University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Opens Asian Campus SINGAPORE, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-Asianet/ -- The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business today opened a campus in Singapore and became the first business school with permanent campuses in Asia, Europe and the U.S. The Asian campus offers an executive M.B.A. program taught by the same faculty who teach at the school's Chicago and Barcelona campuses. Noted for its world-renowned professors, the University of Chicago has a record 71 recipients of the Nobel Prize who have been faculty members, students or researchers. Its Graduate School of Business was the first business school to have a Nobel laureate on its faculty. There are now five faculty or former faculty of the business school who have been honored with a Nobel Prize. The executive M.B.A. program at Singapore is taught in 16 one-week modules spread over 20 months to allow business executives to continue working full time and travel from throughout Asia to attend classes. The first module begins on Sunday (September 17). The 84 students enrolled in this pioneer cohort, the maximum that can be accommodated, include top executives traveling from 15 countries throughout Asia, including Japan, China, India and Australia. Some of the students are even citizens of the U.S. and several European countries who are living and working in Asia. "This represents the first time a business school is offering a globally integrated executive M.B.A. program on three continents taught entirely by its regular faculty at permanent campus locations," said Robert S. Hamada, dean of the Graduate School of Business. Hamada made his remarks at an opening ceremony here, which included presentations by Singapore President S.R. Nathan and Chicago Professor Robert Fogel, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in economics. Each student in the Asian program will spend four weeks taking classes with students in the University of Chicago's European and North American executive M.B.A. programs. For part of those four weeks, the Asian participants will travel to Barcelona and Chicago, and during the remainder of the global interchange students from the European and North American programs will travel to Singapore. The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business offers seven full-time and part-time M.B.A. programs in addition to a Ph.D. in business. Current enrollment includes approximately 2,700 M.B.A. students, and 100 Ph.D. students. The school pioneered executive business education in 1943, when it established the first executive M.B.A. program in the world. SOURCE: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business CONTACT: Allan Friedman, 773-702-9232 or Akieva Harrell, 773-834-1984 or Barbara Backe, 773-702-4282, all of University of Chicago Graduate School of Business-END-