re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

I'll say this:

It's rarely useful to make generalizations and extrapolate them onto an entire group of people. That's called stereotyping folks. It's also just as useful to publicly express negative opinions about the competency of others.

There shouldn't be tolerance for either, especially in the world of academia. We are all here to learn and better ourselves. I presume none of us here are in charge of Admissions, so it is not our job to say that the perceived poor grammar of our classmates should preclude their acceptance to this program. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the actual Admissions department. I'm sure they'd love to hear these complaints coming from those who have already benefited from such "low" admission requirements.

Hey Buck,
I would have recommended staying in so that you could learn the material. I guarantee that if you're having a rough time with the prereq, that some of these other courses will be much more intensive if you don't have that background knowledge.

The FIN701 exams have a lot of the same questions as the BADM701 course, and I have pulled out my books while studying for this course.

If you're here for a good GPA, then of course I get it, I want to keep my 4.0 also :) but I strongly recommend you still trying to get through the text books for the course. Or take the other P/NP refreshers they offer.

I don't take it personally. In terms of difficulty, I rate both my BBA and my MBA below my high school. I'm sure we've all seen some of the issues you've mentioned previously, but it just didn't come off well earlier. If you are now clarifying your intent was to critique the program itself, I'm sure we could all agree this program and many others have issues. So, that I understand.

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If you don't think this forum should be for posing questions or venting frustrations about the program, please leave. Why is it not appropriate to pose questions and raise concerns about the LSUS MBA program on the LSUS MBA program forum?

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I thought this forum was a place to discuss courses, strategy, professors, and MBA subject matter NOT admission requirements, making discriminatory statements or illuminating perceived flaws in other students. I think think jwilliams339 was correct in stating that if you have a problem with the "low" admission" standards here, take it up with LSUS Admissions. By posting your critiques here you are offending many students, who are just trying to learn and better themselves. Additionally, its not only unfair but its also discriminatory to state that most grammatical errors come from students from two local historically black schools. The person who posted that proceeded to say that he knows this because of group members he's been paired up with, were from those schools, and they had poor communication skills. So based on few students, he felt as if he could generalize and stereotype an entire demographic/race. If you don't have a problem with that then you should leave this group. Can't we just try to keep criticism of other students and races out of this forum? Theres no need for that, especially with all the experience and talented indivduals in here.

All of you are ruining this message board with your bickering over this nonsense. If something "hurts your feelings" you can either get over it or stop posting here. Simple as that. For those of you that are new here, get on par with everyone else and contribute or please leave. I get sick and tired of seeing shite unrelated to the program on here. Many of us in the same courses use this as a way of communication and it's being disrupted because of how you feel. That's all fine and dandy, but find somewhere else or start another discussion about it.

The concerns about admissions and program quality have been talked about on this forum for quite a while now - way before we talked about what we've seen in our individual classes. We've discussed almost all aspects of this program, good and bad. I see no issue with talking about admissions. We're just having a conversation. I think its ridiculous to say that were offending many students because were wondering if LSUS employs low admissions standards to draw more student. I don't even think the admissions have changed much since many of us have been on here. Heck one reason I chose this school was because I didn't need the GMAT. However, I am sometimes left scratching my head wondering how seriously people take the program after seeing things that happen in my classes. So...it makes me wonder if less serious people are choosing this program for the same reasons I did - because I knew they would accept me.

I'm in the military and I hear all the time how easy the military is becoming and how the new generation is not being trained hard enough. I am part of that new generation and I agree with the old guys - we aren't trained hard enough and you can see the affects of it. Same concept with LSUS. I'm not criticizing an individual I'm simply questioning whether admissions affect program quality.

For the issue of race and stereotyping. I agree, it has absolutely no place here.

I do think this thing is getting blown way out of proportion. But if I have a concern about the program I'm going to see if others feel the same way and I'm going to do so on this forum. I refuse to let overly-sensitive people who rush to negative judgment stop me from voicing my concerns if my concerns are valid and are not discriminatory or prejudicial in any way - which mine absolutely are not.

I have not taken MADM 752 but I have heard from others that it can be difficult, hopefully those mind tap quizzes have been removed.

I took MADM 720 during summer AP2 and it is a pretty easy, straightforward class. It mostly involves forum posts, short personal experience writings, and a pretty simple quiz every week, and a final paper. Williams was also a very friendly and laid back instructor.

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It mostly involves forum posts, short personal experience writings, and a pretty simple quiz every week, and a final paper. Williams was also a very friendly and laid back instructor.

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Thanks Winchester! Any proctoring for those quizzes in the summer session?

Has anyone taken more than 2 classes in any of the sessions? If so what pairings would you recommend

I paired MADM 715 with FIN 730 and ACCT 701 with MADM 701. Both are manageable. In hindsight, I'd say MADM 715, ACCT 701 and any of the FIN classes would've been best to double up with for me personally. They were the least deadline intensive. Everyone is different though... depends on your background and preferred learning style. I hear ISDS 705 is a good one to double but haven't had it yet so can't confirm.