Is that changing students mind-sets?
Yes, there are fewer firms willing to reimburse tuition at the same rate they were pre-2008, but that has been declining pretty rapidly across graduate education. Companies just aren’t giving up that discretionary funding and are not supporting students the way they used to. As a result, today’s students don’t feel that same sense of loyalty to employers because they haven’t invested in them. Part-time students seem to be demanding more career assistance than ever before from part-time MBA programs these days, with 87 percent of those surveyed indicating they expect the school to provide them with resources and connections to find a new or better job after graduation. How is that different from the past? There was a time when a part-time MBA student could not take advantage of anything in a career-management office unless they had a signed permission slip from their company. The companies were reimbursing the students and they didn’t want the schools to help them leave the organization
