New WGU MS in Management and Leadership

[ryoder]

I disagree. I think the MBA is a MS lite. Here is why. Lets say you want to teach business courses at a community college. At a minimum you need to have a masters in the area (MBA works) but also six graduate courses in a specialization such as research methods, marketing, management, finance etc. A MBA will never give you that. To me, the MBA is almost like a liberal arts general studies degree for business. You get a sampling of courses but never get beyond "intro" level in anything. The MBA was initially designed for professionals with bachelors degrees in engineering, etc. to get a bit of a business education so that they know what they are doing when moving into upper management. It was not designed to produce scholars or specialists.

So if you really want to learn economics, get a MS in economics, not a MBA.

Thanks for sharing, but I never understood this trend of creating MBA-lites. My stomach literally turns when I see a degree program with "leadership" in the title.