<div>The University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business recently launched a student recruitment campaign in India and is the first African business school to do so.</div><div> </div><div>“The GSB was inspired to launch the campaign because of the similarities between both the countries as emerging economies. As a result, the institute is proving to be beneficial for the foreign students planning to pursue MBA with a fresh insight into developing economies,” says Walter Baets, director of the graduate school of business (GSB).</div><div> </div><div>According to the Financial Times (FT) rankings, the GSB that is accredited with EQUIS, offers a great value MBA that acts as a draw-card for foreign students exemplified by the GSB’s rising annual intake of international students.</div><div> </div><div>Foreign rankings are important for foreign students to choose an institution. University of Cape Town (UCT) is amongst the highest ranked African universities in the Quacquarelli-Symonds (QS) World University Rankings and is subsequently home to some 4,300 international students from 104 countries; representing 20 per cent of the student body. Cape Town is ranked as the world’s top tourist destination by tripadvisor.com.</div><div> </div><div>Pranav Tandon, a native of Shimla, India, is one of the international students who has made the journey to South Africa to study at the UCT GSB this year, and he agrees that his decision was heavily influenced by the international ranking of the school.</div>