Since its humble beginning in 1997, Universiti Putra Malaysia's Graduate School of Management (GSM) has come a long way to achieve its vision of becoming a world-class business school.
Initially known as MGSM, the activities of GSM were supported by the Malaysian Graduate School of Management Foundation. The Foundation was established on 4th October, 1997 programmes as a company limited by guarantee, under the Malaysia Companies Act, 1965.
By collaboration with the Faculty of Economics and Management, GSM undertook the task of offering a variety of postgraduate and executive development programmes, which was previously offered by the Faculty of Economics and Management.
Currently, there are nearly 1,000 postgraduate students enrolled in GSM and all postgraduate programmes are conducted by professors and associate professors with PhD degrees.
GSM, as its currently known, came into being and went on to become the leading institution providing post-graduate education and training that it is today. Despite having achieved great renown and momentous milestones in the past decade, GSM continually strives to maintain its status as a centre of management excellence in the Asia-Pacific region, by offering its teaching, research and professional services which are tailored specifically for business and management practices.
GSM's range of programmes comprise of its Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Management (MM), Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes. In addition to being listed as one of Asia's Best MBA Schools' in Asiaweek magazine, GSM's MBA programme was also consecutively ranked No. 1 in Malaysia by the Asia Inc. magazine for 2003 and 2004. Furthermore, GSM was also ranked 7th among the Best MBA Schools of South-East Asia for two straight consecutive years in 2003 and 2004.
Source: www.gsm.upm.edu.my
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