Companies including Dubai Airports, Aramex, Unilever and Disney are to provide UAE business school students with hands on experience of solving real world challenges.
The Hult International Business School, which has locations in the US, London, Shanghai and Dubai said on Wednesday that a pilot programme has been successful enough to be expanded to include a six-month secondment with Dubai based firms.
Teams of students on its MBA, Executive MBA and Masters programmes have spent six weeks working on projects alongside corporate executives, it said.
Business education is booming in the Arabian Gulf – and the UAE is home to campuses of six of the world’s top 100 business schools, according to this year’s Financial Times international ranking of MBA programmes.
Two of the world’s top 10 business schools have campuses in the country – London Business School (LBS), the world’s third-best, and Insead, which was ranked fifth internationally.
Emiratis made up about 35 per cent of graduates from Insead’s global executive MBA (Gemba) course in the capital last year.
Hult International Business School, which was founded in the United States, is ranked 61st.
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