. >> reporter: pennsylvania native eric sidener is studying to get an mba at his top choice school. thought of applying to an ivy league but chose to take classes here in an up and coming program in china. >> lot of energy is happening in the chinese markets and a lot of the big-name companies are setting up their basis here. >> with the u.s. market depressed, more americans are looking for jobs outside the country. china is a popular place for students like sidener and fellow american classmate denise who want to get closer to a verging market. she turned a class at new york to study at this china-based business school. a degree that she hopes will give her a leg up. if she stays here or returns to the evolving marketplace whack ho back home. >> i started to realize most of my clients are chinese. either coming to expand their business in california or american companies that want to go to china to expand their business there. >> reporter: the number of mba programs here has sky rocketed from six to decades to go to nearly 250 today. some programs almost half full of students from

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