Patten MBA Review

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Based on the lack of information on the MBA from Patten I decided to give it a shot and will keep my progress here. 

Factors to Patten as my choice:
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Fast start date -Only had to wait a week to start (WGU would have been 45 days in my case)
Thought it was one project and one exam per course (more later)
Low cost of 2080/4 months
RA

Against
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Little to no reputation (or even bad)
no FA
not AACSB accredited

Again, I was torn between Patten, WGU and Amberton. I chose Patten for above positive factors, although with some trepidation. But for the good of the forum I thought I would try it. 

You can access courses before you start and read the material, assignments, and flash cards. You CAN NOT access projects, pre finals, or post finals prior to being officially enrolled in each course. 

I took the week before my start date to read the information and study the lessons. I have have worked for 25 years and have quite a bit of business background so the first course was easy and I aced the initial assessment without much effort. 

Once my course actually started I thought all I had to do was to finish the project and take the final to move on but...... NO. You HAVE to complete Exercises in units 2,4, and 6 prior to having access to the final. These consist of discussion board type posts that you self grade and a 3 page paper for each unit (3 papers total for each course). I don't mind writing but based on the forum that is not what I was expecting and it will delay progress (factoring in grading time) to a point that I can't see anyone finishing in 4 months. You would be looking at a total of (36) 3 page papers, 17 projects and 9 final exams. No way this would be doable for most people in 4 months. 

I don't know if I will continue this or withdraw and wait on WGU. If I stay I will update progress here.