Here Photo caption below That changed on July 7, when 21 students walked across a stage in Hannover, Germany, and received master's degrees in industrial administration from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. Speaking at the graduation ceremonies was Heinrich von Pierer, CEO of Siemens, the 440,000-employee worldwide electrical engineering and electronics company. Sharing the stage was Juergen Grossman, CEO of the German steel-making company Georgesmarienhutte Gmbh. Purdue isn't alone in overseas MBA programming. Twelve members of the first graduating class are German citizens.
Students also hail from Canada, China, England, Estonia, Greece, India, Mexico and Turkey.
All of the members of the class have at least one job offer. One of the graduating students, Ingo Marxsen, is a graduate of a German business school, the University of Erlangen in Nuremberg. After completing his first semester in Hannover, Marxsen spent January and February as an exchange student on Purdue's West Lafayette campus. Marxsen says the practical, case-study approach in American graduate business education differs profoundly from the classical model that is the standard at European universities. They told us when we started that there was so much work that we'd have to team up to do it.