Capella University - MBA

You get what you put into it

By: Anonymous (Graduate) on August 8, 2009

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I think online schools should have much more media-rich content. Much of the work at Capella was reading textbook material, interacting with my classmates in newsgroup-like threaded discussions, and weekly projects.  

Traditional brick-and-mortar colleges provide textbooks, some class interaction, and weekly projects.  You also get a lecture from the instructor.  Capella provides a written lecture in PDF format every week; some courses have a video.

In the MBA programs I was able to take advantage of their MBA Coaching service at no additional cost.  Over the course of my degree program I met with my coach quarterly to discuss my professional & personal goals.  For this service, I give Capella a gold star.  

The Career Center team was also excellent.  They were responsive and knowledgeable.  They provided seminars on how to use social networking tools in the job hunt, interviewing skills, and a few other topics.  The Career Center also helped to map out a personalized career search strategy with me.  Much better than my counselors from the brick-and-mortar schools I have attended.

I have attended a few online courses from other colleges.  In my time at Capella, I never had a day of system downtime.  In my experience, they manage their technology operations well.

They are accredited and sponsored by some major employers. I learned about their corporate alliances program because my employer was one of them - which gave me a tuition discount!  

During my time there I also built a number of valuable professional relationships with staff and classmates.  I keep in frequent contact with about a dozen people.  We help each other solve business problems in the real-world.  Whether it is Marketing, Finance, or Human Resources, I know someone who is an expert in their field & willing to help me out because we attended Capella together.

If I choose to go for my Doctorate degree, I would definitely choose Capella again.   

But with all these positive remarks, I have to say that the degree is only as good as the effort you put into it.  If you go above-and-beyond, use all the resources that Capella offers, go out of the way to form relationships with your classmates, and study hard then you will get a lot of value from attending Capella.