re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

Realistically, what do you guys think the benefit of a concentration or specialization will be? I called and spoke to an adviser. Apparently, the diploma will still just say MBA. The only place where it will indicate your specialization will be on your transcript.

Even the project management specialization doesn't offer additional certification. Just an entry on the transcript...

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Just saw this email the MBA Director sent out. Wonder what it means:

On Behalf of the MBA Director:

A proposal is in the approval process to implement changes to the foundation course requirements. If you have questions about how these changes might affect your fall schedule, please contact Danielle Voumard at 318-797-5213. Until we resolve what will occur with the foundation courses, you may find it beneficial to register for classes not requiring prerequisites including MKT 701, MADM 701, or one of the available electives.

I emailed a connection involved with the program and this was their response.

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The university is in the process of discussing whether or not the pre-requisite courses should be mandatory for students who have no previous courses/background in Economics, Finance, Accounting, and Statistics. They are close to finalizing a decision, but a final decision is yet to be made. Students will know of the final outcome; you will receive an email with the final decision.

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From my understanding this will only affect those who don't have a business degree. Hope this helps

While I agree, there has to be some sort of requirement for eligibility other than a Bachelor's Degree. Other MBA programs require certain courses to be taken before admittance. At least with this one, they offer supplemental courses during the program.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of them dropping the pre-reqs myself given the admission requirements are pretty low to begin with. In fact, I think they should probably split the Econ and Stats pre-reqs into 2 separate classes because that course is mostly Stats with Econ bolted on as an afterthought. I really liked the accounting pre-req but agree the Acct 701 course was a review of the same material. It needs to be more than that.

And I'm no math whiz, but I am also shocked by the number of students struggling with fairly basic math in these courses. I've needed to watch a few Khan Academy videos to refresh my memory on some concepts, but some of these people seem totally incapable (or unwilling) to brush up on this stuff without the professor holding their hand.

(I do like the new specializations / concentrations, though. That's a nice improvement, but I'm probably still going to just stick with my original Finance concentration path.)

Agree with you DieDaily and Jeaux Cool - this is a Graduate program in BUSINESS. The professor should not have to hold hands on basic and even intermediate math concepts that those with a Bachelors in Business would have learned in freshman or sophomore year.

Put simply, Graduate classes should be HARDER than undergrad classes. It's an advanced degree. Sometimes that gets lost.

Apologize in advance if I'm coming off hard but if I were to seek an advanced degree in a non-business field like literature or history, I'd go in assuming I'd have to take pre-req's and get up to speed.

You nailed it, Cool. When pursuing an MBA degree, we should all assume and EXPECT it to be hard.

I'll be honest, I've had moments in this program when I've complained about assignments that I felt were hard. It was more from frustration, and the fact that I received my Bachelor's degree 27 years ago and was rusty as I got back into the study mode.

But I really want this program to challenge us. I do not want to "buy an MBA". It needs to be challenging enough that we learned something worthwhile. Then when we're done we'll be proud of the hard work it took.