Characteristics of Business Administration
Business Administration learns professionals how to plan, organize, direct and
control the assigned activities to obtain a development, effective to the recourses of public as well as private companies.
Functions that are carried out
• Realize studies related to structure, functioning and estimation of the company or market
• Analyze the financial situation of the company
• Realize studies about marketing programs and its stake in workings.
• Develops and applies costs system.
• Accountancy
• Studies cost-effective projects, evaluates the risks and the alternatives
• Implements the right techniques for the enrolment, selection, induction and evaluation of human resources.
• Sets up educational programs and personal development.
• Structures the personal units and technically establishes the own functions of those. Designs and maintains information systems of human resources matters for decision-taking at a management level.
• Selects the most adequate measures for dissemination of company’s products.
Working field
The professionals in business administration work at any level, in public companies as well as private ones, as specialists in a determined area, in consultancy or as part of a technical department.
Importance of business administration for the county
To reach a growing process that permits to recover the typical problem of a society in crisis, Costa Rica requires planning, organization, direction and controlling the activities carried out at any level. As from there, the importance of those professionals is like a driving force of the national development.
Resources and facilities
The career counts with teachers who have a Licenciatura grade and Masters Degree in Business Administration. Their work as teachers is, among others, supported by the use of audiovisual equipment and computers. The methodology of the career includes the use of cases and simulation of situations that can happen in companies, with the intention that the student applies the gained knowledge. Before finishing the career, the student realizes an internship or graduation project in a determined company.
Those who have obtained a bachelors degree or Licenciatura, have the possibility to continue their studies, at national universities as well as foreign ones and opt for specializations in any kind of business area. The students who are integrated in the day-program will finish their career with advanced knowledge of English.
Day-program bachelors degree: Cartago
• Existence of the career: 28 years
• Number of courses: 47
• Number of semesters: 8
• Average period to finish studies: 5 years
• Percentage of students that graduate in four years: 31%
• Average subscription per semester: 450
• Number of admitted students per year: 120
• Average of graduates per year: 52
• Percentage of teachers with Master’s degree: 75%
Comment: For the calculations, the averages of the first and second semester of 2004 were used.