DePaul University Forms Partnerships To Open MBA Programs in Bahrain and Bangkok.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 DePaul University DePaul University[1] is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois, USA. has formed separate partnerships with the Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance (BIBF BIBF Bisexual Black Female ) in Bahrain and Mahidol University Mahidol University (Thai มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล, pronounced: ma-hi-don) is a public university in Thailand. College of Management in Thailand to launch two new Master of Business Administration (MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration ) degree programs abroad. Both programs will be taught by faculty members of DePaul's highly-ranked and accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business The Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business is part of the DePaul University College of Commerce, a business school located in the Chicago Loop, Illinois, USA. The College of Commerce was founded in 1913 and is one of the ten oldest business schools in the United States . Tentatively scheduled to open in 2001, the 16-course Bahrain MBA program will be offered at BIBF, an executive management education center in Bahrain. It will target high-level managers in the region's business sector and possibly U.S. military personnel stationed in the Arabian Gulf Arabian Gulf: see Persian Gulf. . DePaul expects to begin student recruitment in September. The program is believed to be the first MBA program in the Arabian Gulf taught by faculty from an accredited United States business school. Bahrain, an archipelago of 33 islands with an area of about 270 square miles off the east coast of Saudi Arabia, is known for its robust financial services and oil industry. DePaul plans to open the dual-degree Bangkok program in January of 2001. Thai students who complete the 16-course program each will receive a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from DePaul and a Master of Management degree from Mahidol's College of Management. The Bangkok program received recognition from President Bill Clinton, who visited DePaul University in Chicago to participate in a higher education forum Aug. 10. President Clinton discussed the program during a telephone conversation with the Rev. John P. Minogue, C.M., DePaul's president, who was in Bangkok meeting with education leaders. During his address, Clinton praised the international collaboration between DePaul and Mahidol as "a good thing." The curricula for the Bahrain and Bangkok programs are modeled after DePaul's successful MBA program in Hong Kong, which the university launched for International Bank of Asia employees in 1997. "These new programs are consistent with Kellstadt's with global education initiatives," said Arthur Kraft, Kellstadt dean. "They will extend Kellstadt's internationally focused MBA training to two prime locations abroad and provide faculty and students excellent opportunities to interact with business professionals and educators in two foreign regions. It's important for business schools to develop international education programs because of the increasing globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation of business." With approximately 2,500 students, the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business is the eighth largest business school in the United States. Its largest program, the part-time MBA, is ranked among the five best in America by U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. , and its entrepreneurship program was rated second in the nation by Success magazine. The school also offers a full-time MBA in International Marketing and Finance that attracts top American and international students and offers them an opportunity to work in 10-week internships at multi-national firms around the globe. |
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