An ex-student of mine who is applying for an online MBA asked me what the academic level of an MBA is. His comment was that when he looked at the outline of each of the individual subject courses, they appeared to be not much higher than a bachelor degree level, but the Masters part didn't seem to fit.
Of course, in a way he was right. One of the reasons that the MBA is set apart from other graduate degrees is that it is graduate level, but in a different way from other programs. The subject courses are informational, but the graduate elements of an MBA program are in the project work. This has to be completed in a much more integrated fashion than normal in education, with unique solutions, integrating actions across functional disciplines, and creating new strategies and the tactics to enable the strategies to work.
Make no mistake, studying on an online MBA is a tough intellectual exercise - but a great preparation for a senior management career.
# posted by Mary @ 4:19 PM
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