I have a Professional Master of Business Administration (PMBA) degree from a WASC accredited brick and mortar school. The program was 33 credit hours and was an taught in an intensive 12-month evening and weekend format. Students needs to have a minimum of 2 years management experience and maintain a management-level position throughout the program. Would it be inappropriate for me to write on my resume, or tell people that I simply have an MBA? For some reason I have the impression that adding anything else to the letters "MBA" takes away from its credibility.
Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas offers a "Professional" MBA and the graduates of that program use "MBA" on their resumes, etc. The SMU PMBA program is for students who work and take evening/weekend courses.
I should add that I just saw a few graduates of the PMBA program using the the "PMBA" designation and while others out of the same program used the "MBA" designation.
Cool blog eric. My friend is currently working on her dissertation for the Phd in Business, I forget what specialization. Anyway, she loves it. Good luck on your studies! Abner
You are welcome. I forgot to add that she is completing her Phd at NCU as well! Have a good weekend! Abner
Assuming you're talking about how to designate this on a resume, I'd call it an "MBA", but when you list the school, etc. below, note that it was taken in the "professional" program. I list mine on resumes as follows: MBA (in progress) University of Massachusetts Isenberg Professional Program To just call it an MBA w/o making the professional designation somewhere would be disingenuous, because UMass also has a standard MBA that requires more elective credits. However, I would never list it as a "PMBA", because that designation is not recognized and might lead people to believe it's one of those 4 week intro programs that some businesses use for exec education.
If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck and it's called a "professional duck", then it's a duck. I say go for it. -=Steve=-
