Online Business Degree Program

The rise of the dual degree program has been a recent phenomenon created by many business schools to enable them to stand out against the other business schools each fighting for the students that apply each year. According to an article in Bloomberg Businessweek, the number of dual degree programs available has increased 54 percent over the past ten years, but the portion of MBA students enrolling in them has never gone above one percent.

The continued push for dual degrees has taken on new challenges. In order to minimize the costs and time needed to pursue the dual degrees, the schools are looking for ways to combine electives and required courses in order to minimize those two objections of most incoming MBA students. These are designed with the hope of more students actually signing up for the dual degree programs.

Another modern advancement is to combine the traditional MBA degree program with a more current field that is relevant in today’s marketplace. This is where dual degrees that combine engineering, healthcare, and international degrees with the MBA have been picking up steam. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, the belief is that more students are now going for the MBA and for a dual degree as a form of “career protection” against layoffs and economic downturns.