<p>Does anyone here know anything about getting an online MBA? I'm kind of interested, but don't really know where to start.</p>
<p>start here: </p>
<p>Google the following:</p>
<p>"online MBA" site:.edu</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chicagogsb.edu/execmba/index.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://www.chicagogsb.edu/execmba/index.aspx</a>
This is a very cool program from Chicago, though they may be interested in a somewhat older candidate with some work experience. I know a couple of Americans living in Asia who did the Chicago program and found it exhilarating. </p>
<p>Duke's Fuqua has one too, also highly recommended:
<a href="http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/mba/executive/global/%5B/url%5D">http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/mba/executive/global/</a></p>
<p>I've known several foreign service employees who have done the Fuqua program.</p>
<p>It's just something I was talking to a friend at work about today. I've been kind of interested in it since I graduated. She's currently getting hers online from some school in colorado. I'm not sure yet if i'm going to do it, but i'm def. checking it out.. especially since my company would pay for it and I think it would be a great experience.</p>
<p>I remember a couple years ago watching a program comparing online universities and the traditionals (I think it was 20/20). The key figures in the show were from University of Phoenix (the largest university in the world... online or otherwise) and Harvard.</p>
<p>No one on the show would criticize the work that UofP is doing. It was compliments all around. But the most telling comment of the program came from one of the Harvard people.</p>
<p>They commented that Harvard has a 400 year old infrastructure they have to support. They ask people to interrupt their lives for years and come devote themselves to their degree. UofP does not have that. Within 10-15 years they predicted they would face the most daunting challenge in university education. UofP has the resources to come and cherry-pick the best minds from the best universities. They are in a position to offer their top professors twice the amount of money, book deals, and a lifestyle that the traditional universities simply cannot compete with.</p>
<p>Do not be afraid of the distance degrees at all. And as with all degree programs, pick the right school.</p>
<p>I work for a major corporation that literally has thousands of employees across the country doing MBAs on-line. There are many who are doing MBAs at Uop as we provide tuition reimbursement for courses taken there. </p>
<p>What I have found, those that are doing UoPs tell me that it is a faced paced program where classes are held in 6 week cycles. There are discussion question, a weekly paper and a weekly group assisgnment. A student really gets to know their organizational structure and uses their organziation as a model to do their projects. The courses that they take are classes that they are able to use right there in the work place.</p>