According to a report last week in the Financial Times, the MIT Sloan School of Management is joining forces with four international business schools to launch a new one-year masters degree program in management studies.
Students working toward an MBA at any of the four participating schools – HEC Paris, Tsinghua in Beijing, Fudan in Shanghai and the SKK Graduate School of Business at Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University – now will be able to acquire the MIT Sloan degree in addition.
“The world needs more, not fewer, smart people who are trained to be leadership in management, especially now,” MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein told the FT.
The new program, which will being in the 2009-10 academic year, is expected to benefit American faculty and students at MIT Sloan as well, says MIT Sloan Deputy Dean Steven Eppinger.
“With business more global than ever, we need to do all we can to encourage connections between our faculty and students and those of some of the best management schools in the world,” Eppinger told the FT.
The inaugural class will include approximately 15 students, but the program is expected to grow to as many as 50 students per class over time.
Since his appointment last fall, Schmittlein has pushed for a series of changes designed to make MIT Sloan’s offerings more like those of its European business school counterparts. Earlier this fall, MIT Sloan announced the launch of a one-year masters program in finance.
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