College tapped to enhance Egyptian EMBA
USAID
Grant Goes to Robinson, Alexandria University With decades of
experience in developing business education programs in transitional
economies, the Robinson College was again awarded a grant from the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The newest
grant, from USAID through Higher Education for Development (HED), is a
$1.5 million collaboration to enhance an Executive MBA (EMBA) program
at Alexandria University in Egypt.
No stranger to the country,
the Robinson College has worked with Cairo University on a joint MBA
program and is currently involved in a BBA program with Cairo, also
through USAID and HED.
The two-year partnership between
Robinson and the Alexandria University Faculty of Commerce will allow
Robinson College faculty to help revamp the Egyptian school’s EMBA
curriculum and help train its faculty, said Bijan Fazlollahi, professor
and director of Robinson’s Center for Business Development in
Transitional Economies.
A Decade of Achievement
The
Caucasus School of Business (CSB), founded in 1998 by the Robinson
College of Business and a small group of schools in the former Soviet
country of Georgia, celebrated its 10th anniversary. CSB was
established, seven years after the dissolution of the USSR, to help the
Republic of Georgia make the transition from a planned to a market
economy. Since then, enrollment has grown to approximately 2,000
students. The school now offers an MBA program and a bachelor’s of
business administration. CSB also has a “two-plus-two” program in which
participants study two years each in Tbilisi and at Robinson in
Atlanta.
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