미국의 비즈니스위크지 선정 세계베스트 MBA 탑 20안에 선정되었고 세계적인 인증기관인 AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB 등 3대 인증기관으로부터 인증을 받은 전세계 1%밖에 없는 Business School중의 하나인 Ashridge Business School이 HULT International Business School과 전략적 제휴를 하였다는 소식이 Ashridge Business School 홈페이지에 올라와 있습니다. 그 소식을 좀 더 자세히 전하면 아래와 같습니다.
Ashridge and Hult form strategic alliance
London, 4 July 2014: Ashridge Business School and Hult International Business School have announced, subject to final legal confirmation, an agreement to enter into a strategic alliance. In the short term, the two organisations will be collaborating closely and in the longer term, the aim is to merge the top management across the two organisations.
두 비즈니스 스쿨이 전략적 제휴를 하기로 합의하였다는 소식을 전하면서 단기적으로는 두 비즈니스 스쿨이 밀접하게 협력할 것이고 장기적으로는 두 조직을 하나로 합칠것이라고 합니다.
The vision is to create the world’s most relevant business school for employers. By bringing together Ashridge’s expertise in executive and organisation development and research with Hult’s global reach and scale in degree programmes, the alliance seeks to provide full service business education for global organisations.
이 비젼은 고용주(사업가)들을 위한 세계 최고의 비즈니스스쿨을 만드는 것입니다. Ashridge의 executive와 조직개발 그리고 연구에서의 전문성과 Hult의 학위프로그램에서의 글로벌 능력과 스케일을 함께 결합시키므로써 그 제휴는 글로벌조직들에게 완전한 비즈니스교육서비스를 제공하게 될 것입니다.
The alliance will be able to offer employers an integrated, multi-location and multi-language portfolio of executive and organisation development, research and degree programmes. Significant investment will be made in each of these areas:
그 제휴는 사업가들에게 임원의 통합된 멀티로케이션, 멀틴언어, 조직개발, 연구와 학위프로그램등을 제공할 수 있을 것입니다. 중요한 투자가 아래분야에서 이루어 질 것입니다.(아래는 참고삼아 읽어 보면 도움이 될 것입니다)
- Executive and organisation development : Expand Ashridge’s highly ranked executive education capability to serve corporate clients all around the world through new locations
- Research: Build on Ashridge’s research capability with particular emphasis on two areas: (1) insights relevant to the needs of corporate executives and (2) the effectiveness of management education
- Degree programmes: Expand the combined range of undergraduate and graduate programmes, including new online offerings
Under this strategic alliance, Ashridge and Hult will remain for the foreseeable future as separate entities, with their own brands, programmes and management. The discussions leading to the alliance have been led by the Governors of the Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust, the charity under which the business school operates.
The alliance will be a leading force in management education focused on blending business practice with business theory. The alliance will be highly ranked across all major business education categories and have campuses around the world.
“By combining Ashridge’s expertise in organisation development and Hult’s strength in developing individual leaders, our ambitious vision is to become the best and most relevant provider of leadership development in the world,” said Dr Stephen Hodges, President, Hult International Business School.
“The alliance brings together complementary organisations, both of which are run by business people for business people. We share a philosophy that learning has to be informed by the realities of business, as well as the theory,” said Kai Peters, CEO, Ashridge.
NOTES TO EDITORS
About Ashridge
Established in 1959, Ashridge is a leading business school for working professionals with an international reputation for leadership development. It is in the 1% of business schools globally accredited by AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB; the UK, European and American accreditation bodies. Each year it works with over 6,000 managers from 850 organisations in 60 countries. www.ashridge.org.uk
About Hult
Hult is the world's most international business school with campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and Shanghai, and a rotation centre in New York. The school offers MBA, Executive MBA, Master and Bachelor degree programmes. Hult's one-year MBA programme was ranked Top 5 in International Business and International Experience by the Financial Times in 2014. For more information, go to www.hult.edu
Ashridge Business School의 입학지원자격은 아래와 같습니다.
<li>Your realistic and clear career goals and how an MBA fits with these. < /li><li>Your understanding of the distinctive features of the Ashridge MBA. < /li><li>Your ability to contribute in an environment of small groups and peer learning. < /li><li>Your ability to work independently within a virtual environment.</li>
그리고 admmission requirement는 아래와 같습니다.
GMAT조건은 어렵지 않으나 영어조건이 상당히 어려운 편입니다. IBT 100점, IELTS 7.0이상을 요구하고 있습니다. 그리고 학비는 32500파운드로 한화로 5500만원이 조금 넘습니다. 즉, 영어점수는 HULT보다 좀 더 높게 요구하고 있으나, 학비는 HULT보다는 저렴한 편입니다. 장학금부분이 어떤지는 확인해보아야 하겠습니다.
가장 세계적인 비즈니스스쿨인 HULT International Business School과 세계 3대기관의 인증을 모두 받은 영국의 명문 Ashridge Business School의 발전과 시너지를 기원합니다. 두 학교 MBA 모두 반달곰원장이 좋아하는 1년제 MBA입니다. 두 학교의 입학과정에 대해서 궁금한 점이 있으신 분은 반달곰원장에게 연락주시길 바랍니다. 친절하게 컨설팅 해드리겠습니다.
