Business school

In Europe, higher education degrees are organized into three cycles under the Bologna Process in order to facilitate international mobility: bachelor's, master's and doctorates.

[37] In France, those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (unités d'enseignement or modules), each worth a defined number of ECTS credits.

Students are expected to scrutinize the case study and prepare to discuss strategies and tactics that the firm should employ in the future.

[42] Their first solution to this problem involved interviewing leading practitioners of business and writing detailed accounts of what these managers were doing, based partly on the case method already in use at Harvard Law School.

This approach emphasizes quantitative methods, in particular operations research, management information systems, statistics, organizational behavior, modeling and simulation, and decision science.

A study from by Inside Higher Ed and the Babson Survey Research Group[43] shows that there is still disagreement as to the effectiveness of the approaches but the reach and accessibility is proving to be more and more appealing.

Lecture as a method of teaching in business schools has been criticized by experts for reducing the incentive and individualism in the learning experience.

In Europe, the EQUIS business school accreditation system is run by the EFMD, which sometimes applies the more narrow EPAS label to specific courses.

[49] Each year, organizations and publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek (US),[50] Corporate Knights (Canada),[51] Eduniversal (France),[52] Financial Times (UK)[53] and Quacquarelli Symonds (UK)[54] publish rankings of business schools and MBA programs that, while sometimes controversial in their methodologies,[55] nevertheless can directly influence the prestige of schools that achieve high scores.

[59] In Europe, a bachelor's degree is tuition-free at public intuitions in several countries: Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Malta, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey.

[61] Two year public universities, such as a community colleges, charge $3,730 (€3,154) on average for in-state students, but these institutions usually do not offer Bachelors or MBA degrees.