Please am an employee of apm terminals in ghana. Have worked for 10 years and I need to upgrade my education background hence my interest. I need any mba programme in general management in shipping or supply chain management or oil and gas management. I need to study at a pace that would not affect my work hence some flexibility is required. Kindly send to me application forms and the financial obligation . Possibly course duration too.

Take a look here: http://www.find-mba.com/board/distance-learning and then ask questions on that board.

Dear Duncan,

I have seen your posts on this forum and found them very useful. I want to share my profile to seek your advice on selection of right MBA.

I am 32 years old Chartered Accountant from Pakistan and currently working in a company based in Dubai. I have post qualification experience of almost 8 years that includes experience with Deloitte and PwC as a manager audit for more than 5 years both in Pakistan and UAE. Currently I am working as a Finance Manager in a very large company in Dubai for last 3 years.

Now I want to move from accounting and financial reporting function to a more broader finance function and my plans post MBA are to join financial advisory / consultancy of any of the big 4 accounting firm either in UK or Middle East.

I am flexible between executive or full time MBA but i believe for a career change full time MBA would be more suitable. Location wise I prefer UK but flexible for any other country in Europe.

I will highly appreciate if you can guide me as to selection of right MBA program keeping in view my career aspirations and profile.

Regards
Nirmal

Since you've already worked in one of your target companies and target geographies, it seems that a part-time MBA in the UAE would work well for you. There are some great executive MBAs in Dubai, most obviously London Business School. Were I you, I would stay in the Gulf and there make the move into finance or consulting.

In terms of the UK, I think there are five schools with the best record of placing MBAs into the big four.
# Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management
# Henley Management College
# London Business School
# University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
# University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Looking at Deloitte in particular (I used to work there), then London, Manchester and Warwick are very strong. Then also Oxbridge, Cranfield, Henley, INSEAD and Imperial are work looking at.