Prospects Postgrad UK 2007/2008 - (Page 76) 76 BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT www.prospects.ac.uk/PostgradUK SPONSORED BY DOING BUSINESS WHY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PREFER DOING BUSINESS IN BRITAIN. We all know how much businesses like to promote their contributions to the global marketplace, and the UK is no exception. But when it comes to higher education in business and management, what does the UK have to offer to postgraduates from around the globe? ‘If international students are unsure of what they want to specialise in, my advice would be to do a generic MSc or MA in Management, where they can look at the whole picture of business - from HR to finance,’ advises Noel Dennis, Programme Leader for the University of Teesside’s According to statistics from UKCOSA, The Council for MSc in Marketing Management. International Education, international students have a clear ‘If they are aware of the specialism that they want to preference when they choose what to study in the UK. In study and have an idea of their career path, they need to 2005/6, over 80,000 opted for a course in the field of look around for a course, like our MSc, that will provide a business and administration studies. Astonishingly, this was balance between theory and practice; where they are going double the amount of international students who enrolled to learn critical thinking skills and also deal with on programmes in the second most popular subject contemporary theories.’ engineering and technology. In keeping with this demand for courses in the business INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION A business student of the University himself, Noel is stream, UK universities offer a veritable assortment of enthusiastic about the MSc he now delivers to students programmes; the Prospects’ postgraduate has over 2,000 individual course entries, from Business Administration to from the UK, Europe and around the world. Indeed, Asia Pacific Business, and Corporate Risk Management to around 200 students from 30 countries are currently Employment Studies and Human Resource Management. enrolled in programmes across the University’s business But with so many courses and so many unique strands, it’s school, which include an MSc in Accounting and Finance and an MA Human resource Management. important to consider where your interests lie first. http://www.prospects.ac.uk/PostgradUK
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