An international medical degree, has been, and from what it seems, will still continue to be a popular choice for many students. The catch, though, is the legal requirement to obtain a license to practice medicine as a foreigner. Many of the countries listed below have rather convoluted licensure procedures that we are not going … Read more
Education is a five-course meal with PhD as the ultimate dessert at the end of it all. Having said that, not all fields of study have had a long history of crowning a doctorate degree. It has traditionally been the highest degree in the sciences, and social sciences. Somewhere in the middle of the previous … Read more
Bulge-bracket investment banks are global investment banks with customers such as governments, large corporations, and institutions. They provide services such as equity research, sales and trading, asset management, advisory assistance and underwriting. Bulge-bracket banks offer innovative financial products, ranging from equities and commodities derivatives to credit, mortgage, and insurance packages, crafted from their sustained research … Read more
A walk on the beach, a country side vacation, a water park trip, or simply a whole lot of lazy afternoons, are usually the defining features of summer time. A hiatus in the scholastic ventures of student life. So why interrupt the trance, with productivity and learning, with an international b-school’s summer program? Do these … Read more
In the interest of being accurate, yet vague, the best that GMAT experts can divulge is umm, well…it depends… Why? Because the GMAT exam is a standardized test, making it available to anyone, from any background, who chooses to appear for it. However, it is also the standardized test which is widely used to select … Read more
Duke Kunshan University – a partnership between Duke University (USA) and Wuhan University (China) – offers a Master of Management Studies (MMS) program aimed at new college graduates and young professionals. The unique 10-month program offers an opportunity for international students to live and study on two campuses in two countries and experience American and … Read more
In the early 1990s, Kevin Taweel, a Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) student, was considering his job options just before graduation. Offers from many large corporations had come his way, but the prospect of being chained to a desk at an office, however posh, did not appeal to him very much. He wanted to … Read more
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is part of Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. It was in 1946 that Cornell University, an Ivy League university, established the “School for Business and Public Administration,” offering MBA and MPA degrees. The first-year course fee was a princely sum of $200. In 1984, Samuel … Read more
The phrase “Career Change” can conjure up feelings that range from anticipation to fear. The path to starting afresh, in a new field, is riddled with uncertainties, insecurities, and most of all, unfamiliarities. The concept of a career has been traditionally defined at the outset of ones secondary school, or undergraduate degree. If you choose … Read more
America is a honey pot for the swarm of international students that make their way into its world renowned education system. Among the top countries, that make up the total of the over 1 million international students, China is the largest exporter of knowledge seekers. In 2015/16, there were 328,547 Chinese students enrolled in US … Read more
The US has not always been a “land of opportunity” it is touted to be today. Hardly 50 years ago, it wasn’t a land of opportunity for even its own people. Minorities and women were prohibited from applying to universities or for higher-level jobs in their own country. Discrimination was legal and masqueraded as state … Read more
For the past 20 years, Western universities have made hay from their shining popularity among students the world over, particularly China and India. Western economies have also reaped benefits from these students staying on after graduation and joining their workforce. But now, more and more international graduates are rediscovering a taste for homemade pie, as … Read more