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When Abhishek Sehgal came to the U.S. to pursue an MBA at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, he expected to get some work experience in the country. But the second-year MBA student from India didnt anticipate it would be so difficult to get a visa to work after graduation. Citigroup (C), the 28-year-olds future employer, submitted his H-1B visa application on Apr. 2, the first day petitions were accepted. But the pool of applicants was already oversubscribed, and Sehgals application wasnt chosen in a random computer selection.
All was not lost. After Sehgal completed his degree requirements at McCombs this spring, he entered a visa pool for candidates with Masters degrees, but has yet to hear if he will get one. If it doesnt work out, Citigroup will take him for a one-year practical training under his student visa and reapply for him next year, allowing a four-month sabbatical during the time neither visa covers. I feel a bit sad, he says. When I was coming here, I never knew there could be a problem of this sort.
Sehgal is one of many international MBA candidates whos caught in a visa bind. With only 65,000 H-1B visas available for professional-level workers across all sectors for the 2008 fiscal year, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services received 123,480 eligible applications on Apr. 2 and Apr. 3. After a computer lottery, about half the applicants were rejected. Only 58,200 H-1B visas were subject to the lottery, as 6,800 are set aside under free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore.
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WASHINGTON, the United States has vehemently denied, the denial of a visa to one of the greatest Indian scientists, indicating that the delay was because the failure to obtain information from him.
Goverdhan Mehta, former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, had noticed that he had a visa was denied by the American consulate in Chennai, where he is suspected in chemical and biological warfare.
"Now all this for the facts, Professor Goverdhan Mehta, an eminent scientist and India is emerging, which have applied for a visa and the visa is issued," said spokesman Adam Ereli State Department.
"It was
International Mobility at Oxford
Two-thirds of Oxford MBAs find jobs outside their native countries, providing an extra challenge to the schools career-services office
The career-services team at Oxford Universitys Saïd School of Business helped 90% of the 228 full-time MBA students seeking a job in 2005 to gain employment within three months after graduation. This marks a 7% improvement from 2004.
Showing international mobility, two-thirds of Oxford MBA students found jobs outside their native countries. While only 10% to 13% of Saïd students are from Britain, 58% of graduates work in Europe. Despite a high interest in working in the U.S.,
Lessons from over the border
I worked and lived as an alien in Mexico for five years. Mexican immigration and visitor laws are rigid. All visitors are issued a three-month Tourist Card (visa) before entering the country. Like it or not, at three months you must leave the country. You may return immediately as long as you have a new visa issued out of the country.
Mexico basically does not want foreign workers. A few with special skills are allowed when there is no alternative. When that happens, we are fingerprinted and told that: we cannot own property; our children can not
More mainlanders taking entrance exam
THE number of Chinese students applying for the Graduate Management Admission Test, a globally recognized business school entrance exam, has risen for the second year in a row due to lower American visa restrictions and Chinas growing demand for MBAs.
Officials with the Graduate Management Admission Council, the United States-based GMAT organizer, revealed in the city yesterday that 4,076 people took the GMAT test on the Chinese mainland from last July to this June, accounting for 2.6 percent of all examinees around the world.
The number of mainland test takers rose about 21 percent from the
Swansea business school in world class
Swansea University School of Business and Economics is celebrating official recognition of the high quality of its Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes.
AMBA, the Association of MBAs, has accredited Swanseas full-time and Executive MBAs to its prestigious and internationally recognised global standard for postgraduate management education.
And the AMBA recognition means that Swansea Universitys Business School is the only one in Wales to offer accredited full-time and part-time MBAs. The only other accredited MBA in Wales is the full-time programme at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Other MBAs offered by Welsh institutions have not been assessed
MBAs are growing not only in number but variety and content.
A report by The Independent shows that over the last 10 years, the number of MBA schools on the continent has grown exponentially.
There are now at least 500, although according to the report, barely a third have the sector’s gold standard seal of approval – accreditation by Britain’s Association of MBAs (AMBA).
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Forecast: MBA Hiring Up Again
The hiring of MBA graduates is surging this academic year, with employers expecting to bring in 22.1% more MBA grads in 2007 than they did in 2006, according to a survey of companies across the country. An improved economy, business growth and employee retirement all contribute to this escalating demand for newly minted MBAs, says Andrea Koncz, employment information manager for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). And with growing industries comes growing competition to attract the best and brightest.
At JP Morgan (JPM), hiring of MBAs is up between 10 and 15% this
Where Do MBAs Want To Work
Fortune magazine recently published a list of the companies where the most MBA graduates say they want to start their careers. The winner in what Fortune calls the popularity contest for companies is the consulting company McKinsey & Co. The list of the top 100 companies includes large and small companies from a variety of industries; everything from Disney to the CIA. You an also see the differences in the list when filtered by womens preferred companies and see the breakdown by industries.
Its not surprising that MBAs want to work for a consulting firm
New research shows demand for MBAs at record high across the globe
New research has shown that demand for MBA s is up 24% in 2006 across a range of industries, with the management consulting sector reporting the highest rise at a massive 38%.
As a result MBA salaries are also on the rise – up 7.5% on last year. In the key US and Western European job markets – still the largest employers of business school graduates around the world – recruiters are reporting average base salaries for new MBAs of US $90,500 (£48,000). Bonuses are also up to an average
For years, China's blistering economy encouraged its best and brightest students to go abroad, get MBAs and return to steer its regional and national companies on the rise.
Later, with demand still teeming, Western institutions teamed up with Chinese schools to provide Western MBAs on the ground in China.
Now, homegrown Chinese MBA schools are emerging with a local edge to rival the cachet of Western-laced ones.pipeline.
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