Business courses vs Business magazines

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<p>I know the thread title is a bit funny, maybe even a bit provocative.</p>

<p>Even if I'm not trying to generalize, I somehow noticed that most of the things I learn in pure business subjects in my course (that means, those subjects without any mathematics or economic theory) are somehow not so different from what I might easily read on a business magazine, internet review or some other source without really needing to go to university.</p>

<p>Sometimes I have the impression that reading up-to-date magazines (BusinessWeek, Economist, Harvard Business Review) might be more useful than taking certain purely business-related subjects at university.</p>

<p>Maybe it's only my university that gives me this impression. </p>

<p>According to you what's the difference between reading business magazines (as a non-student) and taking business subjects at university?</p>

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<p>It appears as if nobody else had this impression I had?</p>

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<p>Some business courses draw heavily from real world cases (which also are also well reported by periodicals.) Guess why business people continue to read BW, WS?J, HBR etc ....</p>