Okay, for Managerial Economics I made a (drum roll please)…90.05. Talk about just barely getting that “A”! My final project only garnered a score of 87% for not being as clearly organized as it could have been which I’m not sure I agree with but hey, an “A” is an “A” right? Short of having itemized categories…(muttering under breath)…but I digress. It’s not like my GPA took a hit anyway.
So okay, here I am exactly 50% complete and still with a 4.0. Not bad, but then I haven’t taken the real bear classes yet, Managerial Finance and Managerial Accounting, the last 2 classes of my core requirement before I get into the concentration areas. I’ve been told that Finance is much tougher than Accounting, but then I’ve been told that Managerial Economics was almost a blow off class because it is primarily a decision making class. Right, a decision making class with oodles of Algebra. That just goes to show that you can’t always take what you hear to heart, um, except for this blog of course, right?
So in retrospect I believe that Managerial Economics is certainly a valuable class that teaches valuable skills, however should you attempt an MBA from Ashford University be prepared for a full bore graduate level Economics class complete with Calculus, Algebra and some Statistics thrown in for good measure. Don’t expect some candy coated “put the round peg in the round hole” type of class where the concepts and answers are readily apparent to anyone who actually read the assignment. Granted, I couldn’t give the class as much attention as I would have liked what with being between houses, selling a house and buying a new house but I did put a lot of effort into it. Definitely more so than I had to on my undergraduate stuff because most of this stuff was brand new to me and most of this stuff became fairly math involved. But hey, if I can do it any single one of you can do it. Math has never been my strong point but I survived.
Now I can relax.