How to become a SCUMBAG in 2 years
First – a SCUMBAG is a Santa Clara University MBA Graduate. It’s also an acronym that I really don’t like, but it’s catchy for a blog post title. Works at the twitter-size level.
When I first entered the SCU evening MBA program, I was provided two options for how to get through the program in either 2 or 3 years. The former included taking 3 classes per quarter in the Fall, Winter, and Spring, and then 2 in the summers. It was pretty intense, and I realized that I was likely to come much closer to 3 than 2.
Well, it turns out I could have finished in 2, despite a far less taxing schedule. Before you go onto “more,” I will say that I have slowed down my course progress a bit to time my enrollment in the ultimate “Capstone” course with a large group of others that increase my chances of being on a good team. And so that I can use Santa Clara’s employee tuition program to take a few classes out of pure interest, rather than only those required and needed to graduate. So I am looking at 2.75 years. But somehow I could have finished in 2… (more…)