ERIC Number: EJ1057572
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1942-2504
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Innovation in Business Education: Developing a High Quality Online MBA
Roe, C. William; Toma, Alfred G.; Yallapragada, RamMohan R.
American Journal of Business Education, v8 n2 p169-176 2015
Online degree programs were probably pioneered by for-profit universities such as University of Phoenix. Many online degree programs were initially considered low quality academic programs compared to traditional programs. Therefore, many public and private universities were slow to adopt the online programs. However, gradually more and more "non-traditional" students began to enter schools. Employees already holding jobs began to seek to better their qualifications by coming back to school while still working. For both these groups, online degree programs offered an opportunity to go to school while still employed. Consequently, many schools offering traditional MBA programs are forced to offer online MBA programs to meet the demand and to beat the competing schools. In keeping up with the trend, Arkansas State University launched a high quality online MBA program that parallels the best of the ongoing online MBA programs. This MBA program has been ranked number 1 in faculty credentials and training and in the top 15 in all categories among all online MBA programs by "U. S. News and World Report" for three consecutive years. This paper presents how the Graduate Faculty of Arkansas State's College of Business developed its high quality online MBA and how the program operates with revenue sharing for the College of Business.
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Program Development, Educational Quality, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Nontraditional Students, College Programs, Program Descriptions, Educational Practices, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Innovation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Arkansas
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