I don't have 4-year college degree, can I still be accepted by a MBA school?

First of all, thank you for your interest.

I do have Entertainment Business B.S(EBBS). degree from Full Sail University.
For those who do not familiar with school, well.. in order for me to achieve EBBS, I had to take Recording Arts A.A. degree (14 months) and EBBS took about 9 months to get it.

Anyhow, I asked few MBA schools and they said Full Sail University as their accreditation is not one that is recognized by school.
So bottom line is... Full Sail is not a typical 4-year university or college.

It's too difficult to go back to traditional school and get another B.A. or B.S. taking 3 to 4 years of my life.

By the way, I do have really good 8 years of work experience (even I mention that to MBA school, they said no)

Anyhow, my goal and passion are going to a MBA school.

Please help me what I should do?

 

Where are you located? Maybe Edinburgh Business School (Edinburgh Business School: Distance Learning MBA and Online Business Courses) would be a solution?

 

I am not particularly knowledgeable in this area, and I'm sure others will be able to help more. But as far as I understand Full Sail is accredited by ACCSC, which is a legitimate national accrediting agency. Not all regionally accredited schools will accept a nationally accredited degree for admission. Others may be able to point you towards some regionally accredited schools that do.

However, you might try looking for ACCSC schools that offer MBAs. Everglades University is one. I am assuming that an ACCSC accredited grad school will consider an applicant with an ACCSC undergraduate degree.

You might also want to try for a DETC accredited MBA (Aspen University comes to mind), they might be more friendly to your ACCSC degree.

What you should know and are discovering is that degrees with certain accreditations may also have certain limitations. So if you don't know what DETC, ACCSC and regional accreditation means you should do a bit of research and find out, there are many posts here that explain it better than I can.

Best of luck.

 

Does the MBA program have to be regionally accredited (NA)?

Besides Heriot-Watt (which doesn't require an undergraduate degree), and if you're not able to find an RA program that will accept a Full Sail degree for admission, your best bet may be another NA school for your MBA. I'm not sure about the acceptance of NA schools accepting other NA degrees (DETC accepting ACCSC for example), but it's probably better than RA schools accepting NA degrees.

 

I believe there some regionally accredited universities that will consider national accredited undergraduate degrees for admittance toward graduate studies. Moreover, the UK’s Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh Business School) DL MBA doesn’t require an undergraduate degree.
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I know of Full Fail and they have a great reputation for the niche market they service. As far as MBA programs, you can explore DETC MBA’s as others have stated or try schools that are DETC/RA such as AMU.

Actually, that is where I would start with AMU American Military University Official Site | 877-755-2787 | #1 Education Provider to the U.S. Military or Western - Western International University which accept both NA and RA degrees and are RA schools.

 

Ok, this cracked me up!

 

Oops...hmm...I wanted to see if you were reading carefully :yup:

 

Or see how many of your credits from Full Sail will transfer into one of the Big 3. Then CLEP/DSST the rest and simply acquire a RA undergrad degree. This is really quite doable, and a motivated student can accomplish this very quickly. Even if nothing transferred it's a good bet you can knock out a liberal studies Bachelors very quickly.

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With that said I would take a good look at the APU/AMU mentioned above.If they would accept your NA degree and allow you to acquire their RA Masters that seems like a great scenario.

 

American Military University American Public University System - Official Site - 877-755-2787 and Western Governors University WGU Online University | Online Degree Programs, Accredited Bachelor's and Master's are both regionally and nationally accredited.

 

Liberty University has a 36 and 45 semester credited online MBA degree and you stand a good chance of being admitted. I was admitted to the seminary without an accredited Bachelor's degree. I did have a regionally accredited Associates degree and had finished my junior year at Oregon State University. I then completed an unaccredited Bachelor and Master's degree. Liberty University admitted me on probation and I completed the M.A. in Theological Studies and almost finished the Ed.S. degree. I am seriously considering returning this Spring semester and finishing the LU's Ed.S. degree program.

It is my understanding that LU will indeed accept nationally accredited degrees for entry to the MBA degree. Tuition is very reasonable $465.00 per credited. If I was asked to rate my experience with LU online I would have to say 7 or 8 on a 1-10 scale. One observation ...opinion I have is that LU is growing too fast. However, I do believe LU is one of the better DL Universities.

 

If you wanted to try an Online MBA from Australia, I am fairly sure you be accepted. Your degree is recognised by the US DOE so that would not present as a problem. The degree from Australia would be academically accepted in the US to the status of Regional Accreditation.

This does not mean that industry or employers would necessarily know the Australian school. You could try the University of New England UNE - - Distance Education or University of Southern Queensland University of Southern Queensland . There are a heap of others here that would not have trouble with your degree.

 

If you have a national accredited degree, it does not end of the world. However, your option is limited to advance your further study. In fact, in your situation you can even attend AACSB accredited MBA program. For example, the University of Wyoming offers EMBA program via distance learning. According to CHEA's HETA database, the school accepts national accredited degree. For more information visit CHEA's HETA website.

If AACSB is not important to you, Liberty University's MBA is a shoot-in option.

 

Hey djsquare,

I work at American Public University System --- both Randell1234 and Ted suggested you look into APUS. I just wanted to reach out and see if there's anything I can do to help you out. I'd be glad to put you in touch with current students or alumni, or with an admissions representative who can answer any questions you may have!

Best of luck!
Nicole