University of Economics - Prague

http://ozs.vse.cz/english/vse-degree-programmes/phd/

Online/Distance Ph.D. Programmes in English E5000. per year

 

These business-type degree programs typically hold little interest for me but I looked at this one because I had never heard of this school before. It turns out that there are 6 different areas of specialization offered - Finance & Accounting, International Relations, Business Administration, Informatics and Statistics, Economics, and Management. That's a pretty diverse collection Also, 5,000 euros is about 6,100 USD. That's really cheap. Not "UNISA-cheap" but waaay better than a US school Anyway, here's the PDF

http://ozs.vse.cz/english/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/Doctoral-study-programmes-2018_19.pdf

 

I'd never heard of it either. But apparently it's a big deal in the Czech context. Many prominent Czechs have graduated from it, including several previous Presidents and Prime Ministers, including current Czech President Milos Zeman. It looks well connected to the Czech government, elite in that sense. An International Relations degree from there would be attractive to me, assuming that I was in the market for such things.

 

May very well be a great school, but it has quite possibly one of the most generic sounding names I've ever heard. It's kind of like naming a dental school the University of Dentistry.

 

Yeah, you're right. But if that's the worst that can be said about this place then it might be a great find. Thanks PhDtobe.

 

Yes, and like naming a law school The University of Law...

Seriously though, this sounds far less weird to me. Eastern Bloc schools had boring names like these. Russian counterpart to this is Higher School of Economics.

 

That school is known here in Germany, but is it really just called "University of Economics"? In German, it is either called "Wirtschaftsuniversität in Prag" ("University of Economics in Prague"), sometimes slightly shortened to "Wirtschaftsuniversität Prag" ("Prague University of Economics"), or it is called "Wirtschaftshochschule in Prag", a literal translation of its Czech name. By the way, there is also a University of Economics in Slovakia, the University of Economics in Bratislava (https://euba.sk/en/), and one in Poland, Wrocław University of Economics (http://www.ue.wroc.pl/en/).

 

Hmmm. I seem to remember that there's an Economics school in London but I can't quite recall the name . . .

 

That's the naming convention. In Soviet system, every school was either "X State University", "X Pedagogical Institute", "X Polytechnic Institute", " X Institute of Y", "X Agricultural Academy", or "X Academy of Y". Institutions of the same type followed the same naming scheme. My mother graduated from "Kyiv Pedagogical Institute", or "pedinstitut" in colloquial, as most teachers did. My father transferred from the "pedinstitut", graduating from "Kyiv Institute for Physical Culture" - a school for coaches and PE teachers, natural choice for an athlete. As a special honor, a school could have "named after Someone Important" attached, "V. I. Lenin" being the highest distinction; some further got avarded a decoration that also got attached to the name ("X Order of the Red Banner of Labor Institute of Y named after V. I. Lenin"). Illustration of the latter is an actual name for the subway system, "Leningrad Order of Lenin Metropolitan named after V. I. Lenin".

After USSR collapsed, schools in Ukraine underwent name inflation, so pedinstitut is now "M. Dragomanov National Pedagogical University", and PE school is "National University of Physical Culture and Sports. My alma mater, after a century of being known as "Kyiv Politekh" or "Politechnicum", got its current 9-word name (National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"). I don't think that's for the better.

 

"Capitalist Roader Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute."

 

Yeah. A compensation for losing the "Order of Lenin" and "named after 50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution". That country was insane.

 

Does anyone know what their "entrance exam" consists of and where it can be taken?

 

All you say is certainly true, and I fully understand why you think it applies here, but it doesn't! The University of Economics in Prague was established, with its current name, in 1919. In 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire ceased to exist and the first Czechoslovak Republic was established. The top school in the field of economics in the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the Wirtschaftshochschule Wien, now called Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, or in English Vienna University of Economics and Business. As I said before, the literal German translation of the Czech name of that school in Prague is Wirtschaftshochschule. That is where this name comes from, and that's also the reason why I mentioned the German translation of that name in an earlier post. By the way, the same applies to the University of Economics in Bratislava, which, however, was established in 1940 and got its name from the school in Prague.

 

Update: VŠE / Prague University of Economics and Business is newly accredited by the AACSB.

 

Great achievement.
Congratulations to VSE!.
Surely will add utility and recognition.
I'm not sure how will their diplomas be evaluated in the USA as to equivalency to a degree. (Not to say it will be negative or positive, partial like grad diploma etc).

 

they are triple crown accreditation now

 

@Lerner That should pretty well do it, for degree recognition anywhere, I'd think. Triple Crown (AMBA, EFMD, AACSB) puts them in the top 2% of Euro Business Schools.

@armado Thanks for the info.

 

The issue with foreign credential equivalency evaluation is the program and classes comparison to an US RA degree.
And we know from the past that some Credential Evaluators are very strict with establishing equivalency.
While accreditation may not be an issue, the equivalency to a degree is what I meant when I asked would this degree be evaluated as Post Graduate Diploma or actual Degree.
I didn't look at the program, # of courses and projects, work, thesis etc., etc.
Just some thoughts.

 

Here are my thoughts: If a school with THAT kind of recognition grants a business degree -- it's a degree, nothing less. That's what the recognition signifies.

I don't think a grad would have that kind of problem - particularly since AACSB is US in origin - and considered the best kind of American business program accreditation. How much better than Triple Crown can they get? (There are only THREE US schools with that accreditation - and only 1% of business schools world-wide.)

 

But, of course there's always WES.....