Business academy in Levice belongs among state trade secondary schools majoring in economics. Secondary economic school in Levice was established in 1967 and since then it has been preparing qualified cadres for all areas of our economy. Our school has always had to react flexibly to the changed economic situation and it has always tried to prepare its graduates to be successful at their workplaces. The considerable change has come in the special trade school system in Slovakia due to social process and the situation on the labour market since September 1990. The school transmuted , it changed its name to Business academy,  the structure of professional orientation and school subjects. Now the school  offers secondary education finished with a school-leaving examination. Graduates of this school can continue their studies at universities predominantly of  economic or law objectives. Our students are prepared for the practise in the production enterpreses, for state and public administration, for private enterprises nad companies. Thank to versatileness they can work as accountants, economists, managers, secretaries, salesmen, private enterpreneurs, bankers.

 Nowadays Business academy has 12 classes and four hundred students at the age of 15 – 19. The school is equipped  with the modern computer technique, we have been involved in several Internet projects. Business academy has some special classrooms for teaching economic subjects, two special classrooms for teaching economic exercises, accounting and other economic subjects. Three special classrooms, equipped with electronic typewriters, are used for teaching technics of paperwork and economic correspondence. Pedagogical staff is fully qualified and has 30 teachers who teach both general and economic subjects. The school offers accomodation  of students in the boarding house and boarding in the school canteen.

Business school sets the priority to prepare  its students for life, it has the ambition to educate young people who will be able to carry on economic work linked with gaining and processing information  in the area of production, supplying, sales, marketing, management, human resources management. The graduate student should conduct independently paperwork, bookkeeping, master work with computers. He should be an independent, enterprising, deliberate, and economically thinking person. During four years of the study at Business academy the student undergoes these subjects: corporate economics, bookkeeping, economic geography, technics of paperwork and correspondence, statistics, national economics, science of commodities, law study, economic exercises, mathematics, social communication, and facultative subjects – banking, management, marketing, economic week, applied economy. Students of the third and fourth forms take part in biweekly practice in some state, private enterprises, banks, or tax offices in our region. This practice  allows students to use their theoretical knowledge directly in practice.