Similar courses were held in the United States.
It has also opened two centres in Vietnam and one in Cambodia to offer similar courses.
At UCL he was convener of Europe's first MSc in conservation, which quickly became the model for similar courses elsewhere.
Bath's programmes, like many other institutions offering similar courses, have a strong emphasis on the global nature of business and management.
He said he had taught similar courses on modernity and the problem of evil to undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard, but not to freshmen only.
And the University of Virginia, which had offered a postgraduation immersion program in business in the summer, began offering similar courses during the school year last fall.
Fee-based financial planners offer similar courses to companies, but might take the opportunity to solicit within for personal- portfolio management customers, Mr. Shobe said.
Dr Gwen Griffith-Dickson, director of Birkbeck's centre for the study of religion, ideas and society, said it already ran a series of similar courses with Muslim scholars.
Many companies offer free workshops or seminars for employees contemplating retirement, while many banks, brokerage firms and adult education classes offer similar courses for little or no fee.
Labor says similar courses are available at public Tafes for less than $6,000 and is expected to unveil extra funding for Tafe colleges during the campaign.
This stands comparison with other publicly funded London institutions where the non-continuation rate on similar courses can be up to 24.5%, according to government figures.
