I remember well thumbing through the University prospectuses when I was a budding undergraduate a few years ago. All the courses seemed so dull and uninteresting and in fact the subject I chose Economics lived up to my low expectations. I really wish that somehow I could have accessed the Gaming and Research Centers Prospectus based in Macau.
It’s based in Macau’s Polytechnic Institute and there are loads of courses linked to the biggest gambling Industry in the world. You can learn to be a croupier, do courses in Blackjack, Poker, study various roulette tactics and even Slot Machine maintenance. If you’re a native of Macau you’re pretty much guaranteed a job in the areas huge casino industry.
It’s not just basic courses either you can do degree level Casino management courses if you really want to set your sights higher. Macau is booming, the economy is growing by 18% a year. Gambling is illegal in mainland China but the industry has been liberalized in Macau. If you’ve ever seen Chinese in a casino you’ll not be surprised that the revenue in Macau is five times more than Las Vegas.
The most popular courses in the Institute are for Blackjack and Baccarat – it apparently takes 80 hours to master these games. These are the two most popular games in the casinos in Macau. The success of this region is quite staggering however there is the usual social problems associated with gambling. To build up that sort of revenue also takes an awful lot of people losing an awful lot of money!
The Philippines, Singapore and lots of other countries have noticed this success however and busily developing rival casino industries to attract the high rolling gamblers from China on their doorstep.
Finally a college course I can relate too! I’d love to learn how to be a croupier and work in a casino, pity Macau is so far away from Chicago!
Macau is renowned as being the Las Vegas through the planet. But actually, it’s not much like vegas at all, except that it’s one of the hottest area in all Asia to gamble. As well as the city is growing on a regular basis! There are over thirty more casinos that are likely to be built over another year or two in Macau, which year, it’s anticipated that Macau casinos will create a lot more than five billion dollars, that’s more cash than Las Vegas casinos create!