Business schools until now have been operating in a single campus model with very little importance given to understanding the dynamic global business environment. Doing business across borders requires critical skills, each dependent on the location where they operate. After all, how you do business in China is different to how you do business in Australia or the United States. At S P Jain, full-time postgraduate students have the opportunity to live, study and work in three of our four international campuses in Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney. Each city is a regional hub, offering students many opportunities to experience diverse cultures, study international business practices, network with business executives and community leaders, conduct real-time projects, and pursue internships and full-time career opportunities.

Decision-Making is the life blood of a business manager, and at S P Jain, students master this skill uniquely – by participating in ‘student board rooms’ and highly advanced ‘computer-aided simulations’.

Student Board Rooms, or SBRs, as they are commonly known as, are student teams that meet every day before every class. Using decision-making techniques that they learn in class, students are required to critically analyse their reading material and case studies, and arrive at conclusions that are submitted in the form of a report. This report is a kick-off point for classroom discussion. Over the duration of the program, students learn to use scientific methods, logical reasoning and analysis to address organisational problems, and develop the critical thinking and decision-making skills that are readily applied on the job.

As businesses operate under conditions of high risk, complexity and unpredictability, it is important for business leaders to understand the many intricacies of the business world and prepare for them in a focused manner. At S P Jain, computer-aided business simulations are used extensively in our state-of-the-art Simulation Centres to enable postgraduate students to practice and sharpen their real-world and decision-making skills in an innovative, risk-free environment.

In the last six years of our short but checkered thirteen-year history, our Global MBA program has been ranked among the world’s best by international publications such as Forbes (2015-2017), The Economist (2015) and Financial Times (2011 and 2012) – an accomplishment we attribute to our unique and innovative model of business education.

In addition to living and studying in some of the world’s top economic centres, our students participate in special global learning classes where business frameworks are studied and tested. They interact with local companies and conduct real-time application-based projects that help them really understand the interconnected nature of business, the influence and impact of culture on consumer preferences and business decisions, global collaboration and best practices, and the risks of stepping out of one’s home country. In addition to the global knowledge gained, students learn to be adaptable, multicultural and globally relevant to companies of the 21st century.