BUSINESS EDUCATION AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION GRADUATES AND THEIR CHANCES OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

This paper is set to find out between Business Education and Business Administration graduates, who have better employment prospects. The paper highlights the concepts, objectives, compendium and areas of job opportunities for both business education and business administration graduates. It was discovered that Business Education graduates have more employment opportunities than their business administration counterparts because business education not only make its graduates to be professional teachers but also nurtures and train them to be competent and productive managers and administrators of business organizations which business administration only provides. It was recommended that business educators should rise up from their slumber and organize general public enlightenment programme on the viability of Business Education because Business Education is the umbrella that houses all the management science courses. (Accounting, Business Administration, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Banking and Finance). Hence, before anybody should be offered appointment as a teacher, he/she must have adequate education background certified by Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) as it is done in other professions like law, medicine etc.