Can I teach at a university with a foreign MBA?

Discussion in 'Business and MBA degrees' started by chrisjm18, Nov 2, 2014.

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  1. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

    Can I teach business courses at an AACSB/ACBSP/IACBE university with an MBA from a foreign country?

    Just curious because there are 4 major non-profit universities and several 2-year public/private colleges in my area but only one (University of Scranton) has AACSB accreditation.

    I'd want to teach at one of these schools when I finish my MBA.
     
  2. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Maybe a better question would be "Can I teach at a university with ANY kind of MBA?" Those sorts of jobs are scarce and very competitive. Having a newly minted MBA would be considered absolute minimum qualifications for application and you'd be up against applicants with more experience and better credentials. I'm sorry to be a downer but need to be thinking about what is going to make you stand out in a crowd of people with a set of serious accomplishments.
     
  3. RFValve

    RFValve Well-Known Member

    This is a very vague question. A foreign MBA can range from a tiny basement type of school in Latin America to the London School of Economics. Not all the MBAs are created equal. Also, the MBA is perhaps not the best degree to get for a teaching career mainly because it is meant to be general, a MSc degree with a specific focus would get the job over MBA most of the cases.
    So in few words, if you get an MBA from a obscure foreign school just because is accredited and then run to your local school for an adjunct position, most likely you will have to compete with people with local degrees from known schools. Chances are that you are not going to get the job unless you have heavy work experience that compensates the weak MBA.
    This has been discussed many times here, someone finds an accredited doctorate or MBA from an obscure country that is really cheap and fast and then come to ask if they can use it to become a super star in the US. If this was the case, people would just register to do these degrees instead of going to a local school with a strong reputation.
     

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