Why Executive MBAs are a big draw

A positive business environment, after the nasty recession, is encouraging hundreds of mid-career Indian executives to risk their jobs to do an executive MBA. Find out what is driving them to it and what is in store for them once they complete it.

Executive MBA is becoming a hot property in India today even as the MBA appears to be losing glamour. This is evident in the growing number of B-Schools and other colleges offering a mid-career education break to executives who believe it can fast-track their career and open up leadership positions.

Mid-career professionals, who joined work after their professional courses, especially with technical domains, have always felt the need to acquire an MBA. More than the urge to learn new managerial skills, they wouldn’t like to be left behind in the corporate rat race by those who come with a technical plus MBA degrees. Never mind that these double degree holders would have forgotten what their technical degree taught them and come ready to become managers.

ManagementNext spoke to a few executive MBA students at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore’s Executive Post Graduate Program (EPGP), to get a flair of what went through their minds before chucking their jobs and shelling out Why Executive MBAs are a big draw Students of the latest IIMB EPGP batch at the IIMB campus 20 ManagamentNext | Double Issue – June-July 2011 their own money (doesn’t come cheap) and do the program.

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