Dose anybody know if Harvard Extension School has any planes to be offering MBA programs any time so anytime soon?
not anytime soon Why would they offer an MBA when there is the HBS? The Extention School is for Liberal Arts. Veritas, Michael
Harvard Extension does offer a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management. The courses don't look like Liberal Arts to me.
Each Harvard school is very jealous of their franchise – and any sort of business degree from the extension school would probably set off alarm bells at the other schools. Harvard Schools do not even cooperate very well with each other and to offer any form of distance business/administration degree would require a high level of cooperation and planning. I attended both the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government and these two schools could not even schedule spring break at the same time.
I don't think the extension school could offer an MBA even if it wanted to. Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears that every one of the 12 Degree granting schools in Harvard University offers a unique type of degree, not offered by the other schools. For example, the extension school offers AAS, ALB, and ALM. Harvard College awards AB and SB. The Business School awards MBA and DBA. The Graduate School offers SM, AM, ME, and PhD. Even thoses schools that seem to offer PhDs (the business school, the Medical School, etc) really have the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences administer the Program (or at least jointly administer it). So in effect, if you know the type of degree a person has, you know what school in harvard they graduated from, regardless of their major. Jon
Harvard School of Public Health has a M.S. in Health Care Management that they offer by DL with very very little on campus time required. So then why doesn't Harvard Business School offer their MBA program by DL? I'm sure a lot of people would jump at the chance of getting an MBA from HBS by DL, and it would probably be very good for the school profit wise.
I think the Devil will be building snowmen before you see that. As Jack mentioned, Harvard certainly doesn't need the money.
Well if they don't need the cash then maybe they should lower the tuition fee so more people can go to Harvard.
The thing about Harvard is that they are one of the few top tier schools that don't have and executive/part-time MBA program. Kellog, Chicago, and Warton have had those for some time now. I would think that the next top tier school that creates a DL MBA program will have already had one of these part-time programs in place. Jon
bo79 wrote: > Well if they don't need the cash then maybe they should > lower the tuition fee so more people can go to Harvard. They have been raising tuition, but they have also been increasing financial aid. Even with sky-high tuition, many more students apply to Harvard than are accepted. Harvard does have the largest endowment of any university: currently worth $17 billion. But 3 years ago, it was worth $19 billion, so I'm not sure it would be a good idea to spend it any faster. Harvard spends 4% to 5% of its endowment annually, about $600 million or 30% of a total $2 billion operating budget. That 30% is up from 17% in 1990. The tuition a student pays covers about two thirds the actual cost of his education. Source: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/09.27/endowment.html
Definately University of Chicago. You would really have to be from Chicago (which I am) to understand why the question you asked was funny . Jon
Sorry but I'm from Canada so I'm not very familiar with U of Chicago, but I do know it's a very respected school in the US. BTW can you post a link where there is more info about the U of Chicago MBA by DL? Thanks
Here's a link to the Chicago GSB programs page (no DL offerings though): http://gsb.uchicago.edu/dynamic.asp?nNodeID=11
Actually the schools I was refering to have executive(part-time) Master's programs, not DL. As far as I know, Duke is the highest rated school with a DL MBA program. If you know of other top schools with one, please let me know. Jon
Thats why I was asking you if you are talking about University of Chicago or Chicago State University? I know very well about the Duke University MBD by DL. However I think thats it's whey over priced and there is no I could ever afford it.
Not as highly ranked as Duke but: IU (Kelley) http://kdirect.iu.edu/public/mba_curriculum.htm UF (Warrrington) http://www.floridamba.ufl.edu/prosp_stu/imbaover.asp
AFAIK, obtaining corporate sponsorship is an absolute prerequisite for admission to the program. At a minimum, the sponsoring company must agree to provide the time off required for the residencies (which amount to roughly 11 weeks over 18 months)...........most all students receive financial assistance from their employers.
