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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't consider an MBA to be prestigious these days, regardless of the university. Everyone has one. They are as common as BA/BS degrees. Also, most MBA programs can now be completed fairly easily online even from prestigious universities. [/quote]

My spoiled niece had her retired dad do most of her online MBA work. They are a total farce. And I believe Georgetown has all sorts of online and weekend MBA programs, so who knows who actually did a “real” one. Credentialism has jumped the shark. Too many nitwits with too many bogus degrees.[/quote]

I think it is relatively easy to differentiate between a full MBA at the business school and abbreviated MBAs at extension schools.  I imagine most schools are quite clear about notifying students about how to describe their “degree”.  At least at Georgetown they were and I was in the regular full program.

I would never assume an executive MBA had any relationship to a full MBA.  It doesn’t make a full MBA useless just because a condensed versions, which can be differentiated, exist.[/quote]

Doesn’t Georgetown offer both an executive MBA (or profession development / night school) as well as a real MBA?

Are they really much different?  Are they perceived differently by employers?[/quote]

Anyone who is hiring MBA’s is able to differentiate between these.  I would not have the same expectations of the education of a full program vs a partial program.  Similarly I wouldn’t have the same expectations of someone who went to Harvard vs Phoenix online.

That said, it isn’t the time of day classes are taken that is the differentiator.  You can do a full program and take some classes in the evening, or take twice as long and do it part time.  The difference is whether you are fulfilling all of the credit hours, classes, and graduation requirements of the full program at the business school with the business school professors.[/quote]

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