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Zimbabwean entrepreneur Belinda Mkanganwi has no doubt where she is heading after her MBA. It’s not to a lucrative blue-chip career in the West, but a return to Harare and the consulting company she has started up. “There is so much potential in Africa. My ambition is to build an institution that grows far beyond my personal contribution. I want to be the best I can be.”

Mkanganwi had all but written off the possibility of an overseas MBA because of the cost, and focused on building her brand strategy consulting business. But a scholarship from the Kofi Annan Business Schools Foundation in the Hague made this possible and this year she began a full-time programme at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin, leaving her young family for a year in the care of her husband. Like many non-European MBA applicants, Mkanganwi intends to take her expertise home for the benefit of her native economy. “Becoming an entrepreneur in post-hyperinflationary Zimbabwe was character building. Although getting work in a recovering economy was hard, I absolutely love what I do.”

Students from emerging economies make up a large proportion of European MBAs. In the UK, the most recent figures that non-EU students make up 83 per cent of all international students enrolled at business schools, according to the Association of MBAs. Last year more than 2,000 students from Asia came to business schools in Western Europe. But in the UK, many schools fear students such as Mkanganwi will be put off by new Government regulations coming into force next spring. These aim to crack down on rampant abuse by bogus colleges; by capping student visas and enforcing job restrictions.

Anxiety may be reflected in interest from international students, whose applications to UK business schools are down by five to 10 per cent this year. “The Government does not understand that MBA students are high quality and paying a lot of money,” says Professor Patricia Rees, MBA director of Manchester Metropolitan University. “If overseas students have a good experience here, they’ll be ambassadors for the rest of their lives.”

While overseas MBA graduates often consolidate their experience with a couple of years of working in Europe or the United States, they are often keen to return home, says Rachel Killian, MBA marketing and recruitment manager at Warwick Business School. “Candidates from emerging economies often show a strong sense of loyalty and commitment to the development of their own nation and so often part of their motivation for studying an MBA is to take back their new learning to invest in their country.

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UK students will have the chance to gain a full-time International MBA scholarship thanks to Business School CIMBA (Consortium Institute of Management and Business Administration) and Kepner-Tregoe, the world leading consulting and training organisation. The programme will include semesters at CIMBA in Asolo, Italy, and at the University of Iowa, US, and is open to all students resident across Europe in possession of a bachelor degree.

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UK students will have the chance to gain a full-time International MBA scholarship thanks to Business School CIMBA (Consortium Institute of Management and Business Administration) and Kepner-Tregoe, the world leading consulting and training organisation. The programme will include semesters at CIMBA in Asolo, Italy, and at the University of Iowa, US, and is open to all students resident across Europe in possession of a bachelor degree.

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http://www.relocatemagazine.

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