Communication Quality and Professional Competence – Evidence from a Romanian Business School

Communication within the educational process stands as one of the determinant factors for students’ professional development. This paper aims to assess the economic students’ perceptions regarding both the quality and utility of courses and other means of study that will enable their professional competences and their future career development. Thus, we have conducted empirical research among students from several masters programs taught at one of the biggest business schools in Romania. We included in our sample graduate students from three majors: finance and banks (two masters programs), accounting (three masters programs), and management (two masters programs). The students were asked to express their views through a questionnaire that addressed several issues, such as the quality of courses taught, the quality of laboratories and seminars, the correlation between courses and laboratories, the different methods of assessment, the effort implied in each case, and the efficiency of their results. The findings of our study could be used by of the university to further improve the educational process within the business school and to help increase students’ professional development.