IIT Bombay and Washington University join hands to offer EMBA
The year 2015 has already started on the right note for IIT Bombay. IIT- Bombay has added another feather to its illustrious cap. MBA aspirants no longer have to leave the shores of the country in search of quality education as IIT-B and Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL) have come together to launch an executive MBA programme that is slotted to begin in 2015. On the 14th January, Prof. Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay and Prof. Mark Wrighton, Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis, Virginia, signed a Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) for offering Executive Master of Business Administration programme in IIT Bombay. The decision was announced during the Corporate Leaders Conclave at St Louis that concluded recently. It was also revealed that the Olin School of Business, WUSTL, in collaboration with the IIT-B will offer the EMBA course at the campus in Mumbai. WUSTL is one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. and it is claimed that the executive MBA programme from the university is the second best in America. This venture looks to do extremely well as the demand for executive MBA in the market right now is at its peak.