Walden University - MBA

Walden MBA is Competitive

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on November 21, 2008

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I would have to flat out disagree with the last person's assessment of the Walden MBA program.  Most of his issues seemed to be with the University--not the program.

I have two more courses before I complete my MBA in Project Management and have had only one professor that just gave me an "A" regardless of what I submitted. In my Business Finance course, I had the best professor (Dr. Jong Yi) that spent upwards of two hours *every week* explaining to me the lessons for that week because I had trouble.  I received an "A" in that course as I have in all my courses so far, but I worked *very* hard to do so. 

Listen, there are people who will throw together an assignment and not care how it comes out. Some people cheat and plagerize.  I did thorough research, worked in teams, and worked with my professors to get through each course (2-eight week courses per semester). That is why I thought I got a lot out of it.  The one course that I got the most out of was a Marketing class where we fought a lot due to conflicting ideas regarding our team assignment.  But let's face it--isn't that what the work place going to be like anyway?

I gave Walden University a "9" overall because I have enjoyed my experience. Plan on getting the "Walden U" shirts, coffee mugs and stickers for my cars.  I found the reading materials, course texts, articles, etc. top-notch and updated to reflect current trends.  The PowerPoint presentations with the live videos were refreshing and took the place of the instructor lectures.  Never had any measurable issue with support and I have been able to work on my school work while traveling numerous times for work and while on vacation at Disney World (not something I loved to do--I had to do it!).  How else can you do that and attend a brick and mortar?  Very impressed with the use of technology--definately got exposed to technologies I hadn't previously known about. 

It would have been ideal to attend an accredited school locally such as Georgia State, Emory or Kennesaw State here in Atlanta, but let's face it. Unless, I leased a private helicopter, how would I be able to make the weeknight courses with all our traffic?  And Weekends? I am a parent, those are for piano lessons, laundry and karate.  An at-home program works just fine for me.  I schedule the time, and I control my learning.  I also like the principle of social change that is the undercurrent of each course.  The school is accredited and I know people who have gotten MBA's from Emory who many have the fancy paper, but still don't have a clue in the work place.  

So like everything else, your experience at Walden will be what you make of it.  It is not perfect and your mileage will vary.  But please know there are way more people that love the school than hate it.