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This solipsism is embarrassing.  Younger full-time students are more intensely committed to their educations.[/quote]
Young full-time MBA students endure a much higher opportunity cost to attend an MBA program than do EMBA students. EMBA students continue to work full-time.[/quote]

I'm a business professor.  EMBA courses must be "dumbed down" technically and generally have fewer contact hours.  Students don't learn as much when they have 6-8 hours of class on a Saturday, and have much less homework.

It is no surprise that students who spend 2 years on full-time education learn more technical material than executives who take part-time classes.  [b]The hourly opportunity cost is higher for EMBA[/b], so they spend less time.  But the marginal impact of knowledge is higher, because EMBA students can immediately put concepts into practice.

Business schools market programs that serve the needs and schedules of students.  This is a good thing.  But don't pretend executive/online/night-school degrees are identical to full-time counterparts.

Even within a degree program, there are easy and hard classes.  When I interviewed Wall Street candidates, I asked students what their favorite courses were, who the professors were, and what the students liked.  Students were shocked.  I was shocked that they spent 4 years in college and didn't want to tell me what they learned.[/quote]

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