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Online MBA becomes more popular
Traditional ways to get MBA vary now. Today not many people may afford themselves leaving their job and to live carelessly, getting education in one of the universities of the world. But now even for such people there is a possibility to get MBA.
According to the New York Times information online MBA program becomes
more and more popular nowdays. It occurs basically because they are
trusted more than earlier. One of the most popular Internetuniversities today is University of Phoenix Online.
University of Phoenix Online is the biggest educational institution
for working people in the USA. From the date of its foundation in 1976
the university became more and more known thanks to quality of
education.
"Whether you wish to finish the education or to get degree or to
begin new career, University of Phoenix Online is for you. Here you can
gain degree of the Bachelor, the Master or the Doctor. At university
you can find special centre called Continuing Teacher Education which
offers improvement of professional skills for people combining work
and home life with education. So the advertising slogan on site
University of Phoenix Online says.
Jack Byrne, the student in Natchez, says, that now people are very
busy, that's why the success awaits for University of Phoenix Online.
Nevertheless he says, that he never would began to study in a place
like that.
"Never", - says Byrne. "It is impossible to do without classess in an audience. Such programs lack real dialogue between teachers and students. It is not in what I would like to be engaged".
Other students, for example first-year student Matthew Cooper, the future economist from Tyler, Texas, says, that he likes idea of gaining of MBA degree on the Internet.
"Such classes are very interesting for me", - Cooper says. "It is good, that it is possible to visit classes and thus not to leave a job".
Unlike University of Phoenix Online other similar universities work only through the Internet.
MBA Program in Cardean Online also is accredited. Cardean University Courses are developed by some leading educational institutions: Columbia Business School, Stanford University, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon and London School of Economics and Political Science.
Tuition in Cardean makes $1,500 for a course or $22,500 for the total program which is necessary to get MBA. Payment for studying materials, textbooks etc., is about $2,000. Also application fee for the program is $75. Cost of the computer, the software, payment for time spent in a network are not considered at all.
Though at Internet universities of the USA there are basucally Americans, students from abroad also show interest to the American education. Internet also promotes that.
The President Ole Miss Business School Jim Jacobs has got three degrees in Jackson. He says that online education has advantages and disadvantages.
"Personally I think that a lot can be said in protection of studies in audiences, but basically internal programs demand four-five years of an work experience which is usually impossible for future MBA students. Online MBA program is the best decision for those who cannot leave their job, but wish to get MBA degree", - Jacobs says. "It also reduces quantity of the hours spent on education. But in that case for successful study more self-control is required". |