Many local companies are widely engaged in world markets.
The evening Certificate Program in International Trade is an abbreviated version of more extensive programs offered by the University's Department of Geography at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Courses in the program will be useful to current practitioners and to persons working in the related fields of marketing and international purchasing, as well as to students in academic programs such as Management and Foreign Languages. Our figures suggest that some 60 percent of the manufacturing and service-based companies within the WNY region are engaged in varying degrees in international business. Jim McConnell, Chairman, Dept. of Goergraphy, Universoty at Buffalo. We know from national statistics that the companies that are generating jobs most rapidly and the ones paying the highest wages are those that are engaged in international business.