The National Management School opens in Chennai

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Chennai: India’s academic capital Chennai becomes the home base for The National Management School – the country’s first Management school to be promoted and managed by a team of Academicians from the US. Set up at a capital outlay of Rs. 3 crores, the Chennai facility is the first in a chain of schools to come up across the country.

The National Management schools will open doors to MBA aspirants for the academic year June 2009. The full time 2-year Postgraduate Program in Management is offered in collaboration with the Georgia State University. The diploma will be co-signed by the Deans of both the National Management School and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at the Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.

Speaking to media on the occasion of the launch, Dr. Sankaran P. Raghunathan, Dean, said “The National Management School will set a new and much desired trend of Insourcing American education, with 100 Professors from the US who are PhDs, many of them chaired professors, and will create the foundation for a complete global management education.”

This will be complimented by mentoring by the unique CXO panel comprising over 75 Indian C level executives. The National Management School thus presents Indian MBA aspirants with a peerless learning experience which traverses the best of international cultural and work practices with feet on the ground exposure to current practices in the industry across twelve sectors of the industry, government and society.

Besides the benefit of international academic expertise and the corporate experience, the students will have global exposure, as they will be required to select two countries of choice, as part of their curriculum to not only become familiar with the business customs and practices specific to these countries, but also understand how business is uniquely done in those countries. This will enrich them with the real time experience of acquiring global exposure.

The new venture is founded by a team of professors and spear-headed by Dean Sankaran, who himself is a Professor of International Business, formerly with Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey and at Emory University. The Board of Governors includes a cross section of renowned academicians and consultants -- Prof. P.V. Indiresan, Former Director, IIT Madras, Fr. P.D. Thomas, Former Director, XLRI, Dr. R.K. Raghavan, Former Director, CBI, and Dr. V. Kumar, Professor of Marketing, Georgia State University.