Case Study: MBA Schools in Asia-Pacific The pursuit of a higher education degree in business is now international. A survey shows more and more Asians choose the master of business administration (MBA) degree route to corporate success. As a result, the number of applicants for MBA courses at Asia-Pacific schools continues to increase. Across the region, thousands of Asians show an increasing willingness to temporarily shelve their careers and spend two years in pursuit of a theoretical business qualification. Courses in these schools are notoriously tough and include statistics, economics, banking, marketing, behavioral sciences, labor relations, decision making, strategic thinking, business law, and more. After your MBA, you get a job at Bloomberg in its media division, Bloomberg Business. Your division publishes reviews and rankings for business schools in the US and internationally. Because of your strong analytical education from University of Phoenix, your boss assigns you to work on preparing an analysis for data gathered for leading business schools in the Asia-Pacific. The data set in the Excel file shows some of the characteristics of the leading Asia-Pacific business schools. Business School Melbourne Business School University of New South Wales (Sydney) Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) Chinese University of Hong Kong International University of Japan (Niigata) Asian Institute of Management (Manila) Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) National University of Singapore Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) Australian National University (Canberra) Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) University of Queensland (Brisbane) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Sydney) Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) Monash Mt. Eliza Business School (Melbourne) Asian Institute of Management (Bangkok) University of Adelaide Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (Bombay) Curtin Institute of Technology (Perth) Lahore University of Management Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang) De La Salle University (Manila) Students Local Foreign Full-Time per Tuition Tuition Enrollment Faculty ($) ($) 200 5 24,420 29,600 228 4 19,993 32,582 392 5 4,300 4,300 90 5 11,140 11,140 126 4 33,060 33,060 389 5 7,562 9,000 380 5 3,935 16,000 147 6 6,146 7,170 463 8 2,880 16,000 42 2 20,300 20,300 50 5 8,500 8,500 138 17 16,000 22,800 60 2 11,513 11,513 12 8 17,172 19,778 200 7 17,355 17,355 350 13 16,200 22,500 300 10 18,200 18,200 20 19 16,426 23,100 30 15 13,106 21,625 30 7 13,880 17,765 240 9 1,000 1,000 98 15 9,475 19,097 70 14 11,250 26,300 30 5 2,260 2,260 44 17 3,300 3,600 Age %Foreign GMAT 28 47 Yes 29 28 Yes 22 0 No 29 10 Yes 28 60 Yes 25 50 Yes 23 1 Yes 29 51 Yes 23 0 No 30 80 Yes 32 20 Yes 32 26 No 26 37 Yes 34 27 No 25 6 Yes 30 30 Yes 29 90 No 30 10 No 37 35 No 32 30 No 24 0 No 29 43 Yes 23 2.5 No 32 15 No 28 3.5 Yes Starting English Work Salary Test Experience ($) No Yes 71,400 No Yes 65,200 No No 7,100 No No 31,000 Yes No 87,000 No Yes 22,800 No No 7,500 Yes Yes 43,300 No No 7,400 Yes Yes 46,600 No Yes 49,300 No Yes 49,600 No Yes 34,000 No Yes 60,100 No Yes 17,600 Yes Yes 52,500 Yes Yes 25,000 No Yes 66,000 Yes Yes 41,400 Yes Yes 48,900 No Yes 7,000 No Yes 55,000 No No 7,500 Yes Yes 16,000 No Yes 13,100