Vietnam - My Choice for Work and Living

 But the allure of her teaching time in Hung Vuong University for some medical projects in Phu Tho kept Lia stay longer than her early plan.    

 

Without the Hanoi-based Hawaii eMBA program, Lia’s life would have turned into another direction. In her fourth year in Vietnam, Lia planned to take an eMBA course in America since “I met many MBA graduates from America and I found they have very strong knowledge background”. Like other netizens, Lia started by Googling with eMBA as the key word to search for an international standard eMBA program in America. The eMBA of Hawaii University in Manoa caught her eyes because it was the only American eMBA in Vietnam that offers AACSB certificates. “I get to know that this is an excellent program. You will be astonished by Hawaii natural beauty and the diversity of languages and cultures of many Asian people living in Hawaii”, says Lia. One thing that impresses her most was that she could study in Vietnam, that meant she did not have to stop her interesting job in Vietnam. Quality of this MBA program is assured as the same as it is in Hawaii, Honolulu but the price is just as half as in America ($41,000), Japan ($39,064) or China ($39,630).

 

This twenty-month program had proved that her choice was the right one. The program attracted many international students, 20-30% of them were from developed countries such as America, Japan, Belgium, Korea, New Zealand, and Russia... Lia and her fellow students were very pleasured to know that Hawaii MBA was ranked among top 25 business training programs in America (US News) and accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) by judging 26 strict criteria such as teaching quality, professors quality, facility, admission requirements, students ability, teaching methodology etc...

 

According to Lia, the quality of Hawaii program in Vietnam is believed to be the same as it is in America. “Professors of the two programs are the same. They are from Hawaii, come to teach in Hanoi, then in Ho Chi Minh City and back to Hawaii. Students do not have to study online classes but they attend lectures and acquire experience, knowledge and skills from professors face-to-face. Many professors are also businesspersons thus they have a lot of case studies about doing business, particularly business in Asian contexts.”

 

The flexibility of the program enables Lia to study even during her frequent business trips from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. “I can attend classes in both two big and friendly cities: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Many of my classmates are senior managers and they share a lot of their experience during the program. Students are not only Vietnamese, but also oversea Vietnamese, Russian, American, Australian... Frankly, I don’t think I can join such a diverse class if I took another program in Vietnam”.

 

Lia Kristina Garcia, the marketing manager of SOS International in Vietnam, will get married next July. Her fiancé is also working in Vietnam, that tightens their knot with this land. Lia says: “From my own experience, I highly recommend the program to expatriates who want to do business in the Pacific Asia. For Vietnamese students pursuing MBA degrees, Hawaii MBA program offers you the higher quality than Vietnamese courses but at a lower cost than foreign MBA programs.