Bangalore, 7th September’ 2015: A Senior Delegation from La Trobe Business School–La Trobe University (LTU), Australia visited Sri Lanka and India with the aim to introduce new programs in Master of Business Analytics.

Professor Paul Mather, Head of La Trobe Business School – La Trobe University, headed the delegation. He was joined by three Senior

Business School colleagues:-

Damminda Alahakoon, Professor in Business Analytics– La Trobe Business School

Kok-Leong Ong, Associate Professor in Business Analytics– La Trobe Business School, who is also one of the four academics in the management team of the Education and Training Program of Australia's Data-to-Decision Cooperative Research Centre, accompanied him.

Marc Olynyk, Director of Post Graduate Education, La Trobe Business School– La Trobe University The purpose of their visit to Sri Lanka was to create New and Improved opportunities for students of both countries through numerous study and exchange programmes.

La Trobe Business School amongst World’s Best!

§ MBA ranked 2nd in Victoria and 14th in the Asia Pacific Region-QS rankings

§ Accounting & Finance was ranked in the top 7% of the world by QS as well.

§ Corporate Knights 2013 Global Green MBA survey ranked La Trobe Business School in the top ten in the world

§ The school remains the only Australian Institute to be included in the rankings.

§ La Trobe MBA received highest 5 star rating from General Management Association of Australia

Professor Paul Mather said “La Trobe University’s constant endeavour to engage with key countries in our region and to keep creating enhanced opportunities for students has brought us to India this year. Our new Master of Business Analytics addresses considerable skills gap in the emerging “big data” phenomenon and should help students from India benefit from the cutting edge expertise within our Business School" said Professor Paul Mather, Head of La Trobe Business School”.

NEW CUTTING EDGE COURSE

La Trobe Business School, Australia is offering Programs such as the ‘Master of Business Analytics along with wide range of business and management courses’ for both Domestic as well as International markets.

It is projected by 2018, US market alone will require an additional 140,000-190,000 analytics professionals and 1.5 million more managers with knowledge in analytics.

OTHER EVENTS

· They also met various partner Institutes and industry to discuss about collaboration and joint research opportunities.


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