Graduate Prospects - 20 August, 2008 - (Page 16) Business class M, B and A are often the only three letters on people’s lips when considering postgraduate courses in business and management. And, with around 2,400 MBA programmes on offer around the world, the Masters in Business Administration is a very successful business course. But it is by no means the only one. There are more than a thousand separate business MSc courses listed on Prospects postgraduate database, for example. ‘There have been a lot of courses brought in over the last few years,’ says Professor Steve Bradley from Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). Fortunately for graduates trying to make sense of it all, there are some clear lines to draw between the courses. The first distinction is that some courses (such as the majority of MBA programmes) will state that they are looking for students with real-world work experience. This is because they often utilise the students’ experiences to inform lessons. The next distinction is whether a course is generalist or specialist. ‘Increasingly, what’s happening is that there are specialised courses appearing within those general areas,’ explains Professor Bradley ‘For example, at LUMS we’ve just introduced an MSc in Management and Marketing which aims to fill a slightly different segment in the marketplace for those who want to specialise in marketing, as opposed to the straight MSc in Management, where individuals are mostly coming in without any business experience. ‘Beyond that you find even more specialised business programmes such as the MSc in Information Technology Management and Organisational Change, so the potential is there for students to really narrow down what they study. If you’ve got clearly focused career ideas I would say go for a specialist degree. But the general courses give students a chance to pick up the terminology and the current issues in the management field.’
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