Globalize Yourself!

- Vibha Singh

If you love the idea of learning about different cultures and settings, earning credit, and travelling overseas, a Study Abroad in Multi Country Locations Program might be an awesome academic choice for you! Today’s student is savvy, and often has diverse interests. A MultiCountry Study Abroad Program offers you the chance to balance your different educational pursuits with the kind of sightseeing that gets you a closer understanding of your host countries. Plus, having a more international perspective can’t hurt your next resume. In the course of doing so, they are forcing business schools to adapt the decades old model of delivering business education by moving beyond the idea of spending one or two years at a campus in one singular country.

VirenVaidya, an assistant manager at KPMG Singapore, is a Central American former retail banker of Citibank, the US-based financial services group. But, like most of his colleagues at the time, he decided against a traditional MBA program in favour of exploring education overseas.

“One of the key drivers that helped me to land the job was my international exposure – studying in France and Singapore,” says Vaidya, a graduate of France-based ESSEC Business School’s Global MBA. “This is the most valuable thing – the opportunity to be with different cultures and understand the difference between economies, to perform business in those regions,” Vaidya says.

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