Online MBA Students May Face Challenges With Degree Reputation
Online graduates of reputable b-schools should downplay the online component, a recruiter says.
December 24, 2012 RSS Feed Print
However flexible online MBA programs are for students, employers have not yet bought into them fully.
When they promote their online MBAprograms, business schools that offer online executive education invariably refer to the flexibility those programs afford to students, who don't need to show up in a particular classroom at a specific time. Although MBA graduates may need to don suits when they later work in the C-suite, they can study in their pajamas if they go to b-school online, or more easily juggle an online MBA program with a full-time job.
But schools need to grapple with another aspect of online MBA programs' reputations—the notion that executive education