Did the WGU MBA help you move up

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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 wouldn't say the difference is tremendous; at the end of the day their both offering "online education." The only thing a top program has is their name recognition, and perhaps accreditation. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln offers an MBA online, so for an individual from Nebraska they can still pursue an online degree locally.

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

Do you have experience with HR checking to see if an individual's school required the GRE? As I was telling Kittenmittens a while back, my cousin works for a huge health insurance company based in San Antonio, with an MBA from Strayer University (No GRE was taken), and is currently making over 150k a year, while her co-workers with MBA's from state and private universities are making way-less.