[Z-man]

Looking to the Pelican braintrust about this...

My company is offering an MBA program with a school in NY: Excelsior College. (Formerly Regents College of the University of New York) They are basically an online school, but are funded by the state of New York.

The reason this program is attractive is that besides the 5 courses which will be taken online, the rest of the classes would be taught in classrooms in the building where I work. Corporate College Services is the outfit that coordinates the classes between my company and Excelsior College.

Excelsior College is regionaly accredited to award college degrees by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. According to the rep from Corporate College Services, this is the same accreditation that Rutgers U, and Seton Hall, William Paterson University, and Montclair State University have. (All schools in NJ).

The program is quite attractive -- each course takes 7 weeks to complete, and we would meet one night a week for 4 hours. It takes about 2.5 years to complete the course, and no GMAT test is required.

So -- is there a higher accreditation that I should be concerned with?

I would like to get going with obtaining my MBA, and this program seems to be catered towards folks who are in the corporate world. But would I be selling myself short by doing this program vs. the traditional "Brick and Mortar" school?

What are your thoughts?

-Z-man.