I'm looking for a good school that offers an MBA in Finance.

I have looked at Bellevue University, NorthCentral, Grand Canyon, and Morehead State University.   What I like about NorthCenral University is that they have 12 week semesters and I have the option of studying at pace or completing it earier depending on my work schedule.   I would like to get some feedback from members here.

I would only go with a program that is AACSB accredited. 

What programs do you recommend for under 20K that has at least 15 to 18 units of finance?   I'm looking to 10 to 12 week semesters that I can focus on 4 classes per year.  Preferably 36-39 units.

I don't know of any MBAs that meet those requirements.  However, another option you have is to get an MS in Finance.  You can get the degree in about half as much time as an MBA.  There are lots of options, but here is one I found from a Google search:

 http://www.cob.umd.umich.edu/1580/ 

Here's another MS in Finance option. I don't know how much it costs, but I do know that Northeastern can be an expensive school.

http://www.elearners.com/online-degree/11140/Master/MS/Master-of-Science-Finance/Northeastern-University/?cm_sp=Finance-_-Master-_-11140%20NEU:Master%20of%20Science%20in%20Finance-3&

We have a lot of them in our database, and from a pretty varied selection of schools:

http://www.elearners.com/online-degrees/master/finance.htm

What's your actual goal here?  What do you want to do that you need an MBA in Finance to accomplish?  Knowing that will help narrow things down, such as helping figure out whether AACSB is really all that important in your case.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

Some schools even offer online joint MBA/ MS in Finance degrees so you get 2 degrees when you graduate.  One school I know that does this is Indiana University, but the tuition is going to be $75,000 and you will have to travel to their campus twice.  If you don't plan on goign into management, then I would do the MS in Finance since it is 1 year shorter.

I was looking at Indiana and Michigan's MS in Finance for around 30K.  I do not know if those schools will provide a higher ROI when I am 44 years of age and looking for slight career change from Insurance to Finance.  I would like to do Financial or Risk Analyst and even teach part time at Jr. Colleges and other schools that will accept master's degree.  I was also looking at AMU, UIU, and Bellevue MBA in Finance.

If yu want to teach, then you will definitely need an AACSB degree.  AMU nd Bellevue ae not AACSB accredited. 

donald11:

If yu want to teach, then you will definitely need an AACSB degree.

For a tenure track position, that's usually true.  However, for adjunct positions, especially at the junior colleges that the poster mentioned interest him, that's not true at all.  Remember that Finance and Accounting are much harder subjects for schools to find qualified instructors than Management, Marketing, or even Economics are.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

kemposun:

I was looking at Indiana and Michigan's MS in Finance for around 30K.  I do not know if those schools will provide a higher ROI when I am 44 years of age and looking for slight career change from Insurance to Finance.

Sounds like you're already more or less in the industry, so you can do the math on whether the likely boost in income would make the effort and expense of a Finance degree worth it.

You may also want to consider Northeastern University, which has both an MS in Finance and an MBA in Finance, and the University of Massachusetts Online, which has an MBA in Finance.  Not sure about tuition rates, but I doubt they're more than $30,000 (which I find is a lot, personally).

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

donald11:

If yu want to teach, then you will definitely need an AACSB degree.  AMU nd Bellevue ae not AACSB accredited. 

 I agree that having an AACSB degree is not entirely the case.  When I was looking at the state colleges for my state I agree that most of the full-time positions require the Ph.D or DBA to be from an AACSB degree. I am not looking for full-time work, but teaching at local community colleges and other online schools.  I have reviewed the requirements and faculty webpages from many schools and noticed most were not from AACSB programs.

On talking with the local dean and other schools they mentioned having a graduate degree was required, but they will look at the background of the prospective instructor. In my case, I want to teach in the same field that I have worked the last 20 years. I want the option to switch to finance and risk analyst type of positions within the same industry, but also have the possibility to get into management with my current employer. 

when I emailed the VP of our company of 8000+ employees regarding the schools I want to attend, I was given the following response:

 "Unless you're degree is from U of Pennsylvania (Wharton) or Stanford or Northwestern (Kellogg) and the like, I don't know that a name buys you much." 

He mentioned any of the schools I showed him were fine as long as I can use the skills gained from the MBA program. I really impressed from talking with the people at American Public University and Bellevue University.  I like APU because they have a large selection of classes and everyone I have spoken with has been great, as well as talking with other people who attended the program.  

I am currently studying for the GMAT and planning on taking the test in January. Depending on how I score on the GMAT will determine how much I want to spend and what school I want to attend.  I would like to keep my expenses under 20-25K if possible and prefer MBA in Finance.

APU will be tough to beat from a price point thus your ROI will likely be higher. I agree that a "name" school usually only gets so far and even then when it's from a known, reputable and prestigious program.  Often though this can be regional in nature.  For example, a grad from Texas A&M would like fare better in Texas than a grad from the U of Penn (Wharton) if for no other reason than an almost rabidly loyal alumni association.

Bellevue is a great school from my experience because of the people that work there and programs they offer.  I've enjoyed my MS experience thus far for the most part.  And if it helps, they are IACBE accredited http://www.iacbe.org/ which is the stepbrother to the ACBSP and AACSB.  They are from what I gather the only business accreditation who are international in focus and scope and they're recognized by the CHEA as being a program accrediting agency.  So ifyou ever need that "nationally accredited business program" check box filled, Bellevue can do it.

Anyone heard of Webster University?  This looks like a good school that has an MS in Finance that is both regionally and ACBSP accredited, but $21,960 is pretty expensive for school that is not AACBS 

 http://www.webster.edu/online/programshow.php?prog=finc 

 

The University of Houston has an AACSB accredited online MS in Finance:

http://prtl.uhcl.edu/portal/page/portal/BUS/NewBUS/degrees/MS-FinOnline.htm