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I have to choose Dublin Business School MBA or Griffith College MBA (International Business) there is 1000 Euro differences between them.
I need some suggestion to make a wright decision
looking forward to hearing from you

I could not recommend either of them You'd be better off attending a non-profit university. Take a look at:
http://www.find-mba.com/board/12065
http://www.find-mba.com/board/13837

Dear Duncan
Thank you for prompt reply. Unfortunately have no time left and has no more energy to apply and wait another months forward and backword e-mail belive me "tried". I have admitted two of them I have to choose one of them. please share your thought and why you prefer one to another
(only DBS and Griffith college) thank you in advance

I really could not offer an opinion. Which universities actually issue their degrees? I guess they both must be paying former polytecnhics in the UK for validation...

Dear Duncan
Thank you for reply.recognition and accreddiation is for DBS; HETAC, JMU (Liverpol), Education in Ireland, ACCA, CIMA
For Griffith college is HETAC and NTU
I have MSc on agricultural economics and working already in development field and 44 years old. Now I need a refreshment of my knowledge and adapted the new techniques and follow. that is the main reason to apply. Now it may help to provide any opinion?
thank you in advance

I don't understand why you are looking at these programmes. You and I are the same age. You will have more experience than everyone else in the room added together. You are not the sort of candidate they are looking for. If you want a degree from a former polytechnic like NTU or JMU then a least study at those universities, rather than in a small for-profit campus.

Why not look at something like http://cdm.aim.edu/academics/master-in-development-management or http://www.rau.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-study/business/mbas ?

Dear Duncan
Okey your advise means a lot. I have also been accepted Erasmus Univ-ISS Rotterdam economics of development. it is 15 months and around 14-15000 Euro. It was expensive and no scholorship for me due to my age. That is why I was looking for cheaper MBA or MSc. anyhow I think I need to take consideration of ISS option. It is univ and have a good reputation but the country official language is not English and the fee is high compare to Ireland. Anyhow thank you once again for your time

Shop around. On a scale of 0 to 100, in terms of how well something might develop your professionally, Griffiths and DBS are in single figures and ISS would be over 50. I must admit that a friend of mine studied at ISS programme and this was very good for him professionally. They are world-famous and will have the right sort of cohort. However, they will not have the careers services that a top 50 business school.

Dear Duncan
Thank you for reply.recognition and accreddiation is for DBS; HETAC, JMU (Liverpol), Education in Ireland, ACCA, CIMA
For Griffith college is HETAC and NTU
I have MSc on agricultural economics and working already in development field and 44 years old. Now I need a refreshment of my knowledge and adapted the new techniques and follow. that is the main reason to apply. Now it may help to provide any opinion?
thank you in advance

Hi Sevinc,

I'm worried that the advisors here are not giving you very good guidance. HETAC (Higher Education Training Awards Council) is the government body awarding postgraduate and undergraduate degrees in the Irish non-publicly-funded education sector. HETAC qualifications are well-regarded within Ireland and have a high reputation internationally. They come under the Bologna EU agreement on higher education mapping.
Best of luck in your decision.

Liv

Hi Liv. What specifically is not very good about this advice? HETAC degrees are, of course, real degrees meeting the minimum criteria for degrees issued under the Bologna accords. No-one here has suggested otherwise. However, not all degrees are equal.

Just because these degrees meet the minimum standards, that doesn't mean that we are not giving good advice if we recommend against them. Other business schools publish placement reports showing the value they create for their students: DBS and Griffith do not.

Almost every institution / University in Ireland must be awarding HETAC degrees, so according to Liv all these universities will have equal opportunities.

This is as good as saying all public universities in UK would offer same career opportunities since they are all approved by UK Govt.

Hi
let me put my 2 cents in it. Griffith college dublin - MBA is great for Irish person to be honest. There must be a reason for that . The data above isn't correct, 2 years were compressed in 1 year and you have to work twice as hard. The degree is great but I'm not sure whether they would help you to get a job if you are Indian. Irish person would find a job anyway, with or without they help. Those guys are promoters of Trinity and Smurfit, I'm not. Trinity and Smurfit would cost you more because of that promotion. Better talk to alumni.

"Richard" I suggest you get a native speaker to help you with your next post.

Smurfit and Trinity's MBAs are also one-year programs, and this is pretty common in Europe. The thing is though that Trinity and Smurfit have international accreditation, which naturally mean that they have more resources to help place international students. And plus they're more competitive to get into, meaning that the cohorts will probably be better suited to do what it takes to get a job in the country after graduation.

Griffith College. Griffith College MBA was the best for me and for my friends (also DCU isn't bad) , but if you are foreighner and incapable to find a job upon graduation go to trinity and ucd, they are so friendly with microsoft, not sure what kind of deal is there.
MBA in Griffith hands down.

P.S. and I'm from dublin. Irish person.
with all I do respect Elizabeth.

I find it hard to think that Liz is an Irish person if she has so many errors in her written English even after editing it. If she is, I don't know what that says about the education at Griffith.

Even so, the main point is this: Liz and her friend try to position Griffith as if it's better than Trinity and UCD. That is simply mistaken and is supported by no objective fact. It's not just that they have a 'deal' with Microsoft: they have success at placing students into MBA-level roles in Ireland. You can see Griffith's record for yourself: How to use LinkedIn to find the best school www.find-mba.com/board/33571

Duncan don't be mean, it is irish way. but Lizzie is not stupid.
Duncan! Are you sure you are native? sound to formal to me

Hi "Emily". I'm a native speaker and, for what it's worth, an Irish citizen. Click on my profile page to read about me. A native speaker would write "it is *the* *I*rish way" and *sound*s* to*o* formal". If you three are the Irish people you claim to be, I'll eat my words, but none of you are a testament to the teaching quality of Griffith.

I'm not trying to sound like a prick. My experience is that very often people who create accounts and comment strong in favour of one school are puppets and sockpuppets rather than the people the claim to be.

top of the morning to ya, I've studied in both and I found the comment below to be most helpful. I agree with Ciara on this matter.


Ciara wrote earlier: MBA topic: Griffith College Dublin is perfect imho, trinity is expensivr 'rip-off', smurfit UCD is a joke - nobody knows it outside of ireland and it's expensive. check only reliable sources such as wikipedia for moreinformation, talk to alumni. Be aware of possible promotion which will cost you 'an arm and a leg'. in addition: NUI Galway is lovely :) tuition fee is reasonablem but it is not as good as Griffith College imho. but I'm local , where are you from good man? Slán for now :)
to cut a long story short, here is all you need to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_College_Dublin - for locals and the best one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College,_Dublin - for foreigners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_of_Ireland,_Galway - my favourite, but I'm biased.

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