The big increase will be in the number of MSc in Management programmes, which usually admit students straight from their undergraduate studies, rather than at the MBA level, the latter being designed for those with several years' business experience.

ECONOMIST: The Bologna Process

An increase in the number of MSc in Management programmes will have a knock-on effect for the MBA. If traditional MBA applicants, who tend to be in their mid-to late-twenties, are only a few years out of their MSc programme, it is questionable whether they will they have the will to return to business school so soon.

ECONOMIST: The Bologna Process

Mr McNaughton graduated in law from Aberdeen University before taking a year out to travel to Australia and New Zealand then returned to Scotland to complete an MSc in oil and gas enterprise management.

BBC: Scotland

After a career spanning 35 years at the British Geological Survey, Mike went on to help set up the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management at Oxford University.

UNESCO: In Memoriam: Professor W. Mike Edmunds

Staff at the Sun are furious - and fearful - at the way the Management and Standards Committee (MSC) of the parent group, News Corp, has given the police apparently incriminating evidence about its own journalists and their alleged sources.

BBC: Eye of the storm

Cass Business School in the U.K. offers 18 master's programs, dubbed MSc degrees, in subjects such as investment management and management.

WSJ: Alternatives to the M.B.A. Becoming More Popular