Capella University MBA Thoughts Please?

[Yanji]

I wouldn't recommend doing an online MBA full-time at all. Before even speculating on the possibility of doing 6 courses per quarter, online MBAs are almost universally intended to be completed part-time, and as a professional degree, its purpose is to increase the professional value of its students. If there was evidence that completing an online MBA full-time reliably increased students' professional values, you would see more business schools promoting this as a viable route for students, but they don't for a reason. The business community is quite accepting of online MBAs, but consensus is that if you do one full-time, you put your butt in a seat. You should consider a local 1-year full-time program if one exists or working while you do your MBA online. People respect someone who gave up their evenings and weekends for 2-3 years to improve themselves, and that is one thing that an online MBA can give you that a full-time MBA cannot... you should take advantage of that. You could also consider programs like MS Information Systems, MS Finance, etc. that are generally more appropriate to finish online in a year and would give you specialized knowledge that an MBA couldn't.

Any degree is a life-changing decision, so you should take the path that leads to the best outcome.