I was in Atlanta last week and noticed a sign for the following program. Part time limited residency executive format: http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/news/cqemba_georgia_texas.html "What differentiates this program from the Johnson School's residential MBA or the metro New York-based Executive MBA, is that students learn in boardroom-settings located in cities in which they live and work. Students are organized into Boardroom Learning Teams of approximately six to eight people and 60 percent of courses are delivered via a series of boardroom sessions using interactive multipoint videoconferencing. The balance of the courses is delivered during three on-campus residential sessions. Videoconferencing classes are held three Saturdays per month during the seventeen-month program. Participants are located in the United States and Canada, with Cornell and Queen's sharing the teaching responsibilities equally. Within the U.S., the program is now offered in Georgia, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Washington DC. Graduates of the program earn two MBA degrees-one from Cornell and a separate, second MBA degree from Queen's-and are full-fledged alumni of both schools. The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA Program enrolls students who meet the same high academic standards required for the Johnson School's MBA, Accelerated MBA and Executive MBA programs."
Sounds like a really interesting program. Two MBAs for $98,000 - The all-inclusive fee of $98,000 covers tuition, books, cases, learning materials, meals and accommodations during residential sessions, as well as travel, lodging and expenses for a one-week international business project. The fee also covers all of the software required for the program and in-house technical support (P7). It looks like the price for Cornell's MBA (dual degree) is ~$30k/year, so this doesn't seem to be too bad pricewise, especially with the fact that the tuition covers everything. One question I have is what would two MBAs do for someone, especially since it sounds like it would basically be a duplicate, instead of say one in Finance, and one in a different area (to cover the 18 hour teaching credits everyone seems to want.) Dallas is a short enough drive from Tulsa to make this a worthwhile endeavour, too... But I'm not the business-type person, so its not for me, but this is a great find, especially for someone looking for a name-recognized MBA from the likes of Cornell.
