Introduction:
One of the collage requirements that must be taken by all of the graduates students of Collage of Economics and Political Science is strategic management course. Strategic management course teach students the set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a corporation. It includes: environmental scanning (internal & external), strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and evaluation and control. It focuses on integrating management, marketing, finance/accounting, production/operations, research and development, and computer information systems to achieve organizational success.
The first assignment in this course was to choose an industry and distributed questionnaires to five organizations working in the same field. The collected date from the questionnaires will be used in research study which analyzes industry structure.
We choose to distributed questionnaires to organizations in the private education industry. The Ministry of Higher education encourages the private sector to establish colleges and institutes of higher education. There are 19 privately owned Colleges of Higher Education which operate under license from the Ministry of Higher Education and are at different stages of development. There are seven Universities. Most of these institutions are affiliated to Universities in the UK, USA, Australia India or Germany. The first women's college in Oman, the Mazoon College for Management and Applied Sciences, opened during 1999. This was followed by Al-Zahra College for Girls.

We have distributed the questionnaires among the Collage of Banking and Financial Studies, Majan University College, Nizwa University, and Sultan Qaboos University.
We couldn't find a fifth collage to fill the questionnaires, we had asked Muscat College, Gulf College, and Modern College of Business and Science