AUT business enrolments up against trend

AUT University's Business School undergraduate growth has bucked the national trend.

The university's Bachelor of Business (BBus) has experienced a significant increase in both domestic and international enrolments in 2006, AUT said today.

Domestic and international growth figures hover at around 15 per cent and there are now 3300 students enrolled in the BBus.

The recent statistics are part of a six-year trend for AUT. Ministry of Education data shows between 2000 and 2005 the AUT Business School undergraduate enrolments increased by 103 per cent against an average for all New Zealand business schools of 42 per cent.

AUT's Dean of Business, Professor Des Graydon says the growth is especially pleasing when indications are many other New Zealand business schools are experiencing declines in undergraduate student enrolments.