Did the WGU MBA help you move up

[Yanji]

The majority only have online programs due to the extra financial resources it provides, so that they don't have to pinch more money from their "On site" students, as a means keep their brick and mortar campuses afloat. School's such as Southern New Hampshire University and Peru State College have basically been saved from closing due to its online division's.

There is a tremendous difference between schools in rural Nebraska offering online programs to keep the doors open and highly ranked MBA programs offering online alternatives to their full-time programs. There's very few quality part-time MBA programs in the country, and they're pretty much all in either LA, Chicago or the East Coast, so for people in the rest of the country or perhaps Americans working abroad, a good online program could be exactly what they and their employer are looking for. Just how much respect would an MBA do you think an unranked in-state MBA would get from an educational administrator at a research university, regardless of the mode of delivery?

I think if online education is a problem, attending a brick & mortar school within your state maybe the best way to alleviate that problem. There are so many state schools nowadays that are offering MBA's; many with no GRE requirement. No one will question if you attended school online, I don't think.

If avoiding bias is the goal, attending an MBA program without a GMAT/GRE requirement is not the way to go.