Okay. In this video I want to talk to you
about what's the
structure of business school education
or how is
a formal business education program
structured.
Well as we talked about in other
videos there are different types of
business education programs there is the
more technical education side that you
receive
in certificate or short run programs
like you know I.T skills,
accounting skills, finance skills things
like that or in a
technical school where you're focusing
on one specific
aspect or area of business or you know
in a traditional bachelor's degree
type of program where you have a more
well-rounded education mixed in
with business education as well.
So the certificate programs once again can
vary across the board whether it's just
short run you get a
certificate or whether it's long-term
training whether it's in residence
training for certain things
the way these boot camps and things
like that are
so anyway there's there's that. Now in a
traditional education environment right
the
college or university setting your first
introduction to business will be as a
business degree
that is either a major or a minor
in business. Now the most common or
the fastest growing business degree is
the BBA it is a
well-rounded mixture of of business
information from various fields your
marketing, financ,e accounting, etc., all
mixed together it's kind of
like a a pair down
a bit MBA program actually
in many ways it tends to mirror the MBA
program and the types of courses you
take
it just generally doesn't have as many
elective courses that you can choose
from as you would find in an MBA program.
Okay. But you also have a you know
bachelor's degree
in specific areas like bachelor's degree
in accounting, or bachelor's of marketing,
bachelor's of finance,
bachelors of accounting, something
like that
that is more of what you would see as a
concentration
or a minor within a BBA program for
example.
Okay. So generally bbas are are general
business but with a concentration
uh which is in one of those fields I
just named that I.t,
real estate, health care, things like that.
Right.
So within the master's degree
programs
there are lots of professional masters
programs
right in business areas like accounting,
I.T, analytics, finance, marketing, hr, real
estate,
economics, things like that right
and economics is not always business of
course but
in in fields of business and those are
excellent
for specific subject matter knowledge
a lot of theory but also a heavy dose of
practice based work
internships things like that are
normally integrated in their other
experiential learning type things
to reinforce and really to develop some
level of proficiency in what you're
doing coming out
we're oftentimes that is missing from an
undergraduate business
program where you focus more heavily on
conceptual
learning and theories that type of thing.
Okay.
Now I will make one comment on the MBA,
okay, the MBA is the most common commonly
recognized commonly understood
master's degree in it with regard to
business
but we have a we have a completely
separate video on the MBA and what it
means and how you use it and things like
that so I encourage you to to watch that
video but in summary
the mba is a finishing degree it is a
it is to refine certain skills but
more often than not it's either used to
transition within an organization
from a professional service provider to
manager of professional service
providers
or to change career paths completely.
Okay.
So in that way that's why it's not
advisable to
attend an MBA program directly out of
undergraduate because
it's a repeat of a lot of what you might
have seen in undergraduate but also
you need to be an industry career
professional already
with several years of experience for the
MBA to offer you the value
that you're looking for and like I say
we talk about that far more in our
separate video
all about MBA programs. Okay. So
but those are the business master's
degrees that are common.
Now there are doctoral programs in
business
right there are phds primarily in
specific
business fields accounting, analytics,
finance, marketing, those types of things
right
but there is also a doctor of business
administration.
All right. Now the DBA tends to be
more well-rounded in its focus um it is
less intensive generally in terms of the
uh the research um
elements okay uh it has more I would say
of
the substantive classes and less of the
research-based classes
but once again it is a widely recognized
doctoral program for individuals
who may want to be a researching
type practitioner in the business field.
So the DBA is less focused on
academics the way phd is of creating
college professors or researchers
um to undertake research
projects within any you know institute
or grant
grant receiving organization
such as universities type thing. The DBA
is is focused on preparing
again researching type business
professional
professionals or business leaders who
need that
analytical ability, the ability to
research things in
in doing their job, and there's an
executive uh
version of the dba that's common as well
that
once again it's is focused heavily on
high-level leaders who need that level
of
of research ability and analytics in
their job. Okay.
And then um there's all sorts of
structures applicable
to any of these programs there's
full-time, part-time,
it can be accelerated where it crunches
the program into
the number of hours into a shorter
period of time, it can be weekend based
where you attend over
a period of time or modular, where you
come in for a week or two
and then you'll do other stuff online, it
can be executive in nature which is very
similar to
weekend or modular. Okay. And then the
format of delivery could be
traditional face-to-face it could be
online or once again it could be some
hybrid form there
in the modular format where you have
online portion and you have
in-person components.
So that's generally what you're gonna see
in a business school and
generally these programs when they
change format or structure
are ranked differently so their
reputation is perceived differently
based on the format and things like that.
So all these things are good things to
know and consider when you're
considering a business program or you're
trying to determine you know which one
is the best fit for you.