The tutoring-free on-line college is at the moment accepting functions for the brand new MBA which is able to start educating on April 11, 2024.
“The aim of offering an MBA diploma program in Arabic is to increase entry to reasonably priced faculty schooling for Arabic-speaking college students,” Shai Reshef, president of UoPeople, instructed The PIE Information.
“There’s a large demand for American greater ed within the Arab world, nonetheless, each the language barrier and the excessive price of tuition has prevented many Arab college students from incomes a university diploma up to now,” Reshef added.
As reported by Forbes, the typical price of an MBA within the US is $61,800. College students at UoPeople can pay roughly $4,860 to cowl software and analysis charges throughout the 12 – 15 month diploma.
To permit for distant and versatile studying, the UoPeople runs a mannequin of asynchronous studying with no reside lectures or set class instances.
The college at the moment enrols greater than 24,000 college students in its Arabic applications, 10,000 of whom are Syrian refugees.
“The applications in Arabic had been initially constructed to offer an answer for tens of hundreds of Syrian refugees whose universities had been destroyed and who utilized to UoPeople however couldn’t be admitted because of the language barrier,” mentioned Reshef.
The MBA curriculum has been tailored into Arabic by plenty of enterprise schooling specialists to protect the standard of the educational program supplied in English whereas making it suitable with the Arabic language, area and tradition.
“Educational lecturers come from completely different Arab international locations, which will increase educational range and, thus, familiarity with completely different enterprise tendencies and analysis outcomes from completely different Arab international locations,” mentioned Reshef.
The College of the Individuals is accredited by the Distance Schooling Accrediting Fee, which is authorised by the US Division of Schooling.
