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Online MBAs

Are online MBAs on the rise? It seems so, but not for the reasons you might think. In fact distance-learned MBAs often charge the same fees as their campus-MBA counterparts. After all, AACSB and EQUIS accreditation means that business schools are accredited across the whole school, ensuring that a DLMBA is just as good an education as a campus-based one.

It's all about flexibility, says William McDonald of Thunderbird School of Management on this video on www.topmba.com. He talked to me about a whole host of reasons for why more and more people are considering a distance MBA.

“The generation moving into the MBA age now is used to learning in that [online] environment, acquiring information from that perspective. There’s a level of trust in where the information was coming from that the previous generation of MBAs was not accustomed to,” he says.

Crucially, it’s not just the MBA students that find online learning easier but the faculty, professors who did not grow up in the Internet generation, are finding it easier too. “Even faculty that aren’t tech-savvy find it easier to post video lectures, hosting chats and so on.”

But hey, enough of my yakkin'. Take a look at the video for yourself. www.topmba.com (scroll down to the bottom left).

Nyenrode reopens International MBA

Nyenrode waives some tuition fees for re-launched International MBA

Holland’s Nyenrode Business School has re-launched its IMBA programme after a one year hiatus where it restructured the course curriculum and the course financing structure. And as a sweetener, the school is offering some places with 100% fees dispensation.

Nyenrode had relied on Dutch banking giant ABN-AMRO to provide the majority of students with loans for the MBA programme in the past, the tightening of that bank’s belt during the recession made finding the funds for the program even harder. Nyenrode took the opportunity, according to Dr. Désirée van Gorp, the IMBA Director, “to take a radical look at the curriculum.

“We’ve changed to focus a lot more on personal development and leadership,” she continues. “We allocate one day a week on the course to this. Each Friday we have topics on leadership, meetings with CEOs, small diverse groups talking with business leaders, boot camps taking the students out of their comfort zone.”

With a target of about 40 MBA students, Nyenrode – which means new roads in Dutch – is keen to promote a boutique feel to the course, with a high level of diversity and candidate competence. And to achieve this the school is offering, for exceptional candidates, tuition fees will be waived by up to 100%.

“As a small school,” says Dr. van Gorp, “in order to have a level playing field we have tuition waivers of 100% for the top quality student. It depends on candidates’ abilities. We are in competition with other business schools for the top candidates that we want to attract [so] the fee waiver is one way of achieving this.”

For more information about Nyenrode Business Universiteit, visit:

http://www.topmba.com/school_profile/nyenrode-business-universiteit/