Concurrently, criticism of management education has also increased as leaders in the field questioned the value of teaching functional skills to MBA students who have little work experience (Mintzberg, 2004). Management educators have been urged to target practicing managers with sufficient work experience and admit them on the basis of work performance (Gosling & Mintzberg, 2004). In line with such criticisms, there has been a call for a complete rethinking of the MBA (Bubna-Litc & Benn, 2003).
Online MBA
As MBA programs have increased in number, so have their critiques. Even before the expansion to web-based programs, graduate business education represented a significant sector within post-secondary education, conferring almost 25% of all Master‟s degrees by the late 1990‟s (Boyd & Halfond, 2001). From 2001 to 2003, the number of online graduate degree programs had increased from 48 to 246, with 41 programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (Kyle & Festervand, 2005).
Concurrently, criticism of management education has also increased as leaders in the field questioned the value of teaching functional skills to MBA students who have little work experience (Mintzberg, 2004). Management educators have been urged to target practicing managers with sufficient work experience and admit them on the basis of work performance (Gosling & Mintzberg, 2004). In line with such criticisms, there has been a call for a complete rethinking of the MBA (Bubna-Litc & Benn, 2003).
Concurrently, criticism of management education has also increased as leaders in the field questioned the value of teaching functional skills to MBA students who have little work experience (Mintzberg, 2004). Management educators have been urged to target practicing managers with sufficient work experience and admit them on the basis of work performance (Gosling & Mintzberg, 2004). In line with such criticisms, there has been a call for a complete rethinking of the MBA (Bubna-Litc & Benn, 2003).
