List of Cheap Online MBA Programs That Can Be Completed in Under 1 Year

[bjcheung77]

If we consider the most affordable options, would you recommend an MBA from HAU for $3,000, which is RA, or Edgewood, which has additional RA + ACBSP accreditation for $5,500?
What are your suggestions? Perhaps there are more alternatives?

Depends on what you need and want. It boils down to cost, ease, speed to finish and if you need that extra programmatic or secondary accreditation. Here's a post I just did a few minutes ago to answer your other MBA question: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...f-Business

[artem]

Depends on what you need and want.  It boils down to cost, ease, speed to finish and if you need that extra programmatic or secondary accreditation.  Here's a post I just did a few minutes ago to answer your other MBA question: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...f-Business

Thanks for the answer.
Do you think ACBSP  accreditation is important for the US market?
Which MBA do you think would be easier to complete?

[bjcheung77]

For MBA, the HAU is a steal at $3K with the scholarship. For MAOL, UMPI would be the best option. TESU/WGU both have ACBSP, it's not really important to have that, but I chose TESU over COSC and Excelsior because of it, the cost, ease, speed to finish was comparable as well, if not better overall.

[artem]

What do you think about the Boston University OMBA program? It's fully online, costs $25,000, and takes two years to complete. It's very comparable to the iMBA.
Which is more prestigious: Questrom School of Business or Gies College of Business?

[SteveFoerster]

If we consider the most affordable options, would you recommend an MBA from HAU for $3,000, which is RA, or Edgewood, which has additional RA + ACBSP accreditation for $5,500?
What are your suggestions? Perhaps there are more alternatives?

I would pay zero extra dollars for ACBSP or IACBE accreditation. In more than twenty years of watching this space, I have yet to see any evidence that employers place any value on it when hiring, or that graduate schools place any value on it for admissions. 

(AACSB is another matter. That's potentially worth a premium, depending on what one's goals are.)

[NotJoeBiden]

If we consider the most affordable options, would you recommend an MBA from HAU for $3,000, which is RA, or Edgewood, which has additional RA + ACBSP accreditation for $5,500?
What are your suggestions? Perhaps there are more alternatives?

I would pay zero extra dollars for ACBSP or IACBE accreditation. In more than twenty years of watching this space, I have yet to see any evidence that employers place any value on it when hiring, or that graduate schools place any value on it for admissions. 

(AACSB is another matter. That's potentially worth a premium, depending on what one's goals are.)

Can you explain more about AACSB accreditation and how you have seen value in it over the years?

[SteveFoerster]

Can you explain more about AACSB accreditation and how you have seen value in it over the years?

Schools whose business programs have or aspire to have AACSB accreditation prefer to hire faculty, even in adjunct positions, whose MBAs and doctorates are from AACSB accredited programs. 

There's a pretty big intersection between the set of business schools that are highly ranked and the set of those whose programs have AACSB accreditation, so by association it's considered prestigious for one's programs to have it.

[SophiaPrincess]

What do you think about the Boston University OMBA program? It's fully online, costs $25,000, and takes two years to complete. It's very comparable to the iMBA.
Which is more prestigious: Questrom School of Business or Gies College of Business?

They are both great schools with solid reputations. Gies used to rank higher than Questrom. Since Gies went online only, they are no longer submitting data to be ranked. Questrom's online program is also unranked. Gies requires 72 credits for their MBA, as I recall, but courses are 4 credit hours. Some have reported that the workload is no more than 3 credit hour courses. 

Questrom has innovative/creative/weird course titles that would be difficult to transfer if you changed schools. Since all Gies master's degrees are online only, employers will know your degree was earned online. It might not matter. Questrom continues its residential MBA. Gies has a HUGE global alumni network, but Questrom is stronger in New England. I can't speak authoritatively to the quality of an alumni network comprised of graduates who have never stepped foot on campus. Still, I suspect alumni with stronger ties to their alma mater will support each other more strongly.

Please let us know what you decide and your experience as a student.

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What do you think about the Boston University OMBA program? It's fully online, costs $25,000, and takes two years to complete. It's very comparable to the iMBA.
Which is more prestigious: Questrom School of Business or Gies College of Business?

What do you think about the Boston University OMBA program? It's fully online, costs $25,000, and takes two years to complete. It's very comparable to the iMBA.
Which is more prestigious: Questrom School of Business or Gies College of Business?

They are both great schools with solid reputations. Gies used to rank higher than Questrom. Since Gies went online only, they are no longer submitting data to be ranked. Questrom's online program is also unranked. Gies requires 72 credits for their MBA, as I recall, but courses are 4 credit hours. Some have reported that the workload is no more than 3 credit hour courses. 

Questrom has innovative/creative/weird course titles that would be difficult to transfer if you changed schools. Since all Gies master's degrees are online only, employers will know your degree was earned online. It might not matter. Questrom continues its residential MBA. Gies has a HUGE global alumni network, but Questrom is stronger in New England. I can't speak authoritatively to the quality of an alumni network comprised of graduates who have never stepped foot on campus. Still, I suspect alumni with stronger ties to their alma mater will support each other more strongly.

Please let us know what you decide and your experience as a student.

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artem
What do you think about the Boston University OMBA program? It's fully online, costs $25,000, and takes two years to complete. It's very comparable to the iMBA.
Which is more prestigious: Questrom School of Business or Gies College of Business?
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They are both great schools with solid reputations. Gies used to rank higher than Questrom. Since Gies went online only, they are no longer submitting data to be ranked. Questrom's online program is also unranked. Gies requires 72 credits for their MBA, as I recall, but courses are 4 credit hours. Some have reported that the workload is no more than 3 credit hour courses.

Questrom has innovative/creative/weird course titles that would be difficult to transfer if you changed schools. Since all Gies master's degrees are online only, employers will know your degree was earned online. It might not matter. Questrom continues its residential MBA. Gies has a HUGE global alumni network, but Questrom is stronger in New England. I can't speak authoritatively to the quality of an alumni network comprised of graduates who have never stepped foot on campus. Still, I suspect alumni with stronger ties to their alma mater will support each other more strongly.

Please let us know what you decide and your experience as a student.