learning. Others on this board have made far more impressive commitments, a mother of 5 studying and working springs to mind. I won't go any deeper in case there is good reasons why you can't study via DL. Let us know though, this is a DL board and that is where the passion is. All the best, Dave C.
Good one! I have seriously considered several distance education courses. If you remember once I posted a silly question on what the general consensus is while one tries to learn via the Computer Screen using E-Books and not the traditional class-room style and paperback reading. Well, for one, I have not been able to concentrate on computer screens for academic purposes although I am able to work well. Secondly there are good MBA's in India too and a lot of them through correspondance/Distance learning although not through Online means. You'd be surpriced a large number of top tier universities in India have gone on to conduct courses through distance education for instance IIM's, XLRI etc... are conducting executive programs for mid-level career enhancements. They are available for under Rs.200,000 or when you divide them by 45, they are a lot more less than their US counterparts. But again in India the employers mostly want a direct college degree through classroom method. Not the delivery model of distance/correspondance or internet. More over most of the distance education MBA's in India are non-case studies based. In a classroom MBA course I would be in a position to work on real life scenarios. In India these case-study models are still not popular. Which is why there are a lot of students preferring an oversees education. For its quality. I am a Medical Billing specialist who bill for Doctors and Hospitals based in USA however I work in India as an off-shore model. I recently came across Anthem college's (Nationally accredited by ACCSCT - Accrediting Commission for Career Schools & Colleges of Technology) Medical billing and coding Associate degree course and wanted to take it up through distance education. It would most probably add as an excellent adjunct to my carreer. However my only concern was having a Associate degree after already having an Mphil. So I began searching for a Masters level, however it was not available. Then it occured to me that US based or UK based MBA's could yield good oversees job. (Oversees because the currency value is high and so when I take home some of the dollar savings, I'd get rich! But like Steven Taylor says "Dream on, dream on dream on until your dream comes true!" Thats true with me, I gotta admit.
