Hey folks... Haven't seen much on the board regarding Drexel's programs. Any input would be appreciated!
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My employer is a "corporate partner" of Drexel, so we have a lot of people taking their programs (both distance and traditional part-time study). (We also have a similar relationship with Lehigh, so you can probably guess where we are located!) Ironically, because there are many employees taking the programs, the degrees are rather looked down upon. Everyone wants to be able to set themselves apart from the crowd!
Fine school. Their MBA program's a little expensive, but still very good, IMO top 15ish so far as online/DL MBAs go.
Just curious, not trying to be controversial or anything, but if you live in Davis, California, what in thunder do you need Drexel for?
Good question... I have a BA from UC Davis and am completing my MBA through a SF Bay Area RA School in Sacramento (Saint Mary's). I currently work for a medical school in Clinical Research. Naturally the med school (or any of the local schools) I work for doesn't offer any evening programs in Health Sciences or Public Health for us working folks. (If anyone knows of any, please let me know!). Drexel offers a Master of Science in Clinical Research, Organization and Management which would fit nicely with my current role. I've also been considering some MPH programs - which might be better (i.e., broader focus).
If you can get away to the beltway for a handful of residencies, Johns Hopkins--of course, one of the best universities for public health in the Universe--offers an online/DL MPH. http://www.jhsph.edu/academics/degreeprograms/mph/ UCD and JHU on the same page would make for a rather nice resume.
I was a student at Drexel. I enjoyed it, good teachers, nice facilities (in West Philly, a not-so-nice area) and so on, but honestly I don´t find any difference with state universities I also attended. In fact, I found other universities to be more challenging. Drexel had a great feature for engineering students though; cooperative education, a system by which students combine quarters of study and quarters of meaningful working experience. Good to help with costs and getting ahead in your careeer. That was a truly fantastic idea.
Drexel's a fine school in terms of reputation, but I suppose what you ran into is the same as everyone else who's taken classes from a range of schools, from top-tier to private prestigious to nondescript public podunk U to the more reputable for-profit NAs: there's really not that profound a difference between them all. An education is pretty much what you make of it, and you can learn a great deal--or very little--at any of the above. But of course, reputation being what it is--even though in reality it's little more than ornament--we still, for the most part, go to the most prestigious school we can afford, because it's a factor with which we must contend when passing our resume across the desk at the interview.
Yes, Little Fauss, I agree 100%. Those education ranks in specialized magazines often mean nothing. It is what you make out of it. My Drexel experience was good, but not better at all than what I received at XXX State University. Here in Holland where I work, no one gives a flying ***** whwther my degree is from university number 9 or number 3445. They know Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and everything else souds about the same. Furthermore, my wife is a LSE graduate, and people in HR have even dared to ask if that is a real university
Now that is unbelievable! Are hiring managers or HR people that ignorant where you work? LSE's right there with Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Congrats on your choice of very intelligent wives. That's probably my biggest turn-on, if I can be so vulgar about it. Not your wife (I wouldn't want you looking me up and punching me out), but intelligent women in general. It's part of the reason why I married a high school valedictorian who garnered a Phi Beta Kappa key in undergrad and went on to do 90% of the coursework for a PhD in pure Math (eventually stopped with an M.S.). I love intelligent women (at least my intelligent woman--I'm stark raving married), but the only bad part is she kicks my butt in every argument! Had a friend in law school who was very bright and smug, he started dating a young lady in med school, quite lovely. But after she trounced him in a few arguments and turned his words back on him, he'd had enough. She's too ------ smart for me, he claimed, and that was that.
I'll take a guess, Ox. With the assumption you're midway between West Philly and Bethlehem I'll say in the Doylestown area. D.
Well, it was actually her employer, a well known, gigantic bank here in Holland. But I am sure in my job they wouldn’t know either. She also studied at a XXX State University in America. In fact we met in NY. Her professors at the LSE are all the time on BBC or CNN as analysts of events, and she had a great time in the LSE. At the time the Director was Sir Anthony Giddens. But she is not sure whether her studies at the LSE were more challenging or not than those at XX State University. BTW, she graduated with distinction, which I think is something similar to American honors. However, the LSE has opened all academic doors she knocked on. Those reference letters by her English professors carried a lot of weight. But my point, again, is what we said yesterday, that education is what you make out if it. Even though Europe is becoming Eurabia, at this point we can only choose one wife. But polygamy is one of those few features I like about Islam. Anyway, I am afraid; she was the one choosing me. As we say in my country, men propose but women dispose. Does it make any sense in English? Yeah, there is no bigger turn on that an absolutely confident, intelligent woman having interest in you. Others feel their legs shaking. But I like it too. Then he wasn’t skilled enough in the art of manipulation. Amateurs!
I did botch that tense, didn't I? I'm sure one wife is all you could handle, esp. one who graduated with distinction from one of the top 20 unis in the world.
