An article in the Financial Times stressed on the growing importance of an MBA degree for career-oriented women.

Employers are constantly on the lookout for prospective women armed with an MBA degree.Universities like the IMD in Switzerland and the London Business School are designing prgrammes that harp on the softer skills rather than the hard analytics. These courses are designed to pull in young mothers who are returning to the workplace. Also there has been a substantial increase in the number of women enrolling for an MBA degree.

The flip side is, women with an MBA degree are often paid less. The fee structure for women executives are not at par with that of men.

But the day is not far behind when these women executives take over the world displacing the male order.

The US has gone a step further to customise their MBA programmes to suit the needs of their niche customers like LG Electronics, Rolls-Royce, Texas Instruments to name a few. The courses offer the company executives with expertise to reach the numero uno status.

Diversity is what makes these courses a huge hit, in the UK and the US. Some have also predicted this as the “future of MBA programmes”.

Maybe the day is not far behind when “tailor-made” courses would be the buzz word in every educational institution. Schools, colleges and universities will be awarding customised degrees to students with varied levels of intelligence and capabilities.

The last decade gave rise to the customisation of internet sites. It seems the decade to come belongs to the universities and the paradigm shift in academic focus.