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Is part time MBA credible? |
| Message Name: |
PT is better |
| Date Posted: |
04/26/2001 |
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I wouldn't say it's the "point" of PT programs that students can't participate in full-time on-campus recruiting. The reason for that is that most PT students have all or part of their tuition paid for by employers; schools don't want to kill the golden goose by angering employers by helping their employees get new jobs.
So I don't think that PT students, and I know that I wasn't, "complain re recruiting efforts." My point was that FT students seem jealous of PT students' ability to get jobs. Whether that's really true or not I don't know, but I do know that at U of C PT students don't feel threatened by FT students but FT students apparently feel threatened by PT students.
I agree that the quickest and certainly the easiest way to change jobs and get an MBA is FT. FT students have it easy--I work 60+ hours a week at my job, while maintaining an A average on a forced curve at school, in competition against FT students whose full-time job is to take 1 or 2 courses more than me a quarter. One class of mine had 2/3 FT students. But maybe that's why employers may prefer PT students--they've proved they can hack it. |
| Message: |
I've done both FT and PT. PT is by far better. Case studies will only get you so far. Unless you can immediately apply your studies you are missing out on a large part of the experience.
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