Making the choice

I entered the MBA programme of Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University in January 2008. I have a strong background in technology which I felt needed a complementary business foundation in order to permit career progression.

At the time I was employed by Hewlett-Packard and had been authorized to pursue a degree as part of HP’s Degree Assistance Program. I was given (relatively) free choice of the institution which I chose in considering the following criteria:

• I wanted to ensure that I gained as much insight and practical understanding of business as possible and therefore carefully evaluated the credentials of leading faculty members.
  
• Since I travel frequently I needed a programme that would accommodate a free style of learning without specific time and location-based commitments. In other words, I prefer self-study over classroom tuition.
  
• I live in Austria and required an MBA programme which would allow me to attend and graduate without travel to examinations.
  
• In order to filter serious and professional programmes from mail-order MBAs I only investigated programmes with supervised examinations.

These criteria led me to the EBS MBA programme, with which I have been very satisfied. I completed my MBA in June 2009 and am now working on an MSc in Strategic Planning.

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