HYDERABAD: The Open University, UK has announced that the admissions to their MBA programme will close on March 19 and the two-and-half year (30 months) course is scheduled to begin in May 2010.
 
The Open University MBA (OUMBA), a flagship programme of The Open University Business School (OUBS), is run in India as part of a joint venture with the global publishing and media group, Pearson.
 
Open University is the world’s first global varsity to launch the OUMBA pilot locally, supported by marketing, delivery and intellectual property infrastructure provided by Pearson.
 
The OUMBA programme is a 30-month distance learning programme made up of five modules, each focusing on a specific area.
 
Whilst it is primarily a distance learning programme, it also includes four residential global exchange events which will take learners to cities such as Dublin, London, Singapore and Istanbul.
 
“Today, retaining talent has become a major challenge for most management’s. The Open University has become a strategic partner to corporate and entrepreneurial India by establishing relationships with IBM, HCL and Wipro wherein these organisations are recommending the MBA to their talent staff as part of their talent retention and development schemes,” said Richard Kemp, Co-Director MBA Executive Experience at The Open University.
 
The OUMBA program is accredited by AASCB, AMBA, EFMD and CEL which makes The Open University Business School a part of the elite group of less than one per cent of business schools worldwide that has won quadruple accreditation.
 
The OUBS has probably the largest alumni network and programme membership within this elite number.  One in five UK MBA students studies with The Open University.
 
 In the 40 years since its inception, over 3,50,000 people around the globe have graduated from The UK’s Open University. Over 25,000 of the current 43,000 Open University Business School students live beyond UK borders and 70 per cent are in full time employment.
 
All requisite information with respect to the admission process, the curriculum, etc is available on the website www.mbaopen.net. You can also call Ms. Kajari Bharadwaj on +919910777168 or write to her at k.bharadwaj@open.ac.uk for more information.