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MBA in the land of tulips.

Popular for tulips,windmills, and polders (land reclaimed from marshes and fenland), Netherlands is now fastly becoming an important destination for MBA aspirants. This geographically small nation is now among the leading countries in the world in terms of well being, human developement index ,and infrastructure growth. Also known as Holland, it has 8 world class universities
and some prominent top ranked MBA programs in the world. Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University), Nyenrode Business University, and TiasNimbas are some well known names offering International MBA and other Masters programs, which are recognised all over the world for their quality. Let’s take a sneak peek into these programs.

Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University):

International MBA program of RSM is one of the recognised full time MBA program from Europe. It spans for 15 months and is quite intensive in its approach. If accreditions and rankings are your parameters, RSM holds all the three prominent accreditions from AMBA,EQUIS and AACSB. The school features in top 10 MBAs in FT rankings of 2009.

Location: Rotterdam.

Starting Date: International MBA program starts every January. The appliation deadline for this year has been extended to November 2nd 2009.

Basic Requirements: A Bachelors degree and 3 years of professional experience. A satisfactory GMAT score.


Tuition fee: 36000 Euro for the program.

Financing: Various scholarships are available to students offering partial fee waiver. ING Bank offers loans to studetns at an attractive interest rate and it covers the full tuition fee as well as the housing costs.

Nyenrode Business University:

Nyenrode’s International MBA program is one of the oldest running programme in Europe. It was launched in the year 1982. Internationl MBA has been listed in the 50 MBA programs in U.K HSMP  (Highly Skilled Migrant Programme) MBA provision along with RSM. Nyenrode Business University was founded as a private education body in 1946 by top executives of Dutch corporate giants like Akzo,KLM,Phillips,Shell and Unilever. The duration of MBA is one at Nyenrode is one year, and the programme starts in the month of January. Nyenrode’s International MBA program has double accredition from EQUIS and AMBA. Apart from the regular 12 month international programme, the students in the International MBA program can choose to undertake one of our specialization tracks.

Location: Breukelen.

Sarting date: January  7th (for 2010)

Basic Requirements: A Bachelors degree and 3 years of professional experience. A satisfactory GMAT score.

Tuition fee: 34800 Euro for the program.

Financing: Various scholarships are available to students offering partial fee waiver. ABN AMRO Bank offers loans at an attractive interest rate and it covers the full tuition fee as well as the living expenses.

TiasNimbas Business School (Tilburg University):

Tilburg University offers a one year MBA program in collboration with Eindhoven University of Technology . The duration of the program is one year and it has been listed in the 50 MBA programs in U.K HSMP MBA provision along with RSM and Nyenrode. The duration of MBA is one year, and it starts in the September month of each year.

Starting date: Septemberr 2010

Basic Requirements: A Bachelors degree and 3 years of professional experience. A satisfactory GMAT score.

Tuition fee: 32500 Euro for the program.

Financing: Several scholarships are available to students offering partial fee waiver.

Although Dutch is spoken by everyone in The Netherlands, about 70% of Dutch can communicate in English with varying level of fluency. German is also widely spoken in The Netherlands, an influence majorly caused by its physical proximity with Germany. French is spoken and understood by Dutch but not as much as the former two languages. MBA in The Netherlands provides the much needed international flavour to participants by the rich cultural diversity existing in the country. For a small country like Holland, an international orientation included in education and training is a must for survival in our increasingly globalised world. The Dutch education system is interactive and focuses on teamwork, and  cross cultural intearaction.  The Netherlands is a attractive destination for lovers of the arts, music, dance, theater, art, literature and architecture. Home to 1000 museums it is said to be the country of highest museum density. Studying MBA in Holland would mean developing an open mind and increasing your international orientation.

If you have any questions regarding this article, please free to post them in the comment section. Gargi would be glad to help.

Further Readings:

• Business School Profiles- Average Age
• Business School Profiles- Average GMAT Scores
• Business School Profiles- Average GPA
• Business School Profiles- Average Work Experience
• Business School Profiles- Class Size

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