That is unfortunate. I don't know about liberal arts degrees at all institutions, but my undergraduate degree was at a liberal arts institution. It was a heck of a lot more rigorous than this near-fraudulent MBA I just earned at LSUS which is basically a junior college level academic challenge or worse. Almost anyone can get in at LSUS, and almost anyone can get a 4.0 with a little effort and good time management.

In my liberal arts undergraduate institution, I was challenged in every class. I was exposed to and learned a great deal that helps me understand the world and people such as history, psychology, biology, chemistry, literature, philosophy, advanced mathematics, law, politics, globalization, cultures, logic, and religion. I learned how to read well, write well, work through issues in discussions and debate, and negotiate well. I developed keen critical thinking skills that continue to serve me well today. It was and continues to be extremely valuable to me as a person, business executive, and leader of people. The MBA at LSUS is so far below it, it is comical. But, hey, you got your letters and everyone thinks you know what you are doing in business. But, you really just figured out how to navigate through a bunch of busy work, learned a little about accounting and economics because you had an actual teacher in those classes, figured out how to BS your way through some online discussion posts and maybe 2 papers, did well-enough on silly test questions, endured hoop-jump professors who have never had a real job in the business world, and did a strategy canvas if you were lucky- and even then you only did one or two sections yourself. Perhaps the most valuable things learned at LSUS are a few Excel functions, how to use Zoom, and the search function in Acrobat. Congratulations.

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Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:12 pm to BusinessKnight

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When I see "Liberal Arts" on a degree, I don't take it seriously.

That is unfortunate. I don't know about liberal arts degrees at all institutions, but my undergraduate degree was at a liberal arts institution. It was a heck of a lot more rigorous than this near-fraudulent MBA I just earned at LSUS which is basically a junior college level academic challenge or worse. Almost anyone can get in at LSUS, and almost anyone can get a 4.0 with a little effort and good time management.

In my liberal arts undergraduate institution, I was challenged in every class. I was exposed to and learned a great deal that helps me understand the world and people such as history, psychology, biology, chemistry, literature, philosophy, advanced mathematics, law, politics, globalization, cultures, logic, and religion. I learned how to read well, write well, work through issues in discussions and debate, and negotiate well. I developed keen critical thinking skills that continue to serve me well today. It was and continues to be extremely valuable to me as a person, business executive, and leader of people. The MBA at LSUS is so far below it, it is comical. But, hey, you got your letters and everyone thinks you know what you are doing in business. But, you really just figured out how to navigate through a bunch of busy work, learned a little about accounting and economics because you had an actual teacher in those classes, figured out how to BS your way through some online discussion posts and maybe 2 papers, did well-enough on silly test questions, endured hoop-jump professors who have never had a real job in the business world, and did a strategy canvas if you were lucky- and even then you only did one or two sections yourself. Perhaps the most valuable things learned at LSUS are a few Excel functions, how to use Zoom, and the search function in Acrobat. Congratulations.

BusinessKnight,
Congratulations is actually in order to you as you appear to have taken your academia seriously and I applaud you for that. Most people who take Lib Arts are what I described, but you are an exception to the rule. Liberal Arts is exactly what you described, a wide breadth of various educational experiences. I assume that you picked most of your courses and you picked well and you actually took away what the collegiate experience is all about. I am in banking and most interns/recent graduates that are hired at my bank that are Lib Arts majors don't have the business/financial exposure that is needed in our world. we spend more time explaining concepts that a grad with a BSBA would already know, in theory at least.

Granted, the LSUS MBA leaves much to be desired. Unfortunately most of us didn't realize that until we are in the program. So it's either stick it out knowing the short-comings and get the most education out of it as we can or transfer out to a different institution. I would say that in my 3 classes so far I have learned quite a bit, albeit on my own and not from LSUS.

As with anything that you do, you get out of it what you put into it. With your Lib Arts undergrad, you got more out of it than most others because of your own accord. Kudos to you for that. And I plan on getting as much as I can out of this program to make it worth it.

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