[Dennis Kalma]

Personally, having worked as an executive for the past 12 years and in management for much of the 15 years before that, I find MBA's HIGHLY overvalued. It is rare to find anyone who came out of an MBA programme anywhere that has balanced analytical, people and strategic skills...the programmes seem to beat the humanity out of the graduates and instill them simultaneously with the arrogance that they are actually better than the people they lead and the customers they serve.

I pretty well automatically relegate resume's with MBA on it to the "maybe" pile and have hired few of them in my history. Oh yeah, and my test to find whether someone has an MBA or not (short of asking or checking the resume) is to ask them about the department...if they refer to their staff as "resources" you probably have an MBA on your hands...

I know this is unpopular, but near as I can tell MBA programmes are more a way for universities to fund their other programmes than they are a method of developing management talent for industry......

Good luck whatever you decide....

Dennis