Please recomand an Online Executive MBA

Hi,

I would like to enroll an online executive MBA course either in Europe or USA ( I am in Japan).
I was browsing the net and I could not find any ranking or rating for Online MBA universities.

Could you suggest me some good accredited universities available online.
My budget is around $15K to $20K
I would like to hear experiences from recently enrolled/old students.

Thank you very much in advance

Regards
jag

 

It depends on what you want to use it for. If you are overseas and want to use it overseas there are some foreign universites much cheaper. If you are a GI there are some which offer big tuition breaks to them. AACSB accreditation may be needed for some uses. I'll list some below:

Amberton University - $8400, Not AACSB accredited
http://www.amberton.edu/

Touro University - $8250 (with no books needed) if you are military, military family member or retired military, Not AACSB accredited
www.tourou.edu

University of the Free State, South Africa (in coordination with DePaul University, Chicago) approximately $5200
www.edegree.co.za/Courses/MBA/e_MBA_001.HTM

Other universities have AACSB programs, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts which are a little more pricey but necessary for some jobs.

 

Originally posted by Chris

If you are not military the cost is $13,200 (44 credits at $300.00 per. Provided you have a business degree) Which is still in my opinion, low cost.

 

Try
Florida International University (www.fiu.edu)

or

Florida Atlantic University (www.fau.edu)

Both have executive MBA programs and AACSB accredited.

 

Sorry

Forgot to put the regular cost for Touro. Thanks 9 chris. By the way, after reading JAG's post again I see he wants opinions. I just recently finished my MBA through Touro. I found the program very educational and the faculty and staff very responsive to my questions. I funded the course through Stafford loans and my VEAP (veterans program) and the financial aid office was very helpful. The CD's which come with the course were a very good substitute for a book and much cheaper as they were included in the tuition cost. However, I travel a lot and ended up buying a laptop for trips. The laptop was about $750 which was still cheaper than books and I now have a laptop, which is used a lot by my wife and family, instead of a bunch of old textbooks I'll rarely use. As a comparison, my wife spends about an average of $100 per class on books for her MPA program with Troy State University ( I think the Dothan campus has an MBA program as well, about $322 per credit hour for a 30 hour program). I would recommend Touro for anyone looking for a flexible program. Also, they appear to be getting ready to apply for AACSB accreditation which would be a plus.

 

Originally posted by Chris

What was your concentration?

I have applied and will (hopefully) be starting in December. I am currently an auditor in the credit card industry and thinking that a General Management would best suit my needs.

 

Ouch!!

Florida Atlantic costs about $32,000. FIU does not appear to have a fully online program. If you want a $36,000 dollar program look at the University of Indiana's Kelley School of Business. It is a nationally ranked MBA program (Top 20 by Business Week) that has an online degree option. Another AACSB accredited program which is much cheaper is the University of Massachusetts-Amherst at about $22,000. You pay for that AACSB accreditation.

 

Information Technology Management

9chris,
As I am a computer geek by trade, I went for the Information Technology concentration. Also, look to see if the program will be tax deductible for you. It may be if it allows you to move ahead in your career field. If it is for a career change it is not. Talk to your tax advisor.
Chris

 

"Other universities have AACSB programs, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts which are a little more pricey but necessary for some jobs."

While The University of Maryland's Smith School of Business is indeed AACSB accredited, it does not offer an online program:
www.rhsmith.umd.edu

Duke-Fuqua does however.

 

Jag is looking for online Executive MBA programs. Executive MBA programs are different from regular MBA programs.

Ike Okonkwo, PhD

 

EMBA's differ only in terms of the make up of the class. Most of the top ranking B Schools also offer Executive MBA's. Duke Fuqua (ranked #9) offers an executive MBA, but the degree is the same as any other MBA from Fuqua.

Maryland-Smith, while it also offers an EMBA program format, does not offer it online. Duke does.

 

Hi All,

Thank you very much for your inputs and help.

This site has list of DL/Online MBA school.
http://www.geocities.com/liu_jonathan/distance.html

This site has B school rankings
http://www.mbainfo.com/rankings.html

It seems that most of US univ need TOFEL and/or GMAT...

I am a software professional. Would like to learn MBA to improve job opportunities.

Any ideas about The University of Liverpool?

Thanks and Regards
jag

 

Henley

Go with Henley in UK http://www.henleymc.ac.uk
It is both AMBA + EQUIS (European accred) and AACSB (US accred). Cost is about $20k or less and it lasts about 2 1/2 years.
It a good program known everywhere and within your price range.

Duke is over $100k.
UMass is about $22k. http://www.umass.edu/mba

Good luck -
oP

 

Suffolk University in Boston also offers an online eMBA program that is AACSB accredited.

 

Actually these are the rankings of the best US and Non US MBA programs.

2002 Best B-Schools Cover Story
BusinessWeek magazine looks at B-Schools from all the angles


1 Northwestern (Kellogg)
2 Chicago
3 Harvard
4 Stanford
5 Pennsylvania (Wharton)
6 MIT (Sloan)
7 Columbia
8 Michigan
9 Duke (Fuqua)
10 Dartmouth (Tuck)
11 Cornell (Johnson)
12 Virginia (Darden)
13 UC Berkeley (Haas)
14 Yale
15 NYU (Stern)
16 UCLA (Anderson)
17 USC (Marshall)
18 UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
19 Carnegie Mellon
20 Indiana (Kelley)
21 Texas (McCombs)
22 Emory (Goizueta)
23 Michigan State
24 Washington (Olin)
25 Maryland (Smith)
26 Purdue (Krannert)
27 Rochester (Simon)
28 Vanderbilt (Owen)
29 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
30 Georgetown (McDonough)

Non-U.S. Schools
1 INSEAD
2 Queen's University
3 IMD
4 London Business School
5 Toronto (Rotman)
6 Western Ontario (Ivey)
7 Rotterdam School of Management
8 IESE
9 HEC - Paris
10 York (Schulich)

Other Good Schools [Second Tiers ranked 31-50] (US):

• Arizona State
• Babson (Olin)
• Boston College (Carroll)
• Brigham Young (Marriott)
• UC Irvine
• Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead)
• Georgia Tech (DuPree)
• Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Iowa (Tippie)
• Minnesota (Carlson)
• Ohio State
• Penn State (Smeal)
• Pittsburgh (Katz)
• Rice (Jones)
• Southern Methodist (Cox)
• Thunderbird
• Wake Forest (Babcock)
• University of Washington
• William and Mary
• Wisconsin - Madison

Other Good School [Second Tiers] (World):

• Cambridge (Judge)
• Cranfield
• ESADE
• HEC Montreal
• Instituto de Empresas
• ITESM - Monterrey
• McGill
• Oxford (Said)

Hope this is useful. Most have EMBA programs. Some of these programs including Duke-Fuqua, Vanderbilt-Owen and Purdue-Krannert even offer DL options.