As the casino industry booms in true Vegas proportions at Macau, the young and able of China's higher education business programs are catching on to the huge potential of future financial stability and skyrocketing career growth. One Chinese student by the name of Cathy Lui, has been swayed by the temptation of Macau's immense burst in casino resorts, and has turned from her parent's profession of the medical field to jump headfirst into gaming management at the University of Macau.

One thing is for sure - It does not seem to be a bad bet on her part, given ninety percent of the students who graduate from UM's gaming management program receive jobs immediately upon graduation. Part of what is proving so helpful about the school's gaming and casino degree is its simultaneous relationship with the power house of  gambling and casino resorts itself - Las Vegas.

The University of Nevada has been hosting students from various countries abroad, which have their own growing casino markets - Macau being the most prominent of these. As part of this program, thirty-five Chinese students were recently greeted by the Las Vegas' International Gaming Institute and given twenty-five hours of casino specified education over the course of a two week stay. The most valuable part was their hands-on experience, which essentially was an opportunity to witness everything they had previously been learning at internationally renowned resort casinos.

Some of the most popular and beneficial topics covered were hotel operations, slot operations, food and beverage, and tourism and convention management - all of which are essential in running successful large casino resorts that draw more that just the career gambler.

The latest objective for Macau to accomplish is being able to draw a more pleasure and tourist driven crowd, thereby being bale to reap the huge percentage of non-gaming revenue that Las Vegas casinos enjoy. One Chinese student made the astute observation that that was the difference between Macau gamblers and Las Vegas gamblers. In Las Vegas casinos, the gamblers are relaxed and social while in Macau they are still disproportionately serious career gamblers.