I am planning to join for part time MBA in UAE to improve my creer opertunities, what are the best universities offering the same,

Recommend Westford School of Management for doing part MBA in UAE. Their programmes are highly reputed UK qualifications with experieinced faculties, affordable fees and flexible timing.

That MBA is *NOT* a "UK qualification"

Each course there leads to a qualification from some other school. Most are not UK qualifications. The MBA, for example, is from Bharathiar University in Tamil Nadu. The post-graduate diploma will be recognised by lower-quality UK universities. It doesn't seem very innovative to me: just a normal tutoring business for distance learning courses.

The PG Diploma is from EDEXCEL which is the largest UK educational awarding body and have MBA topup arrrangement with University of Worcester and many other reputed UK universities.

Greeshma, the regular MBA at Westford is from that Indian university: it's even named in the footnote on http://www.mywestford.com/mba.html Westford offers several diploma courses and, as far as I can see, only one of them leads to the EdExcel diploma. Indeed, that can be topped up by a few British universities - but none of them are reputed for quality. On this discussions board you've spoken about the programme leading to an accredited UK MBA, and none of the EdExcel top-up partners are accredited by the respected accreditation bodies (http://www.find-mba.com/accreditations).

The list of accredited colleges attached can only cater less than 1% of the total MBA aspirants. The balance are being ignored allways....These B schools are nto affordable to the majority even if they have scholarships.

I believe the accrediation are not guaged based on the ads they spend, bcoz we can see these schools ads are also seen in the ranking websites.

Hanil, your last sentence doesn't make sense. Can you try again?

Lots of people want to have MBAs *because* the accredited MBA programmes change people into capable managers who normally double their salaries. It's because of the reputation of the accredited MBA that people want MBAs. Unaccredited MBAs do *not* have the same educational experience, or the same outcomes. The rankings are driven by the variables listed in the rankings, not by advertising spend.

PS In Britain we say that "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". Accredited MBAs normally publish placement data showing the salaries and salary increases of their students. These bottom-tier British schools won't do that, and that's because the improvement is very slight.

And taking Duncan's comment one step further: you pay for what you get. Yes, accredited MBAs are more expensive, but even in times of slow financial growth have been shown to pay back, time and time again. You don't get the same return on investment with non-accredited MBAs.