The Trump Effect: Driving Business Students to Canada

From the Globe & Mail:

Trump Drives some international MBA seekers to Canada

“In late 2016, with the offer of a major scholarship, Pakistan-born Hamza Khalid paid a non-refundable deposit of US$3,000 for his MBA at Texas-based Rice University, ranked among the top 50 programs in the world.

Then Mr. Khalid changed his mind, deterred from studying in the United States because of anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric stoked by Donald Trump as a U.S. presidential candidate and then as victor. Instead, Mr. Khalid came to Canada last September for his MBA, receiving a scholarship from McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management….”

Unknown's avatar

Author: Chris MacDonald

I'm a philosopher who teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University's Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, Canada. Most of my scholarly research is on business ethics and moral philosophy.

Leave a comment