More students in Dubai funding themselves on Part Time MBA

The number of students who are funding themselves rather than being funded by their company has increased from 20% to 90% over the last four years on Bradford University School of Management’s Dubai-based MBA programme.  It is thought this is the same trend as on the Distance Learning MBA.

The School of Management’s Dubai programme has also seen a shift in the sectors that MBA students are coming from, with fewer from banking and service backgrounds and more from engineering, telecoms, IT and aviation.

Julian Rawel, Director of Executive Education at Bradford University School of Management, said: “Our MBA student profile has changed in the last four years in Dubai – and overall numbers are considerably up.  This year we are seeing a lot of highly successful ‘technical’ people who have hit career ceilings and see the MBA as the route to senior management.  In the past most would have been funded by their employer. Now they are demonstrating commitment by investing in their own careers.”

Areej Nassar 26, who is due to graduate from the Bradford MBA based in the Dubai Knowledge Village in September, funded herself. She did the part time, two year programme while continuing to work and has just landed a job with Johnson & Johnson as brand manager.

She said: “The fact I am doing a self-funded MBA showed Johnson & Johnson that I am a driven individual and prepared to invest in my career to excel professionally and academically. I have always been very ambitious and progressed quickly at Reckitt Benckiser, becoming one of the youngest brand managers at the company.”

Before signing up, Areej researched both the Distance Learning MBA and the part-time MBAs in Dubai.  She chose Bradford’s well-established Executive MBA, designed for professional managers, because of its academic credentials and its flexibility. More than 500 managers have graduated from the Bradford MBA in Dubai over the last 16 years.  The programme is AMBA and EQUIS accredited and ranked in the top 100 globally by the Financial Times.

She said: “With Bradford, there is a good mix of independent learning and classroom contact with excellent professors and fellow classmates. The timetable didn’t interfere with my day-to-day job and I could use vacation days and weekends to focus exclusively on studying. The programme is international which has helped me understand business problems from different perspectives and given me the opportunity to have worked and learnt with people from other industries and cultures.”

The Bradford Distance Learning MBA is aimed at intelligent, highly motivated managers who wish to equip themselves with the essential business and management skills required in the increasingly competitive, diverse and dynamic business environment.

Although studying largely independently, Distance Learning MBA students get all the benefits of being at a leading international business school and gaining a globally recognised qualification. You will also get access to all of our learning, careers and support services as well as our online library and academic expertise.

All our MBA programmes are made up of three stages

• Core modules – designed to help you get back in to learning and provide fundamental knowledge of management principles and theory

• Elective modules – provide an in-depth understanding of specialist topics that are essential and relevant to the contemporary commercial world. Students choose those that are of most interest or greatest career benefit

• Management project – enables you to put the knowledge and skills gained throughout the programme to practical use on a relevant management issue

Distance learning students are not required to attend any sessions at Bradford University School of Management. However students can chose to study up to three modules (each running over 3-5 days) at the School of Management or at any one of our partner institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Singapore, Manila and Dubai for no extra cost (other than travel and subsistence costs).
 

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