S P Jain School of Global Management’s innovative approach to post-grad education

With a unique tri-city model in Singapore, Dubai and Sydney, the school is reinventing business education to craft business leaders of the 21st century.

Faced with diminishing employee tenure and prevalent employment uncertainty, both employers and employees increasingly view post-graduate education as an unnecessary gamble. One school, however, believes that investing in a sound post-graduate education is still the way to go.

S P Jain School of Global Management believes post-graduate education is exactly what the country’s economy needs. “As a highly advanced economy, Singapore needs to move beyond a knowledgeable workforce, into an innovative workforce. The government is encouraging skills upgrades, and businesses need talented leaders to drive new growth,” asserts Prof. CJ Meadows, S P Jain School of Global Management, Director of i2i, The Innovations and Insights Centre.

“However, with increasingly intense quarterly profit pressure, employers are more wary of sponsoring employee MBA’s. Furthermore, employees themselves are more wary of investing in long-term programs in the face of changing and losing jobs,” she adds.

The school provides exceptional value to both employers’ businesses and students’ careers. With a good brand name, relevant learning, practical skills, and a useful network to tap into for future business opportunities, the school enhances not only competitive advantage, but cooperative advantage, as well.

“S P Jain School of Global Management is a Forbes Top 20 international business school, so ours is a branded, quality education,” says Prof. Veena Jadhav, Assistant Dean – GMBA & MGB. S P Jain is focused on experiential learning and decision making in the face of uncertainty.

“We help our students tap into our global network of alumni and business leaders for projects, internships, jobs, and new business initiatives. In Singapore, this is especially useful to SME’s, who are under increasing pressure for innovation and growth,” adds Jadhav.

Employers and students want immediate business impact. S P Jain addresses this by having Executive MBA students bring their current business problems into the classroom for group problem-solving not only providing immediate value to the businesses, but also engendering more creative solutions by including students from other countries and industries in the problem-solving teams.
Another unique feature that sets the S P Jain education apart is their tri-city model of education, which fosters more global-minded business leaders.

In the model, students study in three campuses, namely, Singapore, Dubai, and Sydney where they are exposed to the Asian, Middle Eastern, and Western business environments respectively. This develops highly adaptable, globally rooted, global-business ready graduates through Industry Immersion Projects, industry visits, Visiting Wisdom & CEO talks.

“Our out-of-class activities include student projects, global learning sessions, and field visits,” says Meadows.

S P Jain also boasts of Business Education 2.0, where students not only learn business tools and concepts, but also develop global intelligence in and out of the classroom, and proficiency in real-world skills.

They develop global awareness and conduct rigorous analysis, creating corporate-ready graduates. The School is offering blended learning, combining online and face-to-face delivery.Students participate in webinars conducted by faculty, as well as virtual classes, in an effort to better assimilate core concepts via self-paced, on-demand learning. They also engage in interactive, discovery-oriented learning in classrooms, where every subject includes a computer-aided simulation, nurturing critical and lateral thinking.

Apart from these offerings, SP Jain is continuously developing new Executive Education programs (e.g. Design Thinking for Insight Innovation) and offers proactive career services across multiple regions.