Did You Ever Take A Graduate Degree Online?

December 7th, 2009

is it a good idea? Should I just stick to on campus classes?
I am looking at MBA in HR from Strayer University.

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  1. RoaringM Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    With an MBA, perhaps even more than with some other master’s degrees, the reputation of where you get that degree can affect your career. For example, some employers, such as Proctor and Gamble and Intel, and many consulting companies, won’t even look at you if your MBA was from a school that is not AACSB accredited (others, of course, don’t care, but some *really* care.)
    The general rule is that you want to get into the best MBA program that you can.
    MBA employers also seem to strongly prefer that you did the MBA in person. But if you must do it online – if you have no choice – then at least get your MBA from a reputable, brick and mortar university; and not from a school that’s famous for being online, or for profit, or academically weak. So in other words, not from Strayer, if you can avoid it.
    It’ll open up more opportunities in the future, if you can go to a program run by a brick and mortar university. Going to one run by an online uni can actually close some doors.
    Ideally, find an AACSB accredited MBA program that you can attend in person. If that’s not possible, and you must go online, then find an AACSB accredited MBA program that also grants MBAs online, such as: UMass Amherst, Northeastern, Renssealer Polytechnic, Worcester Polytechnic, Duke, U Maryland, Penn State, U Arizona, etc.
    I’ll link to a complete list of AACSB accredited programs, below, to get you started. You’ll need to go from there to find out which ones offer online MBAs. A decent number of them do, including the schools I listed, above.

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