Is an Online MBA worth it?

[Anonymous]

As a professor at a top 50 business school, I can tell you that my colleagues who teach in our online program take it seriously and teach the same materials that they do in person. I am not sure if there is any residential component but a lot of times schools will bring everyone into campus (often only optionally, not mandatory) to at least have some face-to-face interaction. You will also no doubt do a lot of group work with your classmates but obviously only over Zoom and e-mail. People say MBA is all about connections but TBH that's not really how job placement works in business schools outside the Top 10. The career services office will provide more or less support at different schools and to different programs but ultimately what really matters is what companies recruit at the school, whether support for recruiting/job search is provided to your program, etc. I have no idea if our OMBA students get the same career services support but I highly doubt it. This would hinder your ability to find a job at graduation. But no students are getting other students jobs through connections even in the full time in person program

[Anonymous]

Don't let them get snarky - every MBA program was online last year.

[Anonymous]

10:48, out to the top 15 or 16 is one set of schools and maybe another 10 after that worth going to. But it depends on what OP wants. For example, Ohio State has a good business school and if you want to stay in Ohio forever, good choice. but I would think that there are enough Ohio State grads of all stripes in every large city that you can find on LinkedIn if you want introductions to companies.

[Anonymous]

Unless you're trying to pivot and can't go in person or are doing it to check a box probably not. MBAs are about in person networking. Nothing else.

[Anonymous]

There is one thing known as dime a dozen but online MBAs are penny a dozen. Seriously, no need and you would be under crap load of debt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a professor at a top 50 business school, I can tell you that my colleagues who teach in our online program take it seriously and teach the same materials that they do in person. I am not sure if there is any residential component but a lot of times schools will bring everyone into campus (often only optionally, not mandatory) to at least have some face-to-face interaction. You will also no doubt do a lot of group work with your classmates but obviously only over Zoom and e-mail. People say MBA is all about connections but TBH that's not really how job placement works in business schools outside the Top 10. The career services office will provide more or less support at different schools and to different programs but ultimately what really matters is what companies recruit at the school, whether support for recruiting/job search is provided to your program, etc. I have no idea if our OMBA students get the same career services support but I highly doubt it. This would hinder your ability to find a job at graduation. But no students are getting other students jobs through connections even in the full time in person program

I generally agree with this. As someone who did a full time MBA at Georgetown a decade ago, I was pleased with the companies that recruited there. Through Georgetown, I interviewed at Nike, 3M, Miller Coors, Pepsi, Google, Toyota, AmEx, and a bunch more.

I have found our alumni base important, and have used it (friends from my class and others) to switch jobs since graduating. I have also gotten jobs for probably a dozen grads over the past decade.