The big MBA employers don't recruit for MBA-level positions from the unaccredited MBA programmes. And even within the accredited programmes, there's a lot of hierarchy: some employers go only to the top 20, top 10 or top 5 schools that they prioritise.
Accreditation by AACBS, AMBA and/or EQUIS assures the employer that students have a rigorous curriculum, a solid student experience and adequate support facilities.
That is why there is a huge difference between the salaries that students get. In Britain, for example, I would imagine that pre-experience MBA students are probably graduating onto salaries closer to those of an undergraduate than to those of the MBA alumni of the top accredited schools.
PS There's a further element here, which is that generally (and not without exeptions) the unaccredited MBAs tend to be in lower-quality schools (For example: In Britain accredited in old universities and unaccredited in modern universities; In France accredited in the grande ecoles and unaccredited in the state universities; In Germany accredited in the elite universities and unaccredited in the Fachhochschules). That means that overseas students in particular, who understand neither the accreditation systems nor the differing reputation of universities, often end up making bad choices.
The big MBA employers don't recruit for MBA-level positions from the unaccredited MBA programmes. And even within the accredited programmes, there's a lot of hierarchy: some employers go only to the top 20, top 10 or top 5 schools that they prioritise.
Accreditation by AACBS, AMBA and/or EQUIS assures the employer that students have a rigorous curriculum, a solid student experience and adequate support facilities.
That is why there is a huge difference between the salaries that students get. In Britain, for example, I would imagine that pre-experience MBA students are probably graduating onto salaries closer to those of an undergraduate than to those of the MBA alumni of the top accredited schools.
PS There's a further element here, which is that generally (and not without exeptions) the unaccredited MBAs tend to be in lower-quality schools (For example: In Britain accredited in old universities and unaccredited in modern universities; In France accredited in the grande ecoles and unaccredited in the state universities; In Germany accredited in the elite universities and unaccredited in the Fachhochschules). That means that overseas students in particular, who understand neither the accreditation systems nor the differing reputation of universities, often end up making bad choices.
