AS A PhD student at Oxford University, Cleo Choong spent most of her waking hours at the lab, researching ways to help heal damaged bones with biodegradable material.

When she returned to Singapore, the bioengineering graduate wanted to market her work, but didn’t know where to start.

‘I was lacking skills in areas like finance and management,’ said Dr Choong, 29.

So, she enrolled in the executive MBA programme at at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in July 2007.

Dr Choong represents a new breed of student that the university’s Nanyang Business School is trying to attract.

Spring Singapore chairman Philip Yeo, who helms the school’s advisory board, said that many fresh graduates in science and engineering had a strong technical grounding.

However, they lacked equally important skills in other areas, such as training, managing and retaining staff, for example.

‘We want future technical people to become CEOs of start-ups,’ he said, calling MBA training a necessity, not a luxury.

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Ahmedabad’s Indian Institute of Management (IIM) observed among the world’s leading management schools-100 in a study published by the prestigious London based weekly, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

IIM Ahmedabad 64th place with only four other schools in Asia made the list.

Others on the list of Hong Kong University’s School of Business (ranked 68th), International University of Japan’s Graduate School of International Management (84); The Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (93) and the China Europe International Business School (95th).

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management on a ranking of the EIU for a complete listing his MBA in time for the third consecutive year.

India is proud that IIM Ahmedabad has been at the forefront in the category “open up new career opportunities,” followed by Dartmouth College-Tuck School of Business and Kellogg.

The study uses four parameters for classifying, where opinions of students and graduates account for 26 percent of the score of each school.

The rest was established on the basis of data in a school questionnaire.