September 01, 2008

MBIT celebrates 20^th Birthday

MBIT celebrates 20^thBirthday at Singapore Institute of Management

MB(IT) celebrates 20^th Birthday at Singapore Institute of Management

30 August 2008. Associate Professor Barry McIntyre led MB(IT) alumni in celebrating the 20th anniversary of offering the MBIT in Singapore. Celebrations were appropriately capped off with a 20-candle birthday cake.

The MB(IT) was RMIT’s first coursework masters to be offered offshore. Apart from graduating many hundreds of students now working the region, this version of the MB(IT) has continued to enjoy positive assessments from graduating students in the annual Course Experience Questionnaire that is administered to all graduates of Australian Universities.

Professor McIntyre, the only member of team still working at RMIT that first designed this degree, observed that the original intent of ensuring students understood the need to align IT with business had been realized. He noted that in many respects our MB(IT) was ahead of its time. While the program’s content is continually revised to accommodate contemporary business issues, the original alignment focus remains. As Barry colourfully reminds alumni and current students alike, “Companies want business savvy information systems professionals, not self absorbed technical propeller heads!”