Today's paper version of the Wall Street Journal had a special section devoted to Executive MBAs, including a top 25 list of schools and a bunch of related articles about the programs, their customers, and companies' views of EMBAs. The package is online, too:The rankings did not include any Boston-area business school offering EMBAs (Northeastern, UMass, Bentley, Babson, etc.) but I found it remarkable that such a list was even featured in the Wall Street Journal. Just three years ago the WSJ printed an article that quoted executive recruiters calling anything less than a full-time program "MBA lite" (see Part-time vs. Full-time, Online, and my Harvard whine). The fact that the WSJ now has a ranking mechanism and related coverage for part-time MBA programs aimed at working professionals validates this group of 25 schools as serious, legitimate degrees to the entire U.S. business establishment.
I hope similar sentiment can one day be extended to quality liberal arts and professional masters' programs that can be taken part-time. In the world of higher education, "continuing education" is often associated with people taking classes casually, and many people in academia are unaware of the serious study and research taking place at part-time degree programs.
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