INSEAD, a leading business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore, has plans to offer an MBA program in the United States, according to a recent report in PoetsandQuants.
The details of the program are not yet clear. “But we will offer some degree, either the MBA or the Executive MBA,” INSEAD Dean Dipak Jain told PandQ. “We are not sure whether we would do it alone or with someone. But definitely we want to increase our presence in the U.S.”
Through a 10-year alliance with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, INSEAD has provided opportunities for MBA student and faculty exchanges between the two schools, and it has also offered some joint executive education programs. But that has been the limit of its U.S. offerings until now.
The PandQ report points out that an INSEAD MBA program in the U.S., especially were it to follow the model of its European and Asian format requiring just 10 months to complete the degree, would present significant competition to existing top-tier MBA programs in the U.S.
In his interview with PandQ, Jain suggested that a deeper alliance with Wharton or a standalone INSEAD campus in the U.S. were both possibilities.
Over the course of INSEAD’s alliance with Wharton, more than 1,000 MBA students have participated in the exchange program between the two schools, according to the PandQ report.
Jain, who served as dean of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management from 2001 to 2009, succeeded INSEAD Dean Frank Brown in March. In his interview with PandQ, he noted that the partnership with Wharton has been important in allowing the U.S. school to assess the quality of INSEAD faculty and students over the past decade. “They have to feel that we have the same quality they have,” he said. “In that sense, it has been a very good thing. Now the next step is how do we take the relationship forward?”
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