In Canada, Business Schools Lead Push for Globalization

Autor/in	Lewington, Jennifer
Titel	In Canada, Business Schools Lead Push for Globalization
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Business Administration; Business Administration Education; Student Recruitment; Foreign Countries; Multilingualism; Immigration; Universities; Global Approach; Foreign Students; French; Study Abroad; Undergraduate Study; Management Development; College Entrance Examinations; English; Language of Instruction; Second Language Learning; Language Proficiency; Program Descriptions; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Business economics; Betriebswirtschaft; Ausland; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; University; Universität; Globales Denken; Französisch; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Grundstudium; Aufnahmeprüfung; English language; Englisch; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Kanada
Abstract	At Canadian universities, business schools are light-years ahead of the rest of the campus in raising their global profile. Intensive foreign-student-recruitment efforts, friendly Canadian immigration rules, mandatory study-abroad requirements, and, in some cases, the option to pursue programs in multiple languages have combined to pack a punch in recent years. At the top schools, foreign students often make up 30 percent or more of enrollment in undergraduate programs in business administration and commerce, and close to 50 percent of graduate business studies. By contrast, international students typically account for 5 to 10 percent of students on the main campus of Canadian universities. Business students embrace study-abroad options: In one of the most robust programs, 93 percent of commerce undergraduates at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, take a semester-long exchange, compared with 3 percent of Canadian university students in general. Canada is the sixth-most-preferred destination for international students, but it ranks third behind the United States and Britain based on the number of overseas business-school applicants taking the Graduate Management Admission Test. Like their global rivals, Canadian business schools are revamping curricula, adding specialty programs, and boosting study-abroad opportunities, in large part to respond to employer demand for graduates equipped for a borderless world. Business faculties are also getting a boost from Canada's immigration rules that allow students to get a work permit for up to three years after graduation, compared with tighter provisions in other countries. Programs delivered in multiple languages have become one way to stand out in a crowded field. Undergraduates can pursue a business-administration degree in French; French and English; or French, English, and Spanish. For the one-year graduate business degree, students take core courses in French or English and, if proficient, add electives in their second language. From its introduction in 2005, the trilingual bachelor of business administration has proved popular. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10