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LETTERS: GLOBAL CAMPUSES
Independent, The (London), Mar 23, 2006 by Edward A Snyder
Howard Davies raises important questions about whether and how business schools are internationalising their operations. The choices are: a) do nothing outside one's home base' b) partner with others' or c) go it alone with your own campus.
The University of Chicago has decided on the third option, and to have campuses in London and Singapore. While we partner with many schools on student exchanges, research projects and non-degree programmes, we've concluded that we need to control the granting of Chicago MBAs. Why? We don't think that partnerships and joint ventures are the best organisation form to manage the several critical functions involved in an MBA programme: admissions, the academic programme itself, career support and alumni development.
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Having said that, we agree fully with Mr Davies about the impossibility of replicating the home campus overseas, and also about having multiple faculty groups around the world. For that very reason, we don't offer a full-time MBA outside Chicago. Our Executive MBA programmes use week-long modules and our faculty teaching in London are in residence for a month or less. In addition, students using the London campus start the programme in the Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago and take two academic modules in Chicago. It is indeed good to breathe the air around the mother ship.
My last point. It's great to be in London - the most connected city in the world - and to be part of the mix of superior business schools here, including our friends at LSE.
Edward A Snyder Dean, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
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