[rich]

I’m an older candidate and really need to hurry up and get things done. I have only a BS in business and a few more credits, and I was thinking of going for a quick and inexpensive MBA at Fitchburg State in MA.
They say don’t bother with an MBA unless either your employer pays for it or you go to a high ranked program, but I’m certainly not going to get in to a top program with my educational background.

This program can be done for under $13k, and looks like I could be done by the end of summer 2018.

I was looking at alternatives like Babson with their MS in Accounting program, which is 7 months long but it’s also 59,000.

I’ve been told people look down on low quality MBA, even more so than having only a BS, and you “punch your MBA ticket” I was never going to go to Wharton so what’s the point there?

Any thoughts?

[rich]

There's more to college than just tuition. I'm taking one course right now, and this is the cost breakdown:

COLLEGE FEES
$456.00 
NSCC FACILITY FEE
$25.00
TUITION 1
$75.00
TECHNOLOGY FEE
$87.00

That's one course. There's a slightly less expensive community college here in the Boston area, but I'm sticking with the one where I went before getting my BS.

[Missy]

NSCC is a decent community college but definitely NOT the cheapest. My youngest is a senior in high school and was thinking about dual enrollment there for her senior year, secretly I'm glad she stayed at Danvers High. Senior year is expensive enough without 4k in community college tuition on top of it!

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