Gary Eckstein

Students studying one of the Business Services Training Package (BSB07) certificate or diploma qualifications occasionally ask how useful the course will be towards attaining a place on a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Unfortunately there is no simple answer due to a number of factors:

Good MBA schools are expensive to attend and provide an excellent education. The majority of MBA schools however are of a poor quality and are quite simply a waste of time (i.e. job advancement after attaining an MBA won’t be forthcoming and the course content will be inadequate). When selecting a MBA school to attend it is always a good idea to attend one of the best. There are two means of discovering the worth of an MBA school; rankings and accreditation;

• Rankings: Ranking of MBA schools and programs is a contentious issue as the means of ranking and interpretation of data is sometimes questionable. The most respected rankings are those by the Financial Times, The Economist and Businessweek. Choose a school or program ranked in the in the top 50 to be guaranteed of a good MBA program.
• Accreditation: There are three major MBA accreditation bodies; EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. Accreditation by any of these three guarantees a reasonable standard of education (a few Schools such as Henley Business School are accredited by all three).

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