Comparing Capital and Career Benefits of the MBA in the UK and Thailand

The MBA courses are increasingly sold in terms of leading to better job prospects and economic well being of the MBA graduates. The contribution made by education to the economic well being of individuals and society has attracted topic for research. Amongst all the educational courses MBA is sold in terms of how it would improve job and economic prospects of the graduates. This research tests Bourdieu’s (1984; 1997) ideas that investment in education can comprise cultural capital, an individual’s knowledge about the products of artistic or intellectual traditions which help to distinguish the holder of that knowledge from others, and social capital made up of connections in terms of useful networks. The study examines the extent to which the MBA students studying in Thailand gain cultural, social and inter-personal capital compared to the MBA graduates in the UK, including foreign students studying in the UK