{"id":15,"date":"2008-02-06T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-02-06T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T12:11:00","slug":"pursuing-your-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing your MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This year, for the first time, the Economist Intelligence Unit has produced a ranking of the world\u2019s top distance-learning MBA programmes. Ranking distance-learning programmes is not straightforward. Many of the quantitative data used to rank full-time MBA programmes are of little use when it comes to distance learning. Salary data, for example, are less important because many students do not use the distance-learning MBA as a career break\u2014many will continue in their pre-MBA employment. Equally, networking does not play such a prominent role. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/Distance learning ranking: Florida shines\" title=\"Read article\">&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><em>(<\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mba.eiu.com\/index.asp?layout=view_article&amp;eiu_article_id=1782965163\" title=\"Distance learning ranking\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><em>Economist Intelligence Unit, published 23 January 2008<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\"><em>)<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Open University Business School is accredited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacsb.edu\/\" title=\"The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business\">AACSB<\/a>,&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.efmd.org\/component\/efmd\/?cmsid=041004geyi\" title=\"Raise the standard of management education worldwide\">EQUIS<\/a>,&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.efmd.org\/index.php\/component\/efmd\/?cmsid=040929dygl\" title=\"Programme accreditation for teChnology-Enhanced Learning\">EFMD CEL<\/a>, &#0160;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacsb.edu\/\" title=\"Association of MBAs\">AMBA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, for the first time, the Economist Intelligence Unit has produced a ranking of the world\u2019s top distance-learning MBA programmes. Ranking distance-learning programmes is not straightforward. Many of the quantitative data used to rank full-time MBA programmes are of little use when it comes to distance learning. Salary data, for example, are less important&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubs.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}