What's The -Fastest- Msc/Mba Program?

I'm looking for a Msc/Mba with regional and national accreditation. Detec accreditation is worthless to me. (In short Aspen=Bad, Western New Mexico University=Good)
The background story is, that going for a phd would be much easier in my country if I had a graduate degree. I'd go with the Western New Mexico, but since they offer in some of their concentrations only 1-2 courses in a semester it might really take all the 24 month. Are there any other options similar to WNM, meaning online, double accreditation and, well cheap? I would pick Management Information Systems, Political Science or Psychology at WNM as concentrations, but I don't want to limit it. Esp. business or it related degrees would be all right too. Oh and is someone around here doing the WNM right now?

 

One of my colleagues is finishing the first semester of the WNM program right now; his concentrations are English and Education. He believes it is a quality program.

Shawn

 

You want regional and national accreditation, but detec accreditation is worthless. Hmm. If by detec you mean DETC, I will have you know that DETC is national accreditation.

 

Edinburgh Business School of Heriot-Watt University offers the M.B.A., or M.Sc. in any of Financial Management, Human Resource Managmeent, Marketing or Strategic Planning, entirely by examination, the examinations are based on turnkey purpose-published texts included with the course tuition. There is one exam for each course. Degrees are seven courses (generic M.B.A., subject M.Scs.) to nine courses (M.B.As. with the generic core plus a specialism). So you could be seven examinations away from a degree. The examinations are NOT EASY. Exemptions, their term for transfer credit, may be available based on your prior qualifications, usually for no more than a course or two.

 

American Intercontinental University claims that its MBA can be finished in one year while you work.

 

Ted is correct. Nearly every regionally accredited school is not nationally accredited, institutionally; a regionally accredited school additionally gaining institutional accreditation from a national accreditor would generally be seen as offering very little, perhaps no added benefit to the school or its graduates. Specialized accreditation for individual programs or department schools within the school might, but while those specialized accreditors are national in scope, they are usually not called "national" accreditors, but rather specialized.

Separately, all of the regional accreditors are nationally recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

 

Agreed with Ted. It maybe worthless to you, but not worthless in general. (DETC, that is).

 

Yes, you guys are right. But I had an email correspondence with the degree acceptance department of "my" government regarding the Aspen degree. And they just told me that Aspen has no regional accreditation therefore is not "whitelisted". And since a phd program would cost me in my country almost nothing in tuition and I could write it in my motherlanguage this accreditation is essential for my decicion which master program I will pick.

 

The only three DL MBA programs that are regionally and nationally accredited are: American Military University www.apus.edu , which is regionally accredited by the North Central Association and nationally accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council; New York Institute of Technology www.nyit.edu , which is regionally accredited by the Middle States Association and nationally accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council; and Western Governors University www.wgu.edu , which is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission and nationally accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council. I know of no MBA programs nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools www.acics.org or the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology www.accsct.org that are also regionally accredited.

 

On the EBS thing: Nine courses with examination for the generic M.B.A. or M.Scs., eleven for the M.B.As. with specialism. My bad.

 

Edinburgh Business School of Heriot-Watt University: Thanks! I think I even know someone going there. Gonna try to find out a bit more about it.

American Intercontinental University: Interesting but $640/CreditHour is quite jucy

 

When you say regional and national accreditation, I'm wondering whether you mean regional and professional accreditation. When one speaks of professional accreditation, as Jonathan Whatley duly notes, one is referring to the specialized accreditation of a specific department or program within a department or school. In the case of business programs, professional accreditation means either the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business www.aacsb.edu or the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs www.acbsp.org . Of these, AACSB is more prestigious as it focuses on major research universities while ACBSP focuses more on smaller teaching colleges, but both are legit.

 

According to St Leo University "You have the ability to complete the 12 required courses (three semester hours per course) in as few as 12 months by taking two classes per 8-week term."

You could try this at other programs as well, if allowed.

 

I believe the DETC is the only national accreditor which has had schools also gain regional accreditation. I know of no other schools with other national accreditation which have also attained regional accreditation.

ITT, which is an ACICS accredited school, does offer an MBA, although it does not have regional accreditation.

Westwood College, which is an ACCSCT accredited school, also offers an MBA. Westwood is a candidate for regional accreditation.

Sometimes students and even some schools will refer to AACSB accreditation as "national accreditation". I think this is a bit misleading, because it is more proper to refer to it as "professional accreditation".