Hey, I' m Siddhesh from India. My family has been in the business of manufacturing silverware since the last 72 years. i'v been working in the organisation for the 3 years. I now wish to do an MBA but i also wish to learn silversmithy(art of making silver tableware, holloware and gift articles). Can anyone give advise me on where to look inorder persue a combination of the two (study silversmithy over the weekend or during my vacations in college). Please help. I m wish to apply for 2009 intake. I have a 690 GMAt and 3 years of work experience.
Thank You

Wow. That's a very unusual - but very cool - combination. I just wonder, though: wouldn't you be better off learning the silversmithying through your family's business and pursuing a separate MBA at the same time? Or is that something you've already considered?

I'd be really interested to hear more.

I v worked for 3 years in the organization and have learnt most aspects of silver smithy presently employed in my organization. There is now very little scope to grow organically. I wish to learn advanced techniques and technology of silver smithy. I am open to doing silver smithy with a silversmith over the holiday weekend, while pursuing an mba through the week. i m thus searching for a good mba college situated near a silver smithy training institute or a renowned silversmith

Hi Siddesh,

You haven't said whether you're looking for somewhere exclusively in India, or more internationally. I'm afraid I wouldn't know where to start regarding India (I'm based in Europe), but maybe I can help point you in roughly the right direction if are you considering going abroad.

It seems to me that your best bet is to go where there are both big fashion/design/industrial schools and good business schools. My instinct (and I'm afraid is only an instinct) is that your best bets - especially if you're looking for somewhere where you can be guaranteed the principal language of instruction is English - are London and New York.

So here are few links to places in London which might be of interest:

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ug-prospectus/courses-07-08/jewellery-silversmithing-related-arts-design-and-practice.cfm

http://www.hotcourses.com/uk-courses/Silversmithing-courses-in-London/hc2_search.adv_col_do/16180339/0/search_category/JH.12/qualification/Z,Y,Q,R,T,U,V,C/town_city/GREATER+LONDON/page.htm

http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/courses/jewellery-design.htm

http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/courses/ma-industrial-design.htm#

http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/courses/ma-design.htm#

http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=160472&GroupID=159384&;

http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=503415&groupID=503415

http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=503404&groupID=503404

And New York/USA:

http://www.silversmithing.com/schools.htm

http://www.web-mex.com/valentinyotkov/

http://www.metalcyberspace.com/schools.htm

I also found this in Australia:

http://www.rmit.net.au/browse;ID=16odi59xjo8t

And this is a more general, world-wide list:

http://www.metalcyberspace.com/schools.htm