More business schools are including case studies in their curricula around issues such as sexual harassment and corporate misbehavior as students express more interest in how businesses handle social and ethical issues. Leanne Meyer, co-director of a new leadership department at the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, says that "shareholders are looking to corporate leaders to make statements on what would traditionally have been social justice or moral issues."
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Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business is adding a flexible MBA program that allows students to learn online and attend on-campus immersive experiences six times a year. Similar hybrid and specialized programs also are offered at the business schools at Duquesne and Chatham universities and the University of Pittsburgh.
The most affordable online MBA program in the US is offered by Mississippi State University at $13,680, while the most expensive program is at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, which costs $128,000, according to this analysis. The average tuition of an online MBA among 41 schools included in the analysis was $52,264, the data show.
Prospective MBA students should seek programs that teach the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, says Willem-Jan van Hoeve, an associate professor of operations research at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. Other experts recommend students look for programs that address ethical considerations of AI and realistically explore its limits.
Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business' online-hybrid MBA program takes the top spot in the Poets & Quants inaugural ranking of online business schools, with Indiana University's Kelley School of Business Kelley Direct program coming in second. Admissions standards played a key role in the ranking, according to the publication.
The Fox School of Business at Temple University topped the U.S. News & World Report rankings for the best online MBA program, with Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Indiana University-Bloomington's Kelley School of Business tied for second. The rankings are based on factors such as student engagement and faculty credentials.