{"id":5474,"date":"2010-12-13T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2010-12-13T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:33:29","slug":"would-you-get-an-mba-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/would-you-get-an-mba-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Get an MBA on Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month The London School of Business and Finance (not to be confused with London Business School) made waves by announcing students can now earn an MBA on Facebook. The course is free, to an extent\u2014 students have to pay if they want to be granted a degree \u2014 and over the past month the more than 30,000 students have reportedly enrolled<\/a> in the program. What gives? Is this a scam, or has LSBF gotten the jump on all other business schools by making use of social media platforms to deliver a graduate management education?<\/p>\n

We hesitate to call it a scam, but we think that those who complete the course and pay for the degree \u2014 we are willing to bet that only a tiny fraction of those first 30,000 students will do so \u2014 will be disappointed by the weight that their LSBF Facebook MBA carries in the real world, for the same reasons that U. of Phoenix and Kaplan University grads are often disappointed<\/a> by how far their degrees carry them.<\/p>\n

So, at the end of the day, we\u2019re willing to wager that this does not represent the tip of a new iceberg in online education. It is, however, an easy way for anyone \u2014 including prospective MBAs, young professionals, and small-business owners \u2014 to learn some managerial basics without spending a dime. In this way, services such as the Facebook MBA, MIT\u2019s OpenCourseWare, and the Khan Academy truly are changing the game. It\u2019s hard to see any of these ever delivering the prestige and connections that a top-tier degree provides, but if knowledge and know-how are truly what you want, you could do worse than to browse their online lessons.<\/p>\n

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