EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, and 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), a global leader in education technology, today announced a new partnership with the to deliver an online MBA for global business professionals. MBA@Tec is expected to launch in Fall 2019 and represents a new graduate program for 2U.
“As Latin America’s leading innovation-led university, we are constantly focused on business education transformation, adapted to the emerging needs of organizations in a fundamentally globalized and technology-driven context. We clearly understand the need to be ahead of the curve in education innovation embracing digital disruption, offering new programs more adapted to a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) context, and developing new formats that bring professionals the possibility to keep developing skills throughout their career”, said Ignacio de la Vega, dean of EGADE Business School.
“With this new partnership with 2U, a global leader among ed-tech platforms, we give the opportunity to talented professionals, no matter their location, to live a unique EGADE MBA off-campus experience that provides balance between study, work and personal commitments, while benefits from our distinctive entrepreneurial and innovative learning culture and globally recognized highest academic standards. The MBA@Tec is designed to inspire an entire new generation of transformational and omnipreneurial leaders in Latin America and the world”.
“The EGADE Business School has a long tradition of breaking down geographical barriers in its quest to develop global executive talent, and our new partnership will extend that reach even further,” 2U President of University Partnerships and Services Andrew Hermalyn said. “We are thrilled to continue our relationship with Tecnológico de Monterrey by empowering the EGADE Business School to further its mission of developing ‘leaders capable of anticipating change.’”
Students will attend weekly, live classes taught in English on an online platform that works seamlessly from nearly anywhere in the world. Students will also have the opportunity to attend in-person immersion experiences held on one of EGADE’s multiple campuses throughout the Americas, where they can network with and learn from classmates and faculty.
The EGADE Business School is one of only 15 multi-campus business schools in the world that boasts the “Triple Crown,” a combination of accreditations from three renowned business school accreditation organizations: the American Association of Colleges and Schools (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA), and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).
2U also partners with Tecnológico de Monterrey on a dual Master of Laws (LL.M.) with the Washington University School of Law.