DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:Query:
Does having an MBA make a big deal in hiring a manager at your company?
If they have their MBA from a good school but it was online does it matter?
My buddy wants to drop $115k on an online MBA from UNC, not sure its worth it. We look at experience and the MBA could be a tie-breaker with the school being a 2nd tier tie-breaker, but I may look askance at an online degree.
This also applies to hiring butlers.
BCMurt09 {l Wrote}:DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:I immediately discount any degree received online. even at a tobaccoroad company, a unc online mba does nothing for me
I think he basically looked at a list of business schools and found the best one that did online degrees. I told him its not worth the cash when he is close to 20 schools with degrees, I am not saying go to Ramapo or Columbia or bust, but you have some decent schools like RU/Seton Hall at the same cost.
Caveat, if the online degree was Columbia and he could say he went there and the degree doesnt say Online, he could probably do it. There is no way to say you went to UNC and commuted.
A lot of schools now get rid of the online designation on the degree. You would have no idea unless the person said something. Maybe he just really wants to be a non-sidewalk alumni Tar Heel fan?
DavidGordonsFoot {l Wrote}:How do these online programs ensure academic integrity? I've never understood this.
flyingelvii {l Wrote}: I went full time at Michigan
ATLeagle {l Wrote}:Late to this, but paying a lot for a name MBA online program doesn't seem like a good ROI. As pointed out by others the value of the prestigious programs is in the recruiting from the program (will online have the same access or process?) or in the networking with fellow students (will UNC's online provide that effectively?). For most C-level positions, they will want it, but they care more about checking the box for the three letters and less about how prestigious it is/was.
While UNC is a fine school with a national alumni population, the network is strongest in NC and I would guess the majority of their recruiting/placement remains in the southeast. Is your friend even in the southeast?
Don't know if this is an Atlanta area thing, but I got my old company to pay for my MBA (UGA). My neighbor got his from Georgia Tech with his company paying in full and my wife got a 100% merit scholarship from Georgia Tech for hers.
ATLeagle {l Wrote}:Don't know if this is an Atlanta area thing, but I got my old company to pay for my MBA (UGA). My neighbor got his from Georgia Tech with his company paying in full and my wife got a 100% merit scholarship from Georgia Tech for hers.
ATLeagle {l Wrote}:
Don't know if this is an Atlanta area thing, but I got my old company to pay for my MBA (UGA). My neighbor got his from Georgia Tech with his company paying in full and my wife got a 100% merit scholarship from Georgia Tech for hers.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:ATLeagle {l Wrote}:
Don't know if this is an Atlanta area thing, but I got my old company to pay for my MBA (UGA). My neighbor got his from Georgia Tech with his company paying in full and my wife got a 100% merit scholarship from Georgia Tech for hers.
purely anecdotal here but seems like the number of firms willing to pay for an employee's mba has decreased exponentially over last 10 years
claver2010 {l Wrote}:ATLeagle {l Wrote}:
Don't know if this is an Atlanta area thing, but I got my old company to pay for my MBA (UGA). My neighbor got his from Georgia Tech with his company paying in full and my wife got a 100% merit scholarship from Georgia Tech for hers.
purely anecdotal here but seems like the number of firms willing to pay for an employee's mba has decreased exponentially over last 10 years
DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:ATLeagle {l Wrote}:
Don't know if this is an Atlanta area thing, but I got my old company to pay for my MBA (UGA). My neighbor got his from Georgia Tech with his company paying in full and my wife got a 100% merit scholarship from Georgia Tech for hers.
purely anecdotal here but seems like the number of firms willing to pay for an employee's mba has decreased exponentially over last 10 years
I think that is attached to the increasing cost. My company offered to pay if I ever went back for mine and then I told them the Columbia Exec MBA was $150k and I never heard the offer again.
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