Good MBA Distance Or Online Course?

Q: Anyone know of a good MBA by distance or online delivery?

A:MBA Online Coordinator: Phone: 310-243-2714 Cost (at present): $8,000 total for the tuition. Cost of books: None (according to the school). The materials required are posted on-line. Number of courses: 10 ($800 per course) Admission standards: - Bachelor's (not necessarily in Business) from a regionally-accredited college or university - Minimum 2.75 (on a 4.0 scale) GPA in the last 60 semester credits of upper division courses earned in the Bachelor's degree. - GMAT: minimum score of 450, with minimum scores at or above the 25th. percentile on both the verbal and quantitative portions of the test, and a minimum score of 4.0 on the Analytical Writing Analysis. - Students whose first language is other than English must submit a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of 550 or higher. Undergraduate Management Competency - Unless your degree is in Management, Business, Commerce, or Economics, and was granted during the last 10 years, you will not be deemed to have met all undergraduate prerequisite courses. You must present evidence that you have general competence in the following areas: 1. Financial Accounting 2. Business Law 3. Information Systems 4. Economics 5. Business Finance 6. Management 7. Marketing 8. Business Statistics 9. Operations Research They apparently have alternative ways of meeting this competencies. For these options you must contact the MBA Online office. I hope this info. helps as a starting point. Good luck. As for me, this program, as well as others that I have checked out, have a heavy weighting on accounting and finance, which is ridiculous unless you want to work in those two areas. People who want the degree to teach or who want to use it in management, or as H.R. directors, should not have to go through this bean-counting emphasis. While the program should ensure a minimum competency in the bean-counting areas (say, one accounting and one finance course at the UNDERgraduate level), it should have an option of not having to take certain courses within the MBA program itself that the student will not utilize in his field. Why I want the MBA: 1) to teach college/university courses (NOT in accounting or finance, of course); 2) to have a marketable degree for the business world. I just don't see what the point is of having people take a whole bunch of accounting and finance courses -- courses that have a very narrow focus, unless

someone is going to specialize in those areas. As I said, a person who is going to be in management, or who is going to be running his own business, doesn't need the accounting/finance focus to an extensive degree. Yes, he needs basic knowledge in the area, sufficient to manage and run the business, but not exhaustively so. I suppose that reasonable minds could differ on this. By the way, can someone tell me if you actually need an MBA to teach in the business division at California government colleges and universities, or will a Masters in Management do. I know that you need a Masters, and I have been assuming they mean an MB

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