Gordon Brown gave a gift to the haute bourgeoisie. Any graduate of the top 50 MBA programs can automatically get a 1-year work visa in the UK. The idea is that UK managers are such crap that the Treasury is desperate to get decent talent here.
What is the MBA Provision?
The 2004 Budget announced a new provision for graduates of 50 top business schools to work in the UK for up to 12 months on completing their MBAs. This provision will form part of the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP).
The HSMP is designed to attract highly skilled people to the UK to seek and take work. The MBA provision within this addresses the weakness in the UK economy in the quality of management by attracting highly qualified and talented managers to the UK. The Masters in Business Administration remains one of the most recognised and respected management qualifications.
full details@:
http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/working_in_the_uk/en/homepage/schemes_and_programmes/hsmp/mba_provision.htmlThe Treasury list can be found here:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/pre_budget_report/prebud_pbr04/assoc_docs/prebud_pbr04_admba.cfmAnd the top 50 are (in order of designated excellence):
Harvard Business School (USA)
Columbia Business School (USA)
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton (USA)
IMD (SWI)
University of Chicago (USA)
Dartmouth College: Tuck (USA)
Stanford University (USA)
Insead (FR/Sing)
University of Oxford: Said (UK)
MIT: Sloan (USA)
Ashridge (UK)
North Western: Kellogg (USA)
London Business School (UK)
New York University: Stern (UK)
University of Strathclyde (UK)
Lese Business School (SP)
Yale School of Management (USA)
Warwick Business School (UK)
City University: Cass (UK)
Rotterdam School of Management (Neth)
UC Berkeley: Haas (USA)
University of Cambridge: Judge (UK)
Georgetown University: McDonough (USA)
Instituto de Empresa (SP)
Cornell University: Johnson (USA)
University of Michigan (USA)
Duke University: Fuqua (USA)
University of Virginia: Darden (USA)
Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
SDA Bocconi (IT)
Emory University: Goizueta (USA)
UCLA: Anderson (USA)
Manchester Business School (UK)
Cranfield School of Management (UK)
University of Toronto: Rotman (CAN)
University College Dublin: Smurfit (IRE)
University of Southern California: Marshall (USA)
University of Rochester: Simon (USA)
Vanderbilt University: Owen (USA)
Rice University: Jones (USA)
University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler (USA)
Babson College: Olin (USA)
Melbourne Business School (AUS)
Ceibs (CHN)
Australian Graduate School of Management (AUS)
Universiteit Nyenrode (NTH)
University of Western Ontario: Ivey (USA)
Boston University School of Management (USA)
University of Maryland: Smith (USA)
Bradford School of Management/Nimbas (UK/NTH/GER)
