at Tufts University
Why the Master of International Business?: Because it will equip you with the hard financial and strategic skills as well as network to get the work that you want. As you progress through your career as a global business leader, the global economic, statistical and legal frameworks that you learnt here will help you add value to the global economy.
URL: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/business/default.shtmlRanking: In a joint venture with Harvard University, Tufts University pioneered postgraduate studies in diplomacy and international affairs in the United States at a time of isolationism, economic depression, racism and nationalism. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy was born in 1933.
The school is as forward thinking today as it was then, pioneering postgraduate studies in the field of global business at a time when we are forced to rethink the assumptions that almost brought us to a similar economic collapse to that in 1929. Since the programme is still so unique, there aren't rankings to compare the Master of International Business with competition - it's in a class of its own.
The Fletcher School at Tufts University is, however, ranked fourth in the world for its professional master in international affairs (half of the Master of International Business degree) by Foreign Policy magazine:
http://imthemad1.xanga.com/695955411/fletchers-ranking/ Alumni network: There is a lot of chemistry between students of different graduating classes and because the school is so small, the alumni network is very cohesive.
I was welcomed to the school by a Fletcher alumnus who graduated in 1973. He introduced himself as a neighbour in more ways than one; he said that he was from Kohat and lived in Surrey. When we met, he said he would help me get an internship with his investment bank (Lazard) in Dubai, and he followed through.
List of notable alumni: From heads of state to CEOs:
http://imthemad1.xanga.com/716278760/listing-of-select-prominent-alumniae/Experience:Exposure to personalities: On the same day, I interviewed two Fletcher alumni and professors: one was a
Senior Advisor to the Obama administration on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the other was the former CEO of Xerox and former CFO of IBM. I also argued with the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel that day for several minutes.
Later, the former CEO professor is took 10 of us to dinner after lecture, mentioning his weekend with the Trilateral Commission and conversations with Henry Kissinger, Richard Holbrooke and Paul Volcker. Dropping his name and what he mentioned in class in a follow-up note to a current chief officer at IBM helped, I think, in getting him to recommend my application for summer work in the treasury department of IBM.
Your peers: Within each year group, business students make up 30 of 250 students, so peers include Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy students, LLM students and PhD students. There are also military fellows, which include four US colonels. My classmates are very well travelled, are knowledgeable about the world and have some heavyweight experiences. There are a lot of mid-level career diplomats and some army personnel from the USA, China, Japan, S Korea, Turkey, Armenia, and Indonesia, people from top banks, top consulting firms etc, a former group chief executive officer for finance for a petroleum company. Everyone is at least bilingual. A few students speak 6-7 languages.
But besides being an impressive bunch, people here are easy to get along with and most people party with everyone else. I live in a residence hall for Fletcher students and so have got to know a lot of people quite well.
Fall at Fletcher 
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Halloween Pakistan friendly: 9 out of 250 people in my year are of Pakistani descent, and a number of people have lived there, not to mention the number of people who have visited. The two girls who have come directly from Pakistan are both LUMS graduates and are Fulbright scholars (which we have a lot of). Like a number of other Fletcher students, Dania turned down Johns Hopkins and Georgetown to be here. Maria first finished her MSc (also on a full scholarship) at the LSE before coming here.
On the faculty side, we boast Professor of History Ayesha Jalal, one of Pakistan's and South Asia's finest academicians, as well as International Politics Professor Vali Nasr (himself a Fletcher alumnus), a Senior Advisor to the Obama administration on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Cross-registration: Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School obviously offer courses of great value, the schools are pretty close by and Harvard students are also good people doing significant things to change the world. So it's an asset to Fletcher students that we can easily register a quarter of our classes at Harvard, and have access to Harvard's conferences.
Interested?: Feel free to introduce yourself to me. My name is Imad and my email is imaduddin@gmail.com
You can also get in touch with the extremely helpful and responsive Associate Director for Admissions and Financial Aid, Kristen Zecchi, by email (
kristen.zecchi@tufts.edu) or by phone (+1 617-627-3240).
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