How does the TEMBA program benefit the rest of the graduate business school?
That’s a big can of worms. The bottom line is that as a special program, it isn’t constrained by all of the rules of the day program. So we start asking questions like: Why don’t we offer everything this way? It makes us question if there are better ways to structure our programs. These students are paying substantially more than they would for the day program. Right now, the school has added someone new in career services, and my position is partially funded through TEMBA, too. Q: What other B-schools did the McCombs school benchmark against when it began shaping its own part-time MBA program? A: It’s not true that every major university offers a part-time MBA, so we looked at schools that are comparable in size and ranking. We benchmarked against the University of California, Los Angeles’ Anderson School of Business, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, even though they aren’t active in the evening MBA [space], as well as Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business and Chi
