MBAs designed for Techies

USCD starts something new

[tedster]

Some interesting buzz around about this MBA program that's geared toward giving promising techies some of the other skills they need to build effective businesses.

The PR buzz right now comes because of a new, hefty endowment, but I think the approach to education is pretty sharp. When I was in college, business and tech didn't even drink at the same bar.

Unlike conventional MBA programs, UCSD's program will target students...who have an understanding and appreciation of science and technology.

Business Wire [home.businesswire.com]

[eWhisper]

In the past few years Loyola of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon have offered an MBEs (masters business ecommerce), (not sure if someone offered it before them) which was the start of a trend which other schools are starting to catch up to in mixing business and tech.

Hopefully it'll be a growing trend and more schools will offer courses which begin to cross back and forth from offline to online.

[karmov]

Dalhousie University in Canada has offered a Masters of E-Commmerce for quite a few years now. It goes a step further combining Computer Science, Business and Law.

[balinor]

In this day and age, I can't imagine any MBA program NOT teaching the principles of e-commerce or at least the use of the web in general for business.

[eWhisper]

At many business schools (at least in the U.S.) you have to add classes or ecommerce cirtificates to include internet training with regular MBA degrees.

I'm sure that as time passes, ecommerce will start being included more often in traditional MBA degrees.

Not sure why this isn't standard yet, but it does take time (and expertise) to develop classes.

It will be interesting to see how MBEs fare in compenstation versus traditional MBAs.

[Shane]

I know a grad from Dalhousie University in Canada who is currently unemployed. Doesn't guarantee a job unfortunately.

..... Shane

[tedster]

I also think UCSD is focusing on tech folks who can highly use, but might not go for, a traditional MBA. Many bright ideas have not entered the everyday world because the smarts were there, but not the business savvy.

[eWhisper]

Doesn't guarantee a job unfortunately.

College grad story, not masters.
CNN Article [cnn.com]