MBA or MA - Canadian Student

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University of Massachusetts Global has a self-paced MA in Organizational Leadership, but "Global" makes it obvious that it's an online branch for UMass.

https://www.umassglobal.edu/academic-pro...ip-my-path

The same applies to Purdue Global. It's a public university, but "Global" indicates that it's a virtual university.

https://www.purdueglobal.edu/degree-prog...ba-degree/

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UMass Global is Brandman. The MAOL is the EXACT same degree ashkir completed at UMPI. It's VERY intensive. 

At Purdue Global only the ExcelTrack degree programs are CBE. Purdue Global is VERY writing intensive especially the ExcelTrack. Purdue Global is also NOT Purdue University. It's a satellite campus. Only the actual Purdue University campus is now called Purdue. Every other campus is now Purdue - whatever city it's located in. The diplomas also say Purdue Global. PUG is a private school not a public university. They've gotten weird with how they're labeling everything there. I believe it's from the backlash of buying Kaplan and calling it Purdue when it's really not.

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A degree from one of the bigger name state universities would be cool and all, but I was just thinking that a competency based degree, from one of these smaller online universities would probably be easier.  Wouldn't it? 

I know a masters is not going to be as easy as the whole ''testing out'' process for a bachelors, but I would assume some courses/programs have to be easier than others.
I have to admit, the thought of writing endless essays again makes me sick haha.  I would much rather have more tests/assignments than essays, if possible.  I know I probably don't have much choice in that matter.

Brand name isn't the biggest deciding factor for me, it's more just to check the box.  In my experience, as long as you have a degree from a western country, nobody really cares where it's from to a certain degree.  I know someone who has a Australian MBA, and I doubt anyone has really looked down on it. 

Has anyone on here done one of the online programs for one of those state universities? 
Just kind of wondering what the advantage would be for me to go to one of those, other than the name.  

I believe there are also many online based masters degrees from Canada as well.

Graduate degrees require a lot of writing. In grad programs you're often working with the theory of the topic - so what makes it function, why, how. All that jazz. You're not implementing it. Like in Business Law you learn what the basic concepts of law are in undergrad. It grad you'd learn about how the concepts were developed and what makes them work. You'd be writing about this. In the grad classes I've completed, there were very few tests. It's all been writing for me except for 2 tests. Grad CBE programs are pretty much writing. 

Sure some programs will be easier for some people. It all depends on your knowledge, experience, and interest in the topic. I'd fail a class on tropical birds because I just don't care. I could write about them, but it wouldn't be very good. Now give me project management and I can write and talk about that for days. 

The marketing degree I'm finishing now I can't wait to finish. It's been painful. I'm just not interested in it which is really weird because I was very interested in marketing but as I've worked through the classes I've discovered that there is so much about marketing I dislike that it's made the work very hard to complete. I'm also not someone who falls in line with many of the principles and ideals of marketing. I don't watch commercials. I will change the channel, turn off the tv, pay not to have commercials, leave a website, etc because of commercials. I don't watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. I don't watch it at all. Things like this have caused me some issues with a few professors because I don't fit the mold and I'm going against the grain so to speak. 

I would say find a program and a topic that really interests you. That's the hardest part I think. It's not really about the school's name. It's the courses and their content. Unless your degree comes from one of the big names - UCLA, Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, etc no one is going to care. Sometimes going to an unknown school is a good thing. If the school isn't known for anything that means it's not known for controversies like being a party school, a school where rape is common, all of the problems that have plagued schools like Liberty, Capella, and U of Phoenix. Being under the radar can be a very good thing.