Backgrounder: AbeBooks Links Victoria to Dusseldorf
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UVic Business, www.business.uvic.ca, is an award-winning business school whose vision ensures that all students gain international exposure, an understanding of sustainable business practices and receive hands-on workplace experience. Program design is innovative with subject matter integrated across the traditional business disciplines. Its programs lead to a Bachelor of Commerce or a Master of Business Administration degree. Students can specialize in entrepreneurship, international business, hospitality management, and service management or customize a program to suit specific career goals. Custom and open enrolment programs support the development of mid-career and executive-level professionals.
UVic’s Business Co-op and Career Centre provides two major services: the delivery of the co-op program to BCom and MBA students; and career services to graduating students and alumni. Since the inception of the program, over 6,000 student placements have occurred through the program. In 2005/06 there were 565 BCom and MBA students on co-op work terms. UVic Business also has one of the largest international exchange programs in Canada. More than 70 per cent of its bachelor of commerce students and 100 per cent of its MBA students gain an international experience through exchange, study terms or international co-op work terms. More information is available at www.business.uvic.ca/international/
< Back to ReleaseUVic Business, www.business.uvic.ca, is an award-winning business school whose vision ensures that all students gain international exposure, an understanding of sustainable business practices and receive hands-on workplace experience. Program design is innovative with subject matter integrated across the traditional business disciplines. Its programs lead to a Bachelor of Commerce or a Master of Business Administration degree. Students can specialize in entrepreneurship, international business, hospitality management, and service management or customize a program to suit specific career goals. Custom and open enrolment programs support the development of mid-career and executive-level professionals.
UVic’s Business Co-op and Career Centre provides two major services: the delivery of the co-op program to BCom and MBA students; and career services to graduating students and alumni. Since the inception of the program, over 6,000 student placements have occurred through the program. In 2005/06 there were 565 BCom and MBA students on co-op work terms. UVic Business also has one of the largest international exchange programs in Canada. More than 70 per cent of its bachelor of commerce students and 100 per cent of its MBA students gain an international experience through exchange, study terms or international co-op work terms. More information is available at www.business.uvic.ca/international/