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Just back from some travels round the country. I've been visiting a number of different educational establishments, and talking about - you guessed, professional graduate qualifications.

MBAs obviously figured greatly, and the need to be sure that good candidates were supported for their GMATs. Well, more later, when I've managed to unpack my valise.

Carrying on from yesterday, an MBA program without the executive tag tends to be more theory based, and although it does have a lot of project work, this is geared towards tying the theory together and simulating the "real" environment in the workplace.

Many people who study on an MBA are younger, or a relatively new to the business environment. They may have recently reached middle management, and are using an MBA as a way of boosting their careers to make sure that they will continue to progress through the ranks of management.

In fact studying an MBA is always a good way of making sure that your career doesn't stand still. It not only proves that you are willing to work at your career, it also shows a determination to succeed.

I decided, as part of my research for this blog, to look into the difference between an executive MBA and a normal MBA. I thought that maybe there was an understood format that these programs took, which distinguished either the people that they accepted onto the course, or the roles that graduates took.

Well, there sort of is, but it's not really clear-cut. The underlying difference is the amount of experience that people have who are accepted onto the course. Usually executive MBA courses take older students who have worked at middle management and above level for some years. The executive MBA program tends to concentrate on encouraging students to work on their own projects, or to work with real situations that will have a bearing on their working lives. An executive MBA tends to be a really good program to make contacts that are useful for your future working life, and many people create their own jobs after studying on an executive MBA.