Having completed her bachelor’s degree in international relations and anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Kim-Sa Ngo was unsure which career trajectory to follow. She considered exploring roles in non-governmental organisations or the UN, but after graduating, secured a position in international education in Vancouver, a city where – with the exception of a few years in Vietnam and Denmark – she’d spent most of her adult life. But Ngo quickly realised that she wanted to switch industries and explore a more corporate route, which led her to consider a master of business administration (MBA) degree.
“I started looking at programmes in North America, but most of them were for two years,” Ngo says. “I was keen to enrol in a one-year course, so I started to consider opportunities overseas. I also knew I didn’t want to sit in another lecture hall with hundreds of other students, so a small cohort and more bespoke learning opportunities were important.”
