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I wasn't trying to look clever I was trying to get at more what you are looking for in terms of information. My advice, take what you can from them. However, be careful what you take, I had to do a course costing over 20k in the past and had to sign a bond with the company to do so.

I know people who have completed them and not regretted them and are doing well, I don't know of many otherwise. It depends what your aims are and line of work is surely as to the usefulness?

Best advice I have heard: If you're gonna to do an MBA, do it at either one of the top 5 (UK this means Oxbridge, or LBS, LSE and maybe Warwick, or at the other extreme, one of the cheap MBA-by-numbers schools. Everything in between means you are doing all of the hard work but not getting the kudos.


Having an MBA is one thing, but ifor it to have the cachet, it really does count where it's from IMO. In addition, the networks of business people and the amount of alumni support (vested interest: I got mine at Oxford) is immense. My income increased by 50% in the first year after leaving it, just by taking on other projects or putting different groups of people together. I can go for senior positions in contracts etc just because I have the background lingo to make my pitch sound confident.

Needing to learn what's on an MBA course can be done at even the cheap schools. Using the MBA as a business credential is another aspect of it altogether.

London business school?
http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/glob...

Doctorate I would suspect would be less dependant on where it is completed and more important for content quality of your work. It is very much a more individual merit award in my experience.

Well, I didn't ask for the best ranked university, I asked for the best source of rankings. I'm guessing from your link that you think the FT is it?

The Doctorate would be at a very old Scottish University, and is partly taught, mostly research so maybe a better move. That's if I plan to stay in education and it's not a comfortable environment with redundancies on the horizon.

MBA or Doctorate? It all depends upon your motivation; knowledge aquisition, status, financial gain or career development? Funding of course is a factor, as is your own availability of time when balanced against any other commitments, such as family or current job. From my experience, MBA is best for public and private business sector career enhancement (despite the panning MBAs have had since the collapse of the banks (they all had MBAs, but still managed to cock things up)), whereas a Doctorate may be best if you intend to remain in academia. And as said before, which provider you choose is really important. Good luck!

I completed a PhD many years ago and supervised a couple. My experience is that Doctorates require a different level of committment to a masters/MBA, are prone to failure, and in most cases you will need to demonstrate a MBA before beginning a DBA. So the MBA is a good starting point rather than an alternative. If you can succeed with a MBA you have more chance at succeeding with a Doctorate and if you choose your MBA dissertation carefully it can accelerate your Doctorate.

There are examples of career development experiences with an MBA here and alternatives to the OU MBA for a lower price:

http://www.rdi.co.uk/distance-learning/student-tes...

DEd is a good differentiator in HE, both publicly funded and the emerging private HE sector in the UK. With an MEd already under your belt I would go for the DEd too rather than an MBA unless you wanted to teach business related subjects. HE is a thriving sector currently worldwide so there of lots of different career opportunities and paths you can take. I made the jump from from the publicly funded to the private HE sector 10 years ago and have never looked back. Just decide where you want to be in a few years time and go for it!

You're up late/early. Will google INSEAD tomorrow (today?) thanks.