I am now NCU Student

Not muddled at all, Dave. Wondering why you came to this thread questioning our decision to attend NCU acting like some kind of expert and mentioning Touro as an alternative.

Touro International University is being shopped for sale AGAIN.

They could even lose their RA accreditation.


http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i06/06a04202.htm

Why do you recommend a school that might change ownership while a student is pursuing a degree and claims a unrecognized business accrediation?

Facts and citations please.

 

Accreditation accredits for financial soundness as well as academic integrity. This is why any school that is sold will have its accreditation re-evaluated. However, anyone with any brains will evaluate a prospective buyer's financial soundness before making a sale of this magnitude. I doubt that Touro's accreditation is in much jeopardy.

 

Maybe it is because many of us in the real business world have seen business acquisitions go horribly wrong.

TUI is heavily dependent on one student pool, the military.

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i06/06a04202.htm

TUI is also entertaining bids from for-profit organizations.

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i06/06a04202.htm

If a for-profit overextends itself financially and\or the military personal pool dries up due to the changes there could be real problems for the new school.

The comments from the executive director of WASC doesn’t make continued accreditation sound like a slam dunk:

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i06/06a04202.htm

Will the new school lose accreditation? Most likely not. But anyone considering TUI at this point should weight all of the options before making a final decision.

 

Friend,

TUI is one of your good options for a pure distance MBA, if you reconsider your decision to attend Northcentral, but it is only one of your options. By the way, you seem to be trying to turn this into a Northcentral vs. TUI debate, when, in fact, the thread is about providing you with information about all your MBA options. My comment about your thinking being "muddled" was in reference to your taking up dissonance reduction processes relative to your decision to attend Northcentral, instead of comparing your choice to the options. Since you seemed unaware of your options and I am, my level of expertise seems just enough to help you.

Now, back to helping you with your decision... You said that money was no object, so I again recommend that you look at Colo State's AACSB distance MBA as a better value for your money than Northcentral. However, you will have to take the GMAT and deal with an admissions process of unknown length.

Let me know if I can help.

Dave

 

An AACSB accredited MBA like the one offered by Colorado State is a better option than the MBAs offered by NCU and Touro. And the GMAT can be waived for Colorado State's DL MBA program.

http://www.biz.colostate.edu/grad/admission.htm

 

Good point about the potential GMAT waiver at Colo State. Here's another option. Western Kentucky University's AACSB general eMBA is 30 credit hours at $391 and is under $12,000 tuition:

http://www.wku.edu/emba/RequiredCourses.html

Dave

 

Good find. AACSB, costs less than CSU, and the GMAT can also be waived.

http://www.wku.edu/emba/Admission.html

 

One of the reasons my business has been so successful is I listen to the needs of my clients. Qualify the client. What are their needs? What is best for one may not be the best for another. Basic sales 101.

I said in an earlier post in this thread that:

CSU’s AACSB status is a non-factor to me. I mentioned that I OWN my business. I hire people and contractors, not the other way around.

From CSU’s website(http://www.biz.colostate.edu/mba/2year.htm):

Most importantly is the question of specializations. I intend to specialize in Electronic Commerce.

Northern Colorado does not meet most of my requirements. Neither does Western Kentucky.

So, again, my needs are:

1. Flexibility with NO ONLINE sessions to attend
2. The ability to complete courses at MY OWN SPEED
3. One –on-one mentoring is a BIG PLUS
4. AACSB is a non-issue
5. Cost is NOT a factor
6. Electronic commerce specialization

Any recommendations that meet MY requirements?

Thanks

 

For your entertainment

One thing that I absolutely love about the NCU program is that I can complete the course on my time and on my dime -- and I'm not regimented or chained to a traditional class schedule. My employer requires that I work four days on (10 hour days) and then I get three days off. My work days generally end up being 12 or 12.5 hour days because I also go to the gym for a couple of hours after work. No, I'm not going to give up going to the gym. However, the end result is that I'm usually too tired to do academic coursework on those work days, so I end up doing all the academic coursework on my three days off. This allows me to mold my academic coursework around my employer's schedule -- and not the other way around. This is a boon for me.

If you'd like to see some of my work (you know you would -- LOL), then send me an email at [email protected] with "XXX NCU" in the subject block (so I'll know it's from you and I won't delete it as spam) and tell me what kind of paper you'd like to see and I'll send it to you as a Word document. For your entertainment, I'll give you the following choices:
- forensics
- leadership
- ethics in business
- Is there a Nexus between Drug Trafficking and Islamic Terrorism?
- The War Against Drugs
- Money, Organized Crime and the Teamsters: What's the Connection?

 

Re: Re: For your entertainment

I know this is on the off-topic side, but I think this is an awesome idea.

 

Re: Re: For your entertainment

How does it work?

 

How do you handle one of your customers who thinks he knows everything about his needs but barely knows anything at all? For example, suppose your customer wants you to build them a car for personal transportation, but has never driven or even seen a car? How would you go about getting them to stop being stubborn, admit they know nothing, and listen to reason?

Dave

 

Re: Re: Re: Re: I am now NCU Student

Northcentral University shows 60 percent growth in first 10 months of 2006

Prescott, Arizona—November 7, 2006 — Northcentral University (www.ncu.edu), a leader in 100% online higher education, announced today that its enrollment has passed 4,000 Learners. This figure represents a growth rate of just over 60 percent during the first ten months of 2006.
NCU ranked among the top ten schools in graduate-level business students and among the top 15 in graduate-level education students in a recent survey of online colleges and universities featured in U.S. News and World Report.

 

Touchy, aren't we Dave?

If a consultant recommended a company that was about to be sold without telling me I would fire him\her on the spot!

 

Re: For your entertainment

I so agree with you. The program fits my lifestyle and needs perfectly. Sometimes business is overwhelming and othertimes I have more free time.

I really like the one on one. How far along are you?

 

Re: SSRN

Oh okay. I really have no desire to share papers with the world. I was just trying to satisify some curiousities that are here at this forum. That's all.