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Top MBA university ditches Singapore, heads to Hong Kong

Tough time for Singapore's education goals.

According to a report by Bloomberg, Singapore’s efforts to become an Asian center for higher education was dealt a blow this month when the school with the top-ranked MBA program said it will relocate to Hong Kong.

The University of Chicago, whose executive MBA program was ranked No. 1 by Bloomberg Businessweek last year, said July 10 it’s relocating to be closer to China. That came after New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, or UNLV, said there are plans to close their Singapore campuses in the next two years.

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