Article about the entering of students in different M.B.A programs during covid-19.
International M.B.A. programs, especially those in Europe and Canada, are seeing an increase in interest from prospective students who want to stay closer to home and from students in Asia and Latin America increasingly turned off to studying in the U.S.
Brandon Kirby, director of M.B.A. recruitment and admissions at Erasmus University’s RSM in the Netherlands, said the school had seen an increase in M.B.A. applications over the past several years from the Middle East, Thailand, the Philippines and parts of Latin America. He said the students are attracted to the country’s visa system and its shorter, less expensive one-year M.B.A. Next to this, more domestic students in the Netherlands are applying to stay closer to home and are interested in the program’s part-time or executive programs that allow them to keep their jobs in their home country rather than depart for the U.S.