Tapping on the immense potential of travel, tourism and hospitality industry in India in coming years, the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) is keen in expanding its wings in and for India. While it is looking for prospective students interested in pursuing “the other courses” at MDIS Singapore campus at a very affordable cost, it simultaneously desires to expand offshore campus at in important cities of India.
“We want to go beyond engineering, management and medical courses and that is why I say it the other courses. By this I mean the newer generations are keen on studying travel, tourism and hospitality due to the growing business in India. I foresee a great potential in tourism and hospitality industry of India and that will give an exponential growth to the economy too,” Ashish Srivastava, senior country manager, international business, MDIS, tells you.
Srivastava has been conducting seminars and talk shows at schools across India to catch them young. “Students of Class XI and XII are keen to go for such studies and even interested in studying abroad. Singapore offers the best for them be it education, climate and above all proximity to the nation (India),” Srivastava adds.
Talking to Pioneer Avenues, Srivastava says that trends are changing now and for that reason even though there are lot of B-schools in India and abroad which students opts for, education at MDIS is unparallel and the learning curve accumulates for excellence spanning over six decades now. The institute welcomes over 13,000 students, who come from over 80 countries. And the best aspect is the safety of students studying in Singapore. It is second best world over,” Srivastava says.
Founded in 1956, MDIS is Singapore’s oldest not-for-profit professional institute for lifelong learning. Srivastava is a seasoned strategist and business development executive with over eight years of experience in initiating new business, setting up complete operations for regions, hiring and handling larger teams while working across different industries.
“MDIS is one of the first private education institutions (PEI) to be registered under the Enhanced Registration Framework which attests the Institute’s exemplary education and business excellence standards. We also have been ranked top two among PEIs in Singapore, according to the Webometrics ranking of World Universities by Cybermetrics lab in January 2017,”Srivastava says who has an MBA from ESADE Business School, Spain one of the Top Business Schools in the World Ranking 17th on FT Global Rankings.
Some of internationally accredited programmes offered by MDIS are in business and management, engineering; fashion design; health and life Sciences; information technology; mass communications; nursing; psychology and travel, tourism and hospitality management, in partnership with renowned universities of France, UK and US.
As part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Srivastava claims that MDIS Education Trust Fund supports deserving students who have financial difficulties in pursuing their education in Singapore. To date, MDIS has awarded some 7,500 scholarships and bursaries totalling near Singapore $ 6 million. The institute also actively reaches out to help the young, elderly and disabled, supporting various charities, and providing community assistance.
The MDIS-VElS established in 2015 through a joint venture with VElS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies in India offers diploma and Bachelor programmes including Accounting and Financial Management, Business and Marketing, and International Tourism and Hospitality Management. Students will have the opportunity to study in both the Singapore and India campuses.