Online MBA/Management on short/intensive-but-many sessions

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  1. aldrin

    aldrin New Member

    Do you know of any online MBA or master's in management that has short-but-intensive terms (such as 8 weeks-6 sessions per year, or 7 weeks-7sessions per year, or 6 weeks-8 sessions per year, and the like) other than American Intercontinental University's (which I gather from the theads, is 5 weeks-6 sessions per year)? Thanks!
     
  2. horne

    horne New Member

    Check the web site for Aspen University (www.aspen.edu). Aspen University is nationally accredited (NA) through DETC. For less than USD10,000.00 you can earn a real MBA and actually know more at the end of the process than when you began the journey. If all goes according to plan I will have earned and learned my MBA by 2006.
     
  3. beachhoppr

    beachhoppr New Member

    Grand Canyon's online MBA courses are 8 weeks long, 6 sessions per year. They are RA, ACBSP accredited and tuition is $340 per credit hour (although they have waived my 3rd course's tuition and are planning on CUTTING tuition by 40% late in 2005).

    So far my experience with them has been positive

    www.gdu.edu
     
  4. qvatlanta

    qvatlanta New Member

    Brenau University...

    http://www.brenau.edu/sbmc/busdiv/grad.htm

    Has 6 sessions per year at $383 a credit, 36 credits necessary with no undergraduate experience and 30 credits from a business background.

    I'm sure there are several other programs with that structure.
     
  5. qvatlanta

    qvatlanta New Member

    beachhoppr, I like your website, and this is no way meant as a crack on your university... but when I checked out the GCU website it really confused me. The first thing that loaded was a picture of Alice Cooper receiving an honorary doctorate, next to a short message about Christians making a difference. Do you have any inside info on the Alice Cooper thing? Did he get born again or are they just very open-minded there?

    edited: I looked at the website and followed the "Alice Cooper" link... he did get born again, nevermind my stupid question, so I guess they're still open-minded but not as much as I thought.
     
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  6. beachhoppr

    beachhoppr New Member

    Yes he is a born again. He also donates a lot of money to the university, hence the honorary doctorate. Apparently he has changed his entire life.
     
  7. Arch23

    Arch23 New Member

    Rhode Island-based SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY, a top tier master's level university in the north (US News & World Report) and a private, Catholic, and regionally-accredited non-profit B&M institution, offers the following management degrees online:

    MBA
    MS Management

    Each program requires 36 units. The 'interactive' online courses are intensive 8 week-long courses (two sessions per semester). The 'self-paced' online courses are four months long (essentially one regular semester long).

    Tuition is only $340 per unit, cheap for a relatively prestigious private school.

    Also, the programs have professional business accreditation from the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education, a relatively new organization whose membership is growing (members include NYIT, SUNY, Wisconsin, Purdue, and many established private sectarian institutions).

    Salve Regina Univeristy's e-learning website:
    http://www.salve.edu/programs_esalve/ges_index.htm
     
  8. RonA

    RonA New Member

    Golden Gate University, a private RA school in San Francisco, has Cybercampus (100% online) management programs at the master's level that follow the ten-week, 5 sessions per year calendar.

    I've heard that the workload is heavy and that it's best for the full-time professional to take only one course (perhaps two courses if one wants to push it) per term. Tuition varies by program, but is in the $1600/course range -- kind of pricey, but supposedly worth it if you want to do accounting/taxation/finance/public administration in the Bay Area, where the school has a very solid reputation.
     
  9. RonA

    RonA New Member

    Davenport University, a multi-campus private not-for-profit RA institution in Michigan (a result of the merger of different for-profit business colleges over the years in many Michigan cities), offers an online MBA using a 7-week, six sessions per year calendar.

    Cost is $375/unit. Program requires 39 units (numerous concentrations available).

    www.online.davenport.edu
     
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  10. RonA

    RonA New Member

    Keller Graduate School of Management, a private not-for-profit RA school that recently merged with DeVry Institute of Technology to form DeVry University, uses the 8-week, six sessions per year calendar.

    The School offers the MBA and the MPA, among many others.

    Tuition varies, from approx. $1500 to $1900 per course. Since the programs require a minimum of 15 or 16 four-unit courses (60-64 units), the School is relatively expensive.

    I've got a number of friends enrolled in both the on-campus and online programs (one can do Keller's programs either entirely on-campus, entirely online, or mixed-mode) and they're VERY pleased with instruction and student services (particularly on the West Hills, California campus); they describe their online professors as very "involved."

    www.online.keller.edu
     
  11. aru1175

    aru1175 New Member

    I am doing my online MBA at Keller and would definetely say that it is a very challenging program. The MBA program really prepares an individual for his/her career.

    Each online course is 8 weeks long, we need to a project as part of the course, and also we need to go through three online quizes. Just now I completed a marketing course and had to prepare a marketing plan for project. Also each week, we have to participate on the threaded discussions.

    I have gone through 4 courses so far and have always experienced well qualified instructors. Although I have to say one thing, the level of involvement of each instructors vary greatly, I think this is expected in any university.
     

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