MBA Students Get Thrown Off Course by Shift to Online Learning
While many lamented the loss of in-person classes, almost 6 in 10 MBA students would consider some permanent shift to coursework online, survey shows.
A masked student studies outside the closed Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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The coronavirus pandemic led to an extraordinary and almost overnight shift to online learning at MBA programs. Because of the overwhelming impact on business school education, this year Bloomberg Businessweek chose not to rank MBA programs. Instead, we surveyed 3,532 first- and second-year students from 95 schools around the world to understand what was working in the now-online programs—and where students felt shortchanged.
Half of all students would be willing to see at least 20% of their coursework go online in exchange for some level of tuition discount. Students at more expensive schools were less likely to say that their online education was worth the tuition.