Local students proving their worth at Australian MBA programme

Bojan Mandic (right) with a Nations University student

With an overall percentage success rate of between 85 and 90 per cent, Guyanese students pursuing the Australian Institute of Business (AIB) Master of Business Administration (MBA) have been a credit to the institution, visiting Student Support Manager Bojan Mandic told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week.

Mandic is on a brief routine visit to Georgetown to touch base with senior officials of the Kingston-based Nations Univer-sity, the local institution that delivers the MBA programme. He said that from the AIB’s standpoint the real value of the programme is that it is “work-applied,” that is, that both in its course work and its final project it is primarily concerned with responding to the requirements of the students and their respective workplaces. Mandic said it was important to AIB that the MBA programme responded to needs in countries where it was being offered.

Ranked 20th in the world amongst MBA programmes being offered, the AIB 12-subject course of studies commenced at