A business college is a school that provides education above the high school level but could not be compared to that of a traditional university or college . Unlike universities and even junior and community colleges , business colleges typically train the student for a specific vocational aspect, usually clerical tasks such as typing , stenography or simple bookkeeping . Proprietary schools can be traced back as far as 1636 to the puritans of Massachusetts. They served as a trade school for both business and necessary skills, from shipbuilding to sewing.
7-602: Påhlmans Handelsinstitut , previously known as Broderna Påhlmans , is a business college in Stockholm . The school had its origins in a writing institute established by Otto Magnus Påhlman (1811-1873) in Stockholm in 1846. The activities of the institute expanded gradually as it went from teaching students not only how to write, but what to write, until in 1881 the sons of Otto Magnus Påhlman, Otto Ottoson Påhlman (1853-1915) and John Magnus Ottoson Påhlman (1860-1945), decided to convert
14-513: A Master of Business Administration (MBA) program after a student has completed a bachelor's degree. MBA programs typically take two academic years to complete. In the US, business colleges are sometimes also called proprietary colleges , especially when they grant associate degrees or higher. This article about a university or other higher education institution is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This business-related article
21-489: A 1-2 year program. In recent decades the number of these institutions has been declining as business colleges have been finding more competition coming from community colleges, which provide both vocational as well as liberal arts classes and are often able to offer the classes at a lower rate of tuition, as they are usually nonprofit and subsidized by one or more levels of government assistance. Business colleges should not be confused with business schools which typically offer
28-552: Is the model of modern universities in the liberal arts fields, but rather to provide training for a very specific task, such as legal terms, marketing, strategy, planning, Human resources, management information systems, finance, or negotiation. Academic credits earned at a business college do not transfer to other colleges or universities and students cannot earn a bachelor's degree , though an associate degree may be offered. Business College's do offer degrees in business administration and management. These are typically offered through
35-566: The courses taught to include customs issues, postal, railway and shipping issues. In 1899 a training office was added to the school, followed in 1907 by courses in banking . In 1919 the school became official recognised and eligible for state aid. It was the first business school in Sweden to receive this kind of recognition. Following the retirement of John Påhlman in 1933, John Påhlman's son, Jolin Magnus Gösta Påhlman (1895-1963) who went by
42-517: The name Gösta M. Påhlman, took over running of the school. Presently the school is owned and run by the non-profit Studieförbundet Medborgarskolan . Business college The first business college founded in the United States is said to have been Nelson Business College in Cincinnati , founded by Richard Nelson in 1856. The goal of a business college is not to provide a thorough education, as
49-473: The writing institute into a business school, which was known as Broderna Påhlmans (Påhlman Brothers). In 1887 Otto Ottoson Påhlman left to set up a similar school in Copenhagen which eventually became completely independent of the parent school in Stockholm, and John Påhlman took over management of the Stockholm school. By 1891 John Påhlman was the sole owner of the Stockholm school, and during that decade expanded
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