WHEN it comes, the supply of diplomas, the halls of science are not immune to fashion. Some colleges and universities bank blue blazer classics such as history and philosophy. But also, as they try to read what from time to time.

What zischend just now, taking into account the achievements of the amount of dot-com, e-commerce Credential. In a source of many teachers and administrators say, it is faster to maintain the trend in the slow evolution of the world of higher education, universities and universities of Germany rush for the study of ‘Business Via Internet degrees, large companies, minors, concentrations, specialities, certificates, scholarships and research centers.

During die”University of Alabama does not have an e-commerce program, we are working at full speed on the establishment of un”écrit Bill Gerdes, a spokesman for the university, in an e-mail In response to a question on the topic of Commerce e degrees on the campus of Tuscaloosa.

There are so many variations of e-commerce education, given that the institutions. Dozens of programs or also now available, some are focused on Internet technology, training in the field of Web site design, Electronic Data Interchange authentication and Technology in collaboration with the marketing and consumer services. Others focus on entrepreneurship and the basics of running a business on the Internet, including managing tabs, and on the finances of the inventory.

Some curricula and intense participation Undergraduate degrees in disciplines such as computer science or finance. Others unless, of course, the demands and would appeal to students who are not necessarily easy with computers.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate Business School, Pittsburgh only a programme of Master of Science in e-commerce, teaching economics and computer science. The programme throughout the year, in May last year, has started, it cost $ 38,000, and the university said it is appropriate that graduates of the construction and operation of a business online, mounting system ground

The main programme in the field of science Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vt., which began in the year 1997, offers online instruction in basic research, web design, marketing and strategic planning for the Web. The 11 months of the program are needed to attract students on campus every second weekend and costs $ 15000. ”We focus on less deep, and most of the technical infrastructure necessary for the student to orchestrate strategies for the Internet,’’said Paul J. LeBlanc, the president of the university.

At the University of Florida in Gainesville, a certificate in electronic commerce as part of a two-year MBA program, after the completion of seven e-commerce, the rates of subjects, such as information on As the prices of products and services and one-to - One Marketing About the Internet.

Every student at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, can be regarded as electronic commerce Stipendiaten””durch the visit of two E-Commerce-Cours, courses in other disciplines, with an e-commerce component, or part From September - A series of lectures. All grantees must write a word-2500 research paper and work in practice - for a company or organization of service, for example - for 40 hours. The scholarship is for graduates term “portfolio fellows of the transcript and walk away from e-commerce.

Student interest in the new e-commerce programme level and of the management of higher education on the strengths of saying. Carnegie Mellon said it has received 180 applications, of which he chose his first 37 candidates. Paul R. Brazina, the executive director of LaSalle’s New Electronic Commerce Institute, said that 470 students have shown interest in the implementation of the award of the program, earlier this month.

At Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 110 students, a quarter of the candidates have chosen to MBA e-commerce as the concentration or specialty.

Companies are even more enthusiastic e-commerce as an academic and Uni-admins. Most companies believe that people with an intimate knowledge of modern information technology, technology and e-commerce strategies for competitive advantage. Some companies are e-commerce promoter of research centres, sometimes as a means of transforming his company, problems in the case studies, that students can try to resolve them.

”The width of the company’s request for the e-commerce experience, the CS First Boston General Electric, the start-up, like Priceline.com, is surprising,’’said Robert F. Bonner, Director of the Office of Career Management Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. ”A few years ago, companies would say, e-commerce on a Student’s experience was even “nice to have”. Now, they say, “must be.”