re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

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I just got an email from the MBA program telling me I need to take a 35 question Proctorio proctored end of program exam as part of their AACSB accreditation. While this is not a "test" as they put it (wont impact GPA, graduation or anything) I wonder what the content will be like. Hoping its not ISDS705 heavy! Anyone else get this email?

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Yeah, I just got that too.

Exactly why do I have to take a proctored exam that isn't graded and doesn't affect my GPA or graduation status?

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I just got an email from the MBA program telling me I need to take a 35 question Proctorio proctored end of program exam as part of their AACSB accreditation. While this is not a "test" as they put it (wont impact GPA, graduation or anything) I wonder what the content will be like. Hoping its not ISDS705 heavy! Anyone else get this email?

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Although I'm well over 20 years into my career, I just finished my undergrad in Business a couple of years ago (also from an AACSB school) -- so my experience there may have some bearing. In that program, everyone had a Capstone class as the final class before graduation. The last assignment in that final class was to take an external assessment, quite possibly the same as you are being asked to take. In LSUS it is not part of any one class (probably because we don't have a specified final class at the end of our program) and has ZERO bearing. With my previous school, you might as well say it had no bearing. I think it accounted for < 0.5% of our grade in that final class... but they wanted us to take it.

The test was all-encompassing and gave results at the end showing your percentile ranking compared to students finishing Bachelors in Business degrees as well as MBAs. I believe it also showed how the school matches up.

I was apprehensive about taking it because, well, I didn't want to realize that I didn't learn crap compared to other business students or feel like my school didn't teach me anything. I briefly considered not taking the test since I was going to get an A whether I took it or not... BUT it was interesting to see how I stacked up. It helped give me a better appreciation for what I got out of my undergrad degree program since I ranked very high among other BBAs and even scored well among MBAs.

We occasionally debate on this board as to the depth of our LSUS education compared to other business schools. Some say that, at a fraction of the cost, we get the same education without the name recognition of "better" schools. Some say LSUS is just sub-standard education compared to "better" schools. This test may be your one chance to answer those questions for yourself. If you bomb the test, who else is gonna see??? Perhaps it puts heat on LSUS to improve. If you do well, you reaffirm to yourself that you made a good decision in choosing LSUS.

Anyway, there are reasons to take it and reasons to pass it by... just wanted to pass on my somewhat recent experience (if it is, in fact, the same assessment).