Ranked #1 in the World
These 35 professionals in Monterrey, Mexico, are about to start their MBA finance class. But here’s the catch: while they sit in a classroom in EGADE (the graduate school of business of Tec de Monterrey), the professor will be lecturing from Thunderbird’s main campus in Arizona, and another 100 students will be attending the same lecture from about 12 locations in Mexico, Central and South America.
A combination of satellite and Internet technology, and an innovative pedagogical model built on it, has already allowed more than 1,300 people like these to obtain their joint Thunderbird-Tec de Monterrey Global MBA degree, advance in their careers (many with top international assignments) and develop friendships and connections throughout the continent. (Below are a few of the many faculty and staff members that make the program work, including the new dean of ESADE and Thunderbird professor emeritus Rob Grosse, as well as current students and graduates).
Tec de Monterrey (or ITESM) is a leading university in Mexico and Latin America and the oldest academic partner of Thunderbird. More importantly, it is one of the most innovative universities in the world as they keep defying traditional assumptions in higher education. They were one of the first universities to develop a Virtual University to provide technology-supported education (including the joint program with Thunderbird) when mainstream educators argued against it. More recently, they created Tec Milenio a university that seeks inclusion rather than exclusion, and that is already providing opportunities of professional development to thousands of students.
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