Do recruiters value distance learned MBAs?
In the past distance learning MBAs have been seen as poor substitutes for the real deal of the full time campus based experience. They have often been accused of providing a substandard learning environment, lacking key elements such as the chance to build the all important network, and subsequently being undervalued by recruiters. Although today there is still a high degree of variability within online offerings, many of these preconceptions are now being challenged, indeed the new wave of high quality online learning technologies are redefining the very notion of distance learning. Just as we see the business environment being transformed by these technologies so education is also undergoing a dramatic shift. With institutions now capable of linking together globally diverse participants in real time and asynchronously with online technologies what was previously lumped under the title of distance learning is in reality a wide range of different learning models and modes of study. Mo
