It seems UpGrad is a longer partnership with Edgewood College and SSBM. But now they are in partnership with Rushford Business School's taught DBA in Business Management, another Swiss Business School.
I assume that being an IACBE member and AACSB member doesn’t equate to being accredited by them. I wonder why they would want to be a member of both and not just AACSB.
(1) 100% true. Membership, you buy. Accreditation - you earn. And it's hard - it has to be. (2) European schools often have multiple Associations, including AACSB. Here: one American, One International. In fact, they sometimes hold multiple Accreditations. "Triple Crown" accreditation in Europe is AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. AMBA is programmatic. the others are for business schools as a whole. Explanation here: https://www.edhec.edu/en/news/triple-accreditation-MBA-importance#:~
I don't like the name "Rushford." Reminds me of "Rushmore University" q.v. and the many Axact (Pakistan-based) paper-fraud schools with names ending in "Ford" so they sounded like nice American outfits. Important: Rushford is neither of these. It's legal in Switzerland, though I have no idea what American standing or equivalency any recognized American Credential Evaluator would give a Rushford degree, based on its EduQua certificate. It says it is a Candidate for ACBSP accreditation. OK - but that's not Accreditation - yet - and it's programmatic, not institutional. There looks to be a mistake or two on the Rushford DBA page. The dissertation is to be "25,000 to 25,000" words. Exactly, I guess. That's an awfully narrow range. This type of error should have been caught. It wasn't. Not a good sign. It's probably just me. Perhaps 20+ years of amateur sleuthing after nebulous schools has finally "done my head in" as Brits say. Or not. Summary - it's legally entitled to award degrees. What mileage would you get here in North America? I'm skeptical.
Doesn't seem they're properly accredited, they have different pricing for Upgrad partnership vs their 'own', neither options provided of them make the accreditation any different, it doesn't hold any particular programmatic or secondary accreditation, nor does it seem to have proper Swiss accreditation either. The pricing seems attractive, but not as attractive as those MBA Top-Up options, or the DBA partnerships elsewhere for about 13K USD.
Actually, I am tired of third-party delivery of degree learning material content. You don't get to access the resources the same as the students from the actual school.
No. At least, not till I'm through listening to Oscar Peterson's "C-Jam Blues." Christmas Day Music is crazy-good on JAZZ-FM. This morning I heard B.B. King's "Merry Christmas Baby." It was so great - almost like a Religious Conversion - and you know that'd be difficult for me.... Oh - OK then - TEKMAN'S avatar! ‘Scientific knowledge, the crowning glory and the safeguard of the empire.’ ‘Scientia imperii decus et tutamen.' It's been Imperial College London's motto since 1908 - although the Empire is, um, much changed since those days. TEKMAN is of course, a distinguished Graduate of that distinguished school. MBA holder. He has so many degrees, he has to send his resume by Parcel Post. Whole thing here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/history/the-college-crest/ This is my first Christmas alone in all my nearly 81 years. I usually head for my son's -- but right now he's recovering from COVID and still testing positive. So NO visitors. When his whole family tests negative -- WOO HOO! We'll probably have Christmas some time around New Years. Nice to have something to do in the interim. Merry Christmas, y'all!
With my eldest three usually going to their mom's for Christmas itself, my kids and I have "done Christmas" as late as Epiphany (January 6th). In the Christmas story, that's how long it takes the Wise Men to show up, so it's still timely.
