GMI master's program expanded to México City - Maestria de Ciencias de Administración de Fabricación - TA: Master of Science in Manufacturing Management

Hispanic Times Magazine, May-June, 1997

GMI Engineering & Management Institute's graduate management program is offering its first degree program south of the U. S. border.

Four employees of the General Motors Corporation in Mexico City have enrolled in GMI's video-based Master of Science in Manufacturing Management in a newly-established learning center in the Mexican capital. GMI has more than a hundred learning centers throughout North America. General Motors is one of 40 corporations providing sites for the GMI centers.

Under the GMI system, classes are taped in a TV studio classroom on the Flint campus and distributed weekly to the various locations. Degree programs are offered both in manufacturing management and engineering. The classes available in Mexico City are the standard courses used throughout the program. They are in English.

According to Associate Dean David Hurt, director of GMI's graduate programs, the effort in Mexico is a natural expansion of the GMI system. "The idea behind our program," he said, "is to provide advanced education in or near the students' workplaces. This can be done as easily in Mexico as it has been done in GMI's learning centers in Brownsville and El Paso, Texas or at any of our other sites? GMI has a total of six centers now operating in southern border states.

GMI is an independent college of engineering, science, and management located in Flint, Michigan. The college offers a totally cooperative undergraduate educational program with all students alternating between classroom work and on-the-job sessions with one of nearly 600 employers throughout North America. Graduate programs are offered in Flint as well as throughout North America.