Lowest cost online MBA's (USA or Abroad)

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Before getting excited about UofP, read up on them on here. Many people have tried it and aren't fond of it for a variety of reasons. I've worked in HR and no way would I even interview someone who has a degree from a place called University of the People. It sounds like a fake school. It's national accredited and quite honestly, I'm not even sure how they got that far. Their professors are volunteers not on staff. Students grade each other's assignments.

If you want an MBA, then you need to put the time into a quality MBA program. Why discount WGU? Plenty of people have families, jobs, and lives and still complete their master's degree at WGU in a year which is 2 terms. It's called making the time and setting a schedule which is what you have to do for any degree at any school.

LSU Shreveport has an MBA program for under $13,000. Lots of schools have programs like this, you just have to do the research. Far more people have heard of LSU and WGU than UofP. LSA and WGU are also regionally accredited. The accreditation may be a factor depending where you live and what jobs you're looking for now and in the future. Yes, there are actually jobs out there where accreditation matters. Like it or not, disagree or not, that's how it is.  

I get that people outside the know would give it a quick dismissal based on name alone, but I would hope that wouldn't happen if the receiver knows it's a legitimately accredited school, because there are some RA names out there too that sound ridiculous but are otherwise decent schools (see Goucher, pronounced "GOW-CHUR"). 

Just a note: Instructors there do grade some assignments, like the finals in capstone's for example. They also partly grade and have to approve class discussion peer grades. Where the big problem is and I agree with you on, is where the general papers are graded by peers. This leads to all kinds of grading disputes. If you're a person that likes to debate a lot, this might be a fun experience, but if you would rather not have to do that on nearly every paper you write because somebody graded you improperly since they don't speak English well and don't fully understand what you're saying, or because they don't like you and have a vendetta, that won't be fun at all.

"University of the People" and "Goucher" aren't really comparable in the Ridiculous School Name stakes. UoP is more like "The School of Hard Knocks" or "The University of Life." The things people who didn't go to college put under "Education" on their Facebook profile. It was a stupid idea to give it this name. Your average hiring manager is going to take one look at it, shake their head, and move on to the next application. They're not going to bother researching it. As it is, they're bypassing University of Phoenix, DeVry, ITT, Ashford, etc. "University of the People" is one of those things that will be shared around the office with an LOL emoji.

If the people running UoP had any brains (or marketing smarts) AT ALL, they would change it. Recruiters and hiring managers spend mere seconds perusing a CV for suitability, and that name will inevitably send it to the trash bin.