Beyond Excelsior

[SimonTam]

I agree with Jennifer. A regionally accredited degree is a regionally accredited degree. However, a particular MBA program, or a concentration in that program, will have some prerequisite requirements that may or may not be met by your undergraduate degree. In that case, there may be some courses that you would have to take in addition to your MBA program courses. That is not to say that you wouldn't be accepted. You can be accepted to a MBA program and the adviser will tell you if there are any additional courses that you need to take to complete the MBA. In other words, if the MBA program is 42 credit hours, but the adviser says you need three additional prerequisite courses, your MBA degree will be 51 credit hours. For example, assume you obtain a bachelor's degree in general business from Excelsior and then decided to pursue a MBA with a concentration in accounting. The requirements for the accounting concentration state that you must have intermediate accounting, business law and a few other courses. The school will probably accept you into the MBA program, but will require that you take the additional courses before starting any of the courses in the concentration.

BTW, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Excelsior earlier this year. I was accepted at Upper Iowa University into the MBA program with an accounting concentration. There were no problems with 50% of my degree being obtained through testing. In fact, because I had a 3.3 GPA, I did not have to take the GMAT. The GPA was obtained from the actual courses that I took at LSU and Adams State.