Business Degree Executive Master, Masters without a BA?
Other than H-W's MBA, are there any graduate programs that don't require a
Bachelor's degree?
When I went through Barron's Guide to Graduate Business Schools a few
years ago, I found 38 or 39 US and Canadian Master's programs that did
not necessarily require a Bachelor's, although most, perhaps all,
required either the GMAT or GRE exam or a lot of career experience. Many
of the "executive" Master's programs have a provision for accepting some
students without Bachelor's. And the reason there is a "Bending the
Rules" chapter in my book is that this sort of thing happens all the
time, but without publicity or public notice of any sort.
Perhaps I have mentioned previously on the ng, perhaps not -- I had a
colleague last year whose initial degree was a Master's in General
Linguistics from Heidelberg (Deutschland). Heidelberg, to the best of
my belief, has never been thought of as a degree mill, diploma mill, or
any other kind of mill. I suspect most knowledgeable people would
consider it historically the leading university in a nation of many
excellent institutions.
Thank you for the additional information. Yes. I'm quite sure my
friend's degree, earned some years ago, was the Magister Artium. He
commented that following his return to the USA, he acquired a Bachelor's
degree to satisfy some administrative foolishness at agencies requiring
such degrees. For example, I recall that a teaching credential in
California can be granted only to the holder of a "Regionally Accredited
Bachelor's Degree."
Beyond this, as a matter of further administrative nonsense, I have
mentioned before on the newsgroup another friend who teaches in
California and is the holder of a DPM. His school district does not
pay him the higher scale due the holder of a Master's degree, as he has
no Master's, only a Doctorate.