{"id":20862,"date":"2013-09-28T04:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=20862"},"modified":"2013-09-27T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T19:02:50","slug":"wharton-school-offers-free-online-mba-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wharton-school-offers-free-online-mba-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Wharton School Offers Free Online MBA Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you're interested in previewing first-year MBA material, or just looking to get up-to-date with the fundamentals of business and management, the new MOOCS, or massive open online courses, offered by University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School<\/strong> should fit the bill.<\/p>\n

Announced earlier this month, the Wharton MBA Foundation Series<\/em><\/a> in Coursera's course catalog offers four classes taught by Wharton faculty. There's no cost to take any of these courses, unless you wish to receive a verified electronic certificate for $49 indicating you've mastered the course requirements---something to keep in mind if you want to put it on your resume.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time that a business school has bundled a collection of MOOCs together in this fashion,\u201d Don Huesman<\/strong>, managing director of the innovation group at Wharton, tells Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re taking our core required classes in the MBA program, with the same instructors, to provide those same core concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four new courses are:<\/p>\n

1. An Introduction to Financial Accounting<\/em>, taught by Brian J Bushee. Began Sept 16th 2013 (10 weeks long)<\/p>\n

2. An Introduction to Operations Management<\/em>, taught by Christian Terwiesch. Begins Sept 30th 2013 (8 weeks long)<\/p>\n

3. An Introduction to Marketing<\/em>, taught by David Bell, Peter Fader and Barbara E. Kahn. Begins Oct 14th 2013 (9 weeks long)<\/p>\n

4. An Introduction to Corporate Finance<\/em>, taught by Franklin Allen. Begins Oct 28th 2013 (6 weeks long)<\/p>\n

Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> notes that along with five existing electives, which include courses on sports business<\/a> and health care, the new offerings make it possible to learn much of what students in Wharton\u2019s full-time MBA program learn. All nine courses will likely attract students from around the world.<\/p>\n

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