I have heard that a couple of Uni's are offerring International MBA's at local CMai Uni's. Taught in English yet you add a language or 2 to the course.

Does anyone know which ones are offerring and the costs. I gather you can complete in 2 years.

Cheers JAY

Payap University is the only university in Chiang Mai that offers an International MBA taught completely in English. It is taught on the weekend. During the week, if you want, you can study intensive Thai for the language requirement to your opening post. It is one of the top language programs in Chiang Mai that is taught by university instructors. That means they have a masters degree or better in the subject they are teaching.

Mae Fah Luang has an MBA (English Program) on their website, but they also add on their website that currently they are not teaching the English MBA. That might have changed as some websites don't get updated along with the program. If anyone has any updates about about Mae Fah Luang please post it.

Ramkhamhaeng University is the largest university in Thailand with over 500,000 students. The way they work is to use classrooms of high schools in different cities and hire local people to teach their curriculum for their programs. They do have an MBA program that might be taught in Chiang Mai.

If you have any questions about Payap, please send me a private message. According to ThaiVisa rules I am not allowed to advertise specifics (such as price, website etc.) about our programs in the general forums and I am trying to respect their rules.

I'm currently an MBA student at Payap. I can't put into words how good it has been for me. Two reasons; 1) The academics is excellent. I've had teachers from all over the world, some have Harvard and Oxford degrees, some teach at prestigious schools in BKK, one teacher worked at The World Bank and the Asian Dev. Bank, ect. We use American made textbooks. 2) and just as important, is the diversity in the classrooms is in itself a learning lesson. In a classroom of 10, you will have people from 8 different countries, so when a subject is being brought up by the teacher you will get 8 different points of view (students come from democratic, socialists, communist, dictatorship, etc.countries.) so that is a huge benefit.

I can honestly say I feel I am a different person because of the things I've learned and the people I've met. Just like traveling the world expands the mine, sitting in a classroom full of educated people of different nationalities discussing business, morals,ethics, etc. is very eye opening.

But you have to be dedicated as the teachers expect a lot. Plenty of exams and lots of projects, papers and research with a lot of discussion on current events. A thesis paper and written/oral examinations after you've finished your classes. Total cost is a little over 200,000THB, a steal. Classes are all day Sat. and Sun.