I am in located in the U.S.A., and lots of universities here offer open extension programs for business administration. Some colleges will even give you a business CERTIFICATE if you take the right set of classes.

These certificates look alot like the core m.b.a. curriculum. You know accounting, marketing, operations and all.

Soooo, my question is how much better off on the job market is someone with an M.B.A. than if they got one of these certificates from a good university? What do y'all think?

Anyone?

probably a big difference between the mba and certificate for employers, no?