Professor Abdur Rab, Chairperson, Department of MGB visited a number of business schools in USA during the month of February, 2004 and had meetings with the Deans on credit transfer of BU students, faculty exchange, acceptance of visiting doctoral students of BU, supervision of doctoral students, registration in online MBA courses and offering of online courses for BU students. The Business Schools of Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, St. Xavier University in Chicago, Suffolk University in Boston and University of Texas at Dallas on principle agreed to credit transfers and to one or more of the other collaborations stated above.