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on page 18 – enrolments in MBM programmes were up 8% per individual programme and 21% per Business School between 2019 and 2020. This is in the context of an increase of 13% in the number of MBM programmes on offer among those included in the analysis. Acknowledging the subject area’s popularity, LSE’s LJ Silverman talks about the need place greater emphasis ‘on nurturing entrepreneurial thinking among business students’ to maximise their chances of creating impact after graduation, as she outlines the approach taken by her School’s entrepreneurial arm, LSE Generate (page 26). Digital wellbeing is another
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area deemed in need of greater attention in this
edition of Business Impact . In the continuing context of the Covid-19 pandemic, Arden University’s Anthony Thompson looks at what Business Schools could do to better protect the wellbeing of its remote and blended learners (page 12). ‘If we’re not looking after wellbeing and encouraging a healthy work-life balance, grades will undoubtedly suffer,’ he reasons. Given the subject’s popularity across
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The subject area of business and management often tops the charts for popularity among a generation of students that is more focused on degree outcomes than the preceding generations. In the UK, for example, business and management had by far the highest number of student enrolments (412,815) in 2019/20, ahead of areas defined as ‘subjects allied to medicine’ (295,520) and ‘social sciences’ (260,490), according to data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). International students represent a sizeable
enrolled. Indeed, business and management is often the most popular subject area among international students elsewhere in the world, accounting for 27% of those who travel to study in Japan, 29% of those traveling to Chile, and 38% of those traveling to Australia, for example, according to 2020 reporting year data from Project Atlas. It makes sense, therefore, that the number of programme options in the discipline should move to meet this demand. This is precisely what the latest data from AMBA & BGA’s survey of MBM admissions worldwide suggests. In the research – covered in detail in our feature
the world and business education’s success in
transitioning to online and blended learning in the past 18 months, Business Schools seem well placed to be leaders in this area. Tim Banerjee Dhoul,
proportion of the UK’s number here, at roughly 39% of the total number
Content Editor, Business Impact
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