On 30 April 2007, AIT signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Pearl School of Business (PSB), India, to offer a doctoral degree in business administration in India which is expected to start at the beginning of July this year. It was signed by AIT President Said
Irandoust and Mr. Deepak Seth, Pearl School Management Board, Chairman.
The objective of the Program is to establish a strategic partnership in conducting the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program in India and the great need for faculty and practitioners to carry out applied research in the field of management.
The AIT-PSB DBA program in India opens the doors for serious applied research in Management and Entrepreneurship in South Asia and the Middle East. It is also a platform for launching joint educational initiatives of AIT and PSB at the postgraduate levels in the future.
The AIT-PSB DBA in India will be a premier program of applied research in Management and Entrepreneurship to train practitioners and teachers in Applied Management Research that systematically captures the rich insights from India's and Asia's varied and vast experience of
traditional and modern business enterprises.
The DBA program is a research-oriented doctorate that focuses on business practice and requires significant course-work.
Around 20 students are expected to be admitted per batch. They will be considered registered on the DBA program at AIT based in Thailand.
Conducted at PSB, the DBA course will follow AIT-SOM's DBA course structure. The PSB faculty and the AIT-SOM faculty will jointly supervise the theses of students as chair/co-chair or member of these committees. Both PSB and AIT-SOM faculty theses supervisors will also make extensive use of E-learning facilities in continuously providing guidance to the DBA candidates.
The MoU signing was widely covered by many newspapers in India. Some links of the media coverage are below:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1981592.cms
http://www.indiaprwire.com/businessnews/20070430/22208.htm
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/57333.html
AIT President also met with Mr. Ashok Ghosh, Rector of Singhania University with which AIT will be launching a unified bachelors-masters program starting from the August 2007 intake.
Mr. Ghosh has also put forward a proposal for AIT to jointly offer undergraduate engineering programmes in India with Singhania University which will be carefully studied. As part of the proposal, Singhania would provide the complete educational infrastructure for the conduct, delivery and evaluation of the programmes, with AIT conferring the undergraduate degrees.
