Business schools expand part-time master's programs. (Trends).Business education appears to be heading in a new direction to better meet the needs of busy executives, both here in the United States and around the globe, who want to earn a master's degree in business administration without having to go back to school full time. On the heels of developing an executive M.B.A. program with the London Business School Around 800 degree students, from 70 countries, graduate from the school each year. Over 80 percent of students, and over 70 percent of faculty, come from outside the UK. A further 6,000 executives attend the school executive education programmes each year. in 2001, Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (part of Columbia University), officially named the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and also known as CBS, was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate will team up with the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. in June to "create a bicoastal bi·coas·tal adj. 1. Relating to both the east and west coasts of the United States, as: a. Traveling frequently between coasts as part of a business or living arrangement: executive M.B.A. program," reports The Wall Street Journal. Sixty-seven executives were enrolled in the executive M.B.A. program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton West campus in San Francisco when it made its debut in late November 2001. And the University of Notre Dame opened a Chicago campus in January to offer the part-time program. More than 160 universities offer an executive M.B.A. program, according to the Executive M.B.A. Council (www.emba.org), San Juan Capistrano, California San Juan Capistrano is a city in southern Orange County, California, USA, located approximately 23 miles southeast of Downtown Santa Ana. The current OMB metropolitan designation for San Juan Capistrano and the Orange County Area is “Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA. . "A few of the nation's top business schools [e.g., Harvard and Stanford] are resisting the trend," notes the Journal; they argue that quality would suffer in a part-time program. |
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