Survey Reveals Top 10 Online Business Degree Majors
The popularity of online degrees continues to escalate. However some degree majors are more in demand than others. GetEducated.com's survey reveals the Top 10 Online Business Degree Majors for 2004.
ESSEX JUNCTION, VT (PRWEB) May 27, 2004 -- The popularity of online degrees
continues to escalate. However some degree majors are clearly more in demand
than others. GetEducated.com, LLC, a consumer-oriented, online degree
clearinghouse, has uncovered the following trends among learners seeking
graduate degrees online:
Top 10 Online Business Degree Majors:
1)
Business Administration
2) Management
3) Leadership
4) Project
Management
5) Information Systems Management
6) Finance
7) Technology
Management
8) Entrepreneurship
9) Human Resources
10)
International/Global Business
Most Popular Online Graduate Degree: The
Master’s of Business Administration (MBA)
Not only is the MBA the most
popular online degree, it holds this distinction by an impressive margin. The
second most popular online graduate degree, the Master’s in Management, is only
half as popular as the MBA. The third most popular online degree choice,
Leadership, is only one-quarter as popular as the MBA.
“What we see in
these trends is a mirror of the trends in the national business environment,”
comments GetEducated.com’s CEO Vicky Phillips, who has been tracking online
degrees since 1989.
“The Leadership degree, a type of degree virtually
unheard of a decade ago, is experiencing a tremendous surge in popularity as
corporations look toward the next generation of CEOs to excel in the softer side
of business-building. Leadership degrees emphasize communication,
problem-solving, and teamwork. These skills transfer across all business
specialties, and have come to be as important in the business world today as
finance skills were in 1980s when the MBA surged ahead in popularity in American
culture.”
Dropping out of this year’s Top 10 List are majors in Internet
and Ecommerce (ranked 12th) and majors in traditional core fields such as
Marketing (ranked 13th).
Technology management remains a solid major,
largely, says Phillips, because it appeals to professionals in a number of
career niches, including engineering as well as information services. “A strong
market exists for individuals who have bachelor’s in technology areas, such as
computer programming, who can demonstrate broader managerial skills.” For this
same reason Project Management remains a strong favorite among online
learners.
The results of this study are based on surveys of online users
of GetEducated.com’s free downloadable college guidebook, Best Distance Learning
Graduate Schools, Business & Management 2004. The survey covers a three
month period of February 15-May 15, 2004.
GetEducated.com’s Best Distance
Learning Graduate Schools,
Business & Management 2004, is a free
downloadable college guidebook to 176 graduate schools (USA) that offer online
business degrees, including 120 distance-learning MBAs. The guidebook is
available FREE for download at: http://www.geteducated.com/bdlgs_bm.htm
About: Founded
in 1989, GetEducated.com is the safest place in cyberspace to shop for your
online university degree ™. The clearinghouse accepts no listings from
unaccredited online colleges or from diploma mills “accredited” by bogus
agencies.
CONTACT: Vicky Phillips, CEO, GetEducated.com, LLC, Essex
Junction, VT. 05456. 802-879-1379. Website: http://www.geteducated.com
# # #
Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb129123.htm