Opinions on EBS & Henley MBA programs

Actually this depends on a number of factors:

1) do you want an easier "first year"? the tradeoff is to leave the difficult ones later... particularly when you are doing the research project at the same year.

2) What are you good at? What is an easy module? from my observation, it varies.... some (Economists) said Economics, some (Accountants) said Accounting.... some (Engineers) said Decision Making, and some (Me!) said Information Systems

"Managing People and Organisations" is a popular option for many of the first year students here too. The good thing is that all of us have the experience of working in a corporate environment... and the experience of managing someone or being managed. All students have a lot to discuss and share in that class. The only trouble is the amount of materials to remember.

On the contrary, "Decision Making" is favoured by a lot of us with sound quant background. If you find statistics boring, the good news is only 50% of the content is about statistics. The other 50% of the content being the more challenging management science! Don't worry, the tutor for this module is a good one. He will make this an interesting topic.

With many of the opinions so far I've heard, "Managing Processes and Products" is the best one to avoid in the first year.

"Economics" and "Information Systems" are relatively simple modules for me. If you also believe they are the easier modules, my advice is to take a subject that would be "moderately" tough... so in year 2 or 3 you won't be taking all the difficult subjects in the same year.

Depending on your background, I would suggest one of the "Decision Making", "Managing Finance and Accounts" as the third module in your first year.

If you really want to stay away with any maths in the first year, you may consider "Managing Markets and Competitions", or "Managing People and Organisations" if you really want an easy start.

Choice is limited, it is more about leaving what into your second and third year.

The research project is very time consuming, doing the project with tough modules would be a nightmare.

Good luck!

 

The first MBA was an Entrepreneurship specialization and the second MBA was a Marketing specialization. As for the separate locations, City University is a multiple-campus system and admission to City University is admission to City University, such that one can take classes at any campus or via dl as one wishes, though sometimes specific majors were tied to specific campuses. Hence I took my general Management Core courses at the campuses in Mercer Island, Renton, Seattle, and Tacoma, with the Entrepreneurship courses being taken in Mercer Island and the Marketing courses being taken in Bellevue. The Management Core courses taken in the Entrepreneurship track were re-applied for the Marketing track.