re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

I'll give you my honest review on Khan. I ended his class with a high B and I earned every single point.

He is the best and the worst teacher I've had in this program so far and I suspect that will be the case for a while. He put a TON of effort into the class and I truly learned so much (knowing nothing about Marketing prior). He does a great job of applying the course content to businesses which helps you understand the concepts as opposed to the definition. However, he is a major narcissist. He would continuously defend questions where 20-30% of the class got the answer right by saying things like "I just don't understand why there was confusion, the answer was pretty obvious". He makes you feel as if YOU are the problem and will NEVER admit that he did anything wrong. He will curve tests where the average was in the 60's and make his "curve" sound like a charity event where he's doing something he shouldn't be doing. Truthfully, everything he did felt like a sham - he made sure to tell you his papers were "only" a five-page maximum because he doesn't believe people should be writing 10-20 page papers. However, to fit all of the nonsense and detail into the research papers, I would use 11-point font with narrow margins which in normal, APA format would have been 12+ page papers.

The textbook is completely worthless in that class - don't even use it if you take it. You need to focus for 1-1.5 hours on his very boring lectures and take serious notes that need to be studied with the concepts understood. Memorizing anything is worthless in that class because the test questions are based around hypothetical business situations where you need to apply your understanding of the concept to answer the question. I spent roughly 10-15 hours per week on that class and on the three weeks that there were papers, easily 25-30+. If I'm not making his tests sound bad enough, the "case" quiz and "final" was open-book and the average for the case quiz was a 68. Having every piece of information in front of you doesn't even help with the tests.

If I had to do it over, I probably would trade in the knowledge I learned for my sanity over those seven weeks. If I got lucky with AC's (I had a nit-picker) I would have ended with an A, so YMMV depending on the AC you're assigned. I truthfully can't recommend him, but I did learn a lot. I stressed out from the first test to the time I hit the submit button on the final because I felt like I was going to end up with a C. The only reason I ended up with a high B was because of a 10-point extra credit and 8 point "course completion curve" that he "gave" students. Without the 26/400 "curve" points (extra credit included), I had a very low B. Good luck if you decide to go with him.