Manchester Business School (MBS) has honoured its second batch of MBA graduates from the Middle East Regional Centre in Dubai. 16 Middle East graduates (14 male and two female) were awarded the same University of Manchester MBA degrees as full time students who study on campus in Manchester. The new graduates were honoured at a recent gala dinner held at the Armani Hotel in Dubai, organized by the MBS Alumni Association – Middle East, which the MBS Dean attended as guest of honour.
Of the 16 new MBA graduates from the Middle East, five graduated with merit, which is a special honour for top performing graduates. MBS launched its part time executive MBA programmes in the region in 2006 and has now has over 850 MBA students in the Middle East; the MBA graduates join a worldwide MBS alumni network of more than 27,000 business professionals. All the MBA students are experienced working professionals residing in the Middle East region.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony at the Alumni Association–Middle East gala dinner in Dubai, Michael Luger, Dean of Manchester Business School, commented: "We are enormously proud of our achievements in the UAE since our launch here only four years ago. The UAE is an exciting business hub for the region and we are delighted to play our part in the development of its human capital. There is superb support and infrastructure at DubaiKnowledgeVillage but it is the excellent quality of our Middle East MBA students, now numbering over 850, which puts them amongst the best in the world. We congratulate our new graduates who will now benefit from their world class business skills, as well as the global MBS alumni network."
The MBS Middle East International Executive Centre at DubaiKnowledgeVillage is the largest and fastest growing of the seven centres in the MBS international network and offers the Manchester Global MBA with four learning pathways. In addition to the MBA programmes, the school also offers the DBA programme in the Middle East, and supports all its students and graduates through the Global Careers Service which was first launched in Dubai earlier in 2010.
