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North America and the Caribbean, and the UK. This shows the impact that lockdowns and restrictions had in large areas of the world. China (including Hong Kong, China) and Oceania were the regions which reported the least difference between the mode of delivery they used in 2019 and the most used mode of delivery used in 2020. Applications and enrolments between 2019 and 2020 Globally, there was an increase of 7% in applications per Business School and an increase of 9% to individual programmes from 2019 to 2020, indicating that demand for MBA programmes across the AMBA network grew between 2019 and 2020. The region with the most significant increase in applications was Africa, which had an increase of 45% in applications per School and per programme. Per School, the second-largest increase was in Oceania, where applications rose by 31%. This was followed by the UK, where Schools reported an average increase of 26%. After Africa, the second-largest increase in applications per programme was in India (23%), followed by the UK (22%). North America and the Caribbean and Asia, and the Middle East, were the only regions with a drop in applications per programme (-15% and -11% respectively). On a global scale, the average number of enrolments at AMBA-accredited MBA programmes was remarkably similar between 2019
teaching; for example, over certain weekends throughout the year. Programmes in Africa also went through a noteworthy shift in format. Modular programmes increased in popularity by 13 percentage points to 52%. Part-time programmes decreased by nine percentage points, and full-time by four percentage points. Mode of delivery Comparing the intended mode of delivery in 2020 to that used in 2019 reveals some evidence of programmes moving away from a classroom approach to blended or online teaching, even before the impact of Covid-19 is considered. If programmes had been taught in the way they were intended to be in 2020, the classroom teaching mode would have decreased by eight percentage points – from 83% to 75%. However, these changes seem insignificant when comparing the mode of delivery in 2019 with the actual most-used mode of delivery in 2020, showing the impact and disruption caused by Covid-19. Globally, programmes taught in the classroom decreased by 55 percentage points between 2019 and 2020. Programmes taught online increased by 36 percentage points from 7% in 2019 to 43%, again when looking at the most used delivery mode 2020. Online teaching jumped from being the least- used mode of delivery in 2019 to the most-used MBA teaching method in many regions in 2020 – in Africa, Europe, India, Latin America,
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