Where's the best place to get an MBA (off campus or distance, of course)???

[ryoder]

About the networking aspect. Of course networking is always good, but I have a few coworkers in brick and mortar MBA programs and they are not really networking with their cohorts. The reason is that the MBA is multi-disciplinary. You will have recent college grads in your MBA classes, computer programmers, construction managers, retail managers, real estate agents, stay at home moms, sales people, unemployed people, you name it. You may not find a single person in your class that is even working in the same industry as you. It is the new liberal arts degree or undeclared major for those who want to learn more about business and management. I understand that the marketing around the MBA tries to make people feel like the networking is so important. This is because it is intangible and unquantifiable.
Ask anyone who completed a B&M MBA about the program and the working in groups part will probably be their least cherished aspect. They will usually have horror stories about their cohorts as well.

Don't get me wrong, its not all bad, but I just wanted to present the other side of the coin.