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Greek students look to the UK for their MBAs
Home or abroad? Greek students thinking about business degrees are looking overseas, especially to the UK, for their MBA courses
Most Brits, when they think of Greece, think of golden beaches and azure skies, of island-hopping, the Acropolis and a history that stretches back millennia. The relationship between the two nations has, with a few exceptions, been largely friendly and reciprocal, a feeling of mutual respect and appreciation, and the large Greek population in the UK have settled there almost seamlessly.
Greek perceptions of the UK seem positive too, and no more so than in education. Greece perennially provides the UK with its largest amount of international students. And though numbers are gradually migrating to nations such as Germany for strong Engineering courses and even to Indian schools for business education, far more Greeks attend British tertiary education than anywhere else, including the USA. As table 1 shows, in the MBA arena the UK is almost 50% more popular than Greece itself, with the US a close third:
Where Greek MBA candidates would consider studying
Source: QS TopMBA Applicant Survey 2007
| UK | 76% |
| Greece | 52% |
| USA | 51% |
| Italy | 35% |
| Spain | 31% |
| Belgium | 21% |
| Canada | 20% |
| France | 20% |
| Netherlands | 14% |
| Switzerland | 13% |
