Archive for 'Insight Into Business Degrees'
What is Geographic Information Systems?
Posted on Oct 21, 2009.
When looking at degrees for the business world, some degrees are rather obvious: general business for the well-rounded professional; marketing for advertising skills; administrations for management; human resources for, well, human resources; and English or communications for copy. Even IT & engineering degrees are self-explanatory.
But what’s geographic information systems?
At American Sentinel University, the geographic information systems, or GIS, program prepares the student for the use of databases the include spatial data. It’s useful for online map services, such as connecting residential and business directory information to a road map, and is specifically meant to help users to plot the shortest route from A to B. Think Mapquest, Google Maps, and your GPS system.
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The Ten Benefits of Ethical Business Degrees
Posted on Oct 06, 2009.
There’s a negative stereotype surrounding business these days that really must be purged from American business; things that business men and business students do like hacking into school files that should not be corrupting today’s already-struggling economy.
The terms “family man” and “business man” are coined as polar opposites, as if a professional career means the abandonment of other core values in societal human beings. Like the horror scenes straight out of The Devil Wears Prada, business forces us to choose between: our friends and our job; our professional progress and our family; our career success and our morals.
But this isn’t the way business has to be. Ethical business degrees, particularly ethical MBA programs, are cropping up from the crevices of our colleges and universities to bring the best of both worlds under one umbrella. Through these “ethical MBAs,” business professionals may establish fruitful careers on top of a foundation of education that interweaves ethics into each and every class, instead of that one estranged ethics course that was jam-packed into the General Eds.
The question becomes, then: how do these ethical business degrees hold up to the actual wear-and-tear of the business world?
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Selecting an Online Business School
Posted on Sep 23, 2009.
Business degrees are empowering professionals to new careers in an economy that craves change. Some professionals are not capable of stopping their current career to acquire a business degree though, which is where the attractiveness of online business degrees step in. This gives adult college students the luxury of pursuing their education on their schedule, and at their pace.
There are many options to consider when looking into an online business degree. Here are four aspects that will help you assess whether an online business degree program is right for you.
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Business Degrees at Saint Leo University for Minorities
Posted on Sep 11, 2009.
Lists like the Top 100 Degrees for Minorities give prospective college students the ability to find universities that are proud in the cultural diversity they offer to nation’s educational community. Business students especially benefit from a “Melting Pot” college, with exposure to all kinds of ethnicities and cultures enhancing their understanding of business relations in a diverse world in the future.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education put together a Top 100 Degree Producers in 2007 list for both Minorities and African-Americans. The colleges listed are from all over the United States and all of them excel in minority and African-American enrollment. This diversity does not lean towards on cultural direction, but instead shows diversity for all cultures. One of the colleges that showed up consistently in both lists is Saint Leo University, which happens to not only be friendly to minorities, but is also a military-friendly school.
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Take Leadership in the Education Industry
Posted on Jul 30, 2009.
Looking for an online master degree that puts you in a different leadership role than a manager? The online master degree in education is designed to offer prospective graduate students the training they need to become successful leader models in the education industry.
The education industry has experienced a decline in the economy, as have most other industries. The subsector of the education industry that is still thriving, however, is private schools. Private schools make up over 90,000 establishments and helped attributed to 57,000 new jobs in the education industry in May 2009 alone.