ENEB Master Thread

[freeloader]

ENEB at $300 is for a niche of students who cannot afford more expensive education. The time spent studying is not wasted time. My recommendation is that if one could pay for the more expensive, more mainstream qualification such as Título official or RA, then that is the obvious better choice.
Many of us who are not privileged have to balanced utility, cost, and knowledge.

I agree that the ENEB credential is niche, but I disagree that anybody who can pursue a higher status degree should. I used to work as an insurance broker and many of the people that I worked with would have LOVED to have the letters MBA after their name on their business cards. How many potential clients would actually ask where they got their degree?  And, if the client did ask and the salesman said “European Business School in Barcelona” or “Universidad Isabel I”, how many clients would actually know what that means or take the time to figure it out? Very few, I should think. 

I think a lot of people in sales would benefit from those letters on their business card. Realistically, the ROI of an MBA for a lot of people in sales wouldn’t be very high; it probably would be negative for many people. Its value would likely center around the network that you would build in school and the potential employment that you might secure using that network.  If you can go to a top 20-type nationally ranked university or the flag ship public university in your state, that would almost certainly make more sense than a $300 degree from Groupon.  But then, when people are lining up their acceptance letters and deciding where to attend, I doubt any are saying “Michigan, nope, Cal Berkeley, nope, University of Texas, nope, University of Wisconsin, nope, London School of Economics, nope, ENEB, YES!”

The real question, then, is which makes more sense: a degree from a regional state university with a limited, regional alumni base and academic reputation/ranking that says it is middle-of-the-road (or the private school equivalent of that) for perhaps $15,000-$40,000 or an ENEB degree for $300 plus some costs for evaluation and transcripts. I would argue that ENEB is a FAR better investment for many people.