What's the Money Board's take on the Flores MBA Program...

You don't need an MBA to do financial planning.

If you want to do finance, Carlos's MFin program is probably a better and cheaper route. If you want to do I Banking, you should target a more prestigious MBA program. LSU puts only a couple of MBA grads into I banking each year. If you want to do commercial banking, it probably is a good fit. They get recruited aggressively by commercial banks.

Trump university is cheaper and faster.

Plus, you won't have to have the word "shreveport" on your resume.

I don't see the problem with his comment.

I imagine having LSU Shreveport on your resume closes some doors outside of the state, just like many other schools in various locations.

So it looks bad on your resume outside of LA? I think it doesn't have the appeal lets say, out west or up north, but down around LA, TX, MS and AL...should be just fine.

I assumed you were joking. I was just bringing it to the next level.

Getting an MBA from a directional school, or even worse a satellite campus, only makes sense if you are trying to check a box for government work. You would be a lot better off getting a fake degree for $100 and then just watching a bunch of online lectures from Ivy League schools.

Having a low quality MBA on your resume just tells me that you make bad decisions. I would be much more impressed if someone just listed the online Yale courses they watched.

As I recall from my time, about 10 years ago, maybe a third of the class ended up in an internal audit role at a public company or big 4 firm, the same role that the UNDEGRADS get going through the same program. Not sure if that's still the case these days.

Thanks for the feedback. It's good to hear your take on it. Similar to yourself, I have thought long and hard about which specializations to choose from when I ultimately begin the program in August.

Quite Honestly, one of the reasons for me enrolling into the program is because I am unable to leverage my Bachelor's Degree (Sport Commerce) to the optimum level I would like. Frankly, it is simply not a widely respected degree and understandably so.

Finance (Venture Capitalism specifically ), Financial Planning, Internal Audit, and Management Consulting have all peaked my interest and I am eager to learn more about these fields before I commit to one (or two) specializations.

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I disagree. I wouldn't go for just fine. It will also look extremely bad if he worked near Baton Rouge in the same time frame he got a degree from LSUS. That would throw up red flags for me if I was hiring.

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I don't see credibility being any higher with a distance learning program if it is the other way around either. Say the person lives in North LA and wants to do LSUS or LaTech. Why are taking online classes through LSU-BR so much better in that situation? I think it makes more since and comes across more credible for someone to do night/weekend/online classes at a nearby school while working full time. I am skeptical of the power of the name when it is obvious on the resume you did distance learning for an MBA across the state/region/country. Outside of some Ivy League degree I can't see anyone making huge differentiations as long as it came from an acredited program from a brick and mortar school.

Also I would think the people getting the most out of MBAs should be non business degreed professionals. Why would a company look down on someone who is just getting some exposure as an add on to their profession like any continuing ed coursework? I would also think anyone that is pursueing an MBA has legit work experience so the MBA is still an add on accomplishment way down the list. If the MBA is highlight of the resume then I think that is a bad sign.

I guess if you just have a business degree or some bull shite degree then getting a very prestegious MBA should be the goal. Are the prestegious programs even interested in that type of candidate without legit experience.

I don't think it's a question about being "Hopeful". MBA candidates through the various programs will ABSOLUTELY open more doors through class interaction, social gatherings, and recruitment events.