Hello,

Hope you don't mind about my existential doubts but I'm pretty confuse if I should get an MBA and if so which one to choose. Any advice would be warmly welcome

I live in Switzerland, got two bachelors, one in communication and one in marketing. I'm 34 and have about 12 years of work experience.

I worked hard in order to achieve those two bachelors especially because I've a young daughter of 22 month and I did it while working at 100%.

Now I really want my career to take off and I'm considering getting an MBA which would be online only. I'm currently key account manager in a communication agency and my goal is to become at least an head of communication manager in a big company.

I was wondering if you think a Mba could significantly help me to achieve this goal and if so which business school or university I should enroll? Guess I should go with a marketing specialization I didn't find many online. Regarding the budget my breakdown would be about 33k$.

Thank you.

Generally speaking, an online MBA could work for your situation and career goals. However, you'll want to connect with the schools you are looking at and ask them specifically about how the programs line up with your expectations.

Start with the FT's online MBA ranking. IE's program is the top ranked, and while it does look a bit outside your budget, they do usually offer some kind of financial aid packages which would get the cost down a bit. Warwick's program is a bit less expensive, and has reasonably comparable post-MBA salary increases.

Usually, the online MBA programs that offer short on campus residencies are better than those that don't, in terms of soft skill development and networking opportunities.

Just keep in mind, however, compared to a completely in-class program, online MBA programs don't provide the same level of career support after the program.

Good idea, the only problem is that most of online mba are general one with no specialization except maybe i.e ones but which is like you said really expensive.

I've been through many post about online mba and found really interesting view in particular from Dunkan and some others. What I've noticed so far are:

- go with a gmat one
- go with those who offer short campuses residencies
- go with those which are fully accredited
- career support aren't so great in DL campuses

So in terms of UK campuses it means

Warwick's
Bradford
Babson College: Olin (according to FT)
Durham University Business School

Am I right? What about liverpool university one which harass me since i fulfilled the information box?

Do you think there some us interesting alternative for someone who live in Europe and don't necessary will go to USA what is the point of view of european recruiters about US degree?

Also, have you heard any mba in which the communication marketing branding would be especially taught ?

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Warwick's
Bradford
Babson College: Olin (according to FT)
Durham University Business School

Do you think there some us interesting alternative for someone who live in Europe and don't necessary will go to USA what is the point of view of european recruiters about US degree?

Also, have you heard any mba in which the communication marketing branding would be especially taught ?