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Mangan, Katherine S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Explores how the collapse of dot-coms has produced an increase in applications to business schools. Students previously interested in start-up companies, along with recruiters previously interested in young, non-traditionally educated employees, are rethinking the value of a business degree. (EV)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Applicants, Economic Climate, Educational Demand
Mangan, Katherine S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000
Reports a high demand at law schools for courses on Internet issues, Cyberlaw, but notes that some critics question whether the topic warrants its own specialty. Suggests the appeal is based on intellectual excitement about the burgeoning field, the high technology comfort level of students who grew up with the Internet, and the promise of…
Descriptors: Civil Law, Course Selection (Students), Educational Demand, Higher Education
Mangan, Katherine S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Internet-based master's programs in business administration (M.B.A.s) serve a market that could bring significant revenues to business schools, providing new access to mid- to upper-level managers who want degrees to advance their careers but who cannot take time from work, or to young executives whose bosses offer to pay for the degree but not…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Competition, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education