Many of the courses, such as the popular master of business administration (MBA), are modular programmes, which can be followed part time by business professionals from knowledge-based industries who have a natural science background but who lack formal finance and/or and administrative skills.
For master's of business administration students in two-year programmes around the world, the all-important summer internship isn't just a potential segue to a full-time job.
In the ILLEV project, the Business Administration Knowledge Test (BAKT, Bothe T, Wilhelm O, Beck K (2006): Business administration knowledge.
In such cases the university should do its best to help students find further training appropriate for a different career, and some may choose to allow students to switch into selected (non-biomedical) graduate programmes (such as journalism or business administration).
Within economics, only 6.2%% of business administration graduates who found a job were working in their programme's occupational domain, compared to 78%% for automation specialists; within health care, 46.7 % of the graduates from general and technical support services who found a job were working in their occupational domain, compared to no less than 94.3 % for nursing and care graduates.
He said he was also looking at proposals for a UK Investment Bank and at the US experience of the programmes run by the country's small business administration which have helped firms such as Apple, FedEx and Intel succeed.
The Gordon-Howell report, as it became known, was one of two reports on business education published in 1959 the other being the Carnegie Foundation's "The Education of American Businessmen A Study of University-College Programmess in Business Administration", by Frank Pierson.Both reports railed against standards in schools and argued that programmes were being developed too hastily.
The career and training programmes database allows you to search by type of course and includes not only the strictly scientific (molecular biology and bioinformatics) but also programmes that allow you to branch into new areas (business administration and journalism).
It's hard work, expensive and it can deal a hammer blow to the toughest of management egos, but the master of business administration (MBA) continues to be one of the UK's most popular postgraduate programmes.
In Austria, prospective teachers receive substantial training in accounting and must even pass a knowledge test in business administration as an admissions requirement at the beginning and/or in the middle of the master's programme (in Graz and Vienna).
