Hmm -- the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook has general info on College and University Faculty at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm -- It doesn't say much about particular fields, except for these general remarks: ------------------ Kristin Evenson Hirst DistanceLearn.About.com
An admittedly very unscientific review of past "Chronicle" job listings indicates that business/management professors are in high demand. Bruce
Anecdotally... On my campus, the most difficult faculty positions to fill are computer science. Often a salary differential is offered. And, despite the fact that we are a university offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science, in the past two years half (2 of 4) of the new computer science full-time faculty hires have been folks with Masters combined with extensive work experience. In every other discipline (including business and management) the PhD is the minimum requirement. Hworth
Business and Computer Science. Almost every other field is saturated with candidates. This is particularly true in the humanities and the social sciences. Tom Nixon
Hey, Tom! What about economics? And, no, strictly speaking, economics is not part or business. Take care, Karlos Alberto Lacaye [email protected]
Though there is the field of business economics which can also be studied at the PhD level. K.A.L. [email protected]
hm... also strictly speaking Business (or Management) are BASED on Economics, so generelly they´re from the same area... (only America dinstinguishes so much between those two subjects - Europe sees Economics as a very important part of -at least undergraduate- Business Studies). Greets, Trigger
It is the same in the U.S. There is no business program I know of which do not require a student to take macro and micro. Yet, you will find the the major study of economics across a myriad of schools here. One might be in the school of mathematics and statistics while at another locale it might be in the school of science. I have seen some in the schools of business. Bing
Hello, Trigger! I think that this is not the case in all Europe. If we conisder the UK as part of Europe, then the London School of Economics of the University of London requires that undegraduates students major in economics (not business studies) in order to register directly to the MSc in Economics: "We expect students to have very good grades, and to have majored in economics (not business studies), with standard courses in intermediate macro and microeconomics, and a number of advanced courses which use these as prerequisites." Also, studying economics requires the completition of math courses which are usually not present in business studies: "You should have a solid quantitative background with at least a year of calculus and statistics and should, for instance, know how to handle maximisation of a function of several variables subject to constraint, and be able to explain what is meant by an efficient estimator." Full information is at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/graduate/courses/msc_economics.htm I hope this helps. Best regards, Karlos Alberto Lacaye [email protected]
