re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

So it's based on your opinion and the VP opinions.
And ultimately that's how all hiring works (excluding mandated rules, usually for public companies etc.)

Based on my hiring experience, as well as acquaintances from the C-Suite down to mid-management across various industries and locales, the truth is - "it depends".

I've seen organizations use regional bias (e.g. South east company look at South east schools), network bias (grad from x school hire alumni from x school), as well as branding bias (tech role look at berkley, stanford MBAs etc) or predictably big name/top tier (Kellogg, Harvard etc).

It boils down to :
a) what do you want from the degree (curriculum, price, reputation etc.)
b) where do you plan to utilize the degree (region, industry etc.)
c) what else you bring to the table. (is the MBA the crux of your personal brand, one more pre-screening "check mark", or a "tie breaker").

I know VPs and senior executives that don't have MBAs, as well as MBA grads that I wouldn't trust with a lemonade stand. It's no different than other credentials in terms of hiring utilization

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y review of Imran Khan (MKT 701). 2 Activities @ 25 points each - Usually 2-3 questions reviewing material covered in book/lecture. 1 Case Analysis @ 50 points - In-depth review of a company (provided); 4 questions to answers with sub-headings 6 weekly Exams @ 50 points each - 25 questions @ 30 minutes (listen to and take notes during the lectures) 1 Final Exam @ 75 points - covers material learned throughout the course; he does a Zoom session before the final and will tell you what to review for the exam. 1 Extra credit @ 25 points - greatly appreciative of; detailed writing - very much like a case study.

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Thanks so much for this. Other reviews (none with Khan) had me worried that I picked the toughest class my first semester .

Agreed Baroqen

I know a few people have been asking about classes, teachers etc, and I am only 3 classes in, so take this for what it is worth.

ISDS 705 - James Gibbs - Watch some videos, follow along in excel and take a weekly test that was not proctored in any way. Easiest class I have had yet, and from what I have read, easiest course in the program, I should have doubled up.

MADM 701 - Felicia Williams - Was the first class I took, after being out of school for 15 years, and it required a lot of reading, a weekly paper, weekly forum post and a reply. The closed book tests were done through Proctorio. For the first class in the program, I was not really prepared to put in the amount of hours required, so I got off to a bit of a slow start. Be sure to read AND FOLLOW the grading rubrics for both the forum discussion and the weekly papers.

Fin 701 - Lynn Kendall - I think this may have been her first time teaching this course here. The weekly lecture material was presented in a PDF that had boxes with info in it, and the same info was repeated below with some additional info. She allows a half page formula sheet for the weekly quizzes which are broken up between theory questions and equations to be solved. There is also a weekly discussion post required as well as responding to a classmates post. Many of the practice questions for each week had errors, so that made things a little more difficult when you can not arrive at the same answer as is shown for the problem solution. The final is comprehensive.

Now on to Econ 705 with Fadi Fawaz which there does not seem to be a lot of info on either.

PresJohnTyler,

They are pretty straight forward i.e.
E(R)=Rf+beta(MRP)is typical, but there are a lot of them in each chapter, and you will not know which ones are needed for each weekly test.

I think the most I had on a sheet was 24 for one of the weeks. Nothing hard, all straight pretty straight forward, and you will just need to plug those in correctly from the question as all the needed info is there. You may need one equation to figure out what the MRP is to plug into another equation, but the info is all there.

The theory question are based on you applying the gist of the material to a multiple choice. Those seemed to be what tripped up a lot of people, but don't over think the questions.

FYI, I did find there is an LSUS MBA Facebook page.

Thanks reconminister.
How was the workload?

yes. Closed book. 35 minutes.
Last week, yes, but open book. print media only. 1 hr. But believe me open book has no meaning. Read it, mug up, scroll or search. no matter how many printout you keep, none of them will work.

you have to learn concept.

I did the same. Dropped Lind for ACCT 701.