<p>Anyone know any or where i can find a list?</p>
<p>Columbia has one</p>
<p>Loyola Chicago has one for finance
Indiana University has one for accounting</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna has a 4+1 MBA program.</p>
<p>Waste of time. </p>
<p>BTW, good luck at getting into Columbia's MBA program straight out of undergrad.</p>
<p>vectorwega, why did u say this was a "waste of time"????
is 5yr MBA that bad?? share ur ideas</p>
<p>When you look at the general track people take, it's undergrad, work 2-5 years, MBA, work, retire. Companies have established hireing policies for people with BAs and MBAs. If you come out of school with an MBA and no work experience, it complicates things. Your degree makes you overqualified for entry level positions. Your work experience makes you underqualified for positions usually filled by people who just got their MBAs. An MBA is almost useless without work experience. Furthermore, most places that offer 5 year MBAs aren't the top places. You're better off working for 5 years and going to a top 20 MBA program than you are going straight through and getting a second tier MBA. </p>
<p>Another way to look at it is economically it does not make sense. The cost of a 5th year + potential money you could have been earning at an actual job (and then going on to a better MBA in the future) outweigh the benefits you would gain from most of these 5 year MBA programs.</p>
<p>The only time I can see this being worth it is if you plan to work for the government, where the advanced degree gets you on a higher pay scale. I don't think it works well in the private sector though.</p>
<p>With no experience you aren't going to be managing much of anything, and thus aren't that employable. You would be better off working for a period of time and then getting accepted into a good MBA programs (good programs rarely take students with no experience and generally when they do it is for exceptional students that have connections).</p>
<p>BTW, there is a thread from an MBA with this exact problem in the MBA forum:</p>
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<p>It is available to a group of students with work experience. They withhold the BA until the MBA is completed. Although, I agree with you on the experience comment. An MBA without experience is like having a boat with no oars.</p>
<p>My sons have an option to do first year college in the senior year. Thought they may be able to do BS in 3 and then the MBA in the last year. WHat value is there in attending their first year of college in HS, They will not be pursuing a Bachelors in the school that is providing the (on the HS site) college program.</p>
<p>^ The value would be from being able to enter the work force early. However, getting an MBA in the 4th year would close more doors than it would open. It would be a shame if they did that.</p>
<p>For some reason limiting "college life" to 3 years doesn't appeal to them. Not convinced it's worth the $30K to participate in the HS college program. I didn't realize the emphasis on experience w/ the MBA. What about JD?</p>
<p>It doesn't sound like it is worth it. It's quite possible that they could test out of some courses and/or take courses in the summer if they wanted to graduate early..which, understandably, it sounds like they would rather not.</p>
<p>Law school is typical of most graduate programs and does not require post-graduate work experience.</p>
<p>Thanks. Then I thought of remaining on campus their 4th year and attending law school but I don't think that will work. Hanging out with college seniors and attempting first year law would be more than a challenge!</p>
<p>My DD could have graduated a semester early and saving us $$$ since we were paying full fare. However, since she had already skipped a year at 8th grade, she begged us to let us stay in school with her peers since she was having so much fun.</p>