{"id":68070,"date":"2019-08-24T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68070"},"modified":"2019-08-24T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:29:40","slug":"5-reasons-why-bus-24k-mba-is-a-big-deal-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/08\/24\/5-reasons-why-bus-24k-mba-is-a-big-deal-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons Why BU&#8217;s $24K MBA Is A Big Deal [Kim]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/technology-and-learning\/5-reasons-why-bus-24k-mba-big-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>5 Reasons Why BU&#8217;s $24K MBA Is A Big Deal<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from insidehighered.com by Joshua Kim<br \/>\n<em>Why I\u2019m intrigued.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The newly announced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/digital-learning\/article\/2019\/08\/14\/boston-us-new-online-mba-less-expensive-and-different-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>$24K BU MBA,<\/strong><\/a> created in partnership with edX, is a big deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Here are 5 reasons why:<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>#1:\u00a0The Evolving Connection Between Status and Price:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Boston University Questrom School of Business is ranked in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-graduate-schools\/top-business-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top 50 global business schools<\/a>\u00a0by US News, in the top 70 by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/whichmba\/boston-university-questrom-school-business\/2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economist<\/a>.\u00a0Questrom is a brand name business school in a market where the value of the MBA is directly proportional to the status of the institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Today, status and price are tightly correlated in the postsecondary market.\u00a0This is especially true in professional education.\u00a0Student prices are not set at costs, but at perceived value.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">BU should be given credit for challenging this status quo.\u00a0I suspect that the Questrom $24K MBA will end up improving BU&#8217;s place in the global MBA rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>What is different now is that it will not only be enthusiasm for learning science that will drive schools (and MBA programs) to improve their programs.\u00a0It will be the market.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Reasons Why BU&#8217;s $24K MBA Is A Big Deal &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Joshua Kim Why I\u2019m intrigued. Excerpt: The newly announced\u00a0$24K BU MBA, created in partnership with edX, is a big deal. Here are 5 reasons why: #1:\u00a0The Evolving Connection Between Status and Price: The Boston University Questrom School of Business is ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,829,3,419,64,825,74,510,379,505,62,309,321,214,367,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-cost-of-legal-services-including-access","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-it-in-he","category-law-schools","category-leadership","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-mba","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68072,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68070\/revisions\/68072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}