The Online MBA on an Unprecedented Path to Success

Discover why online MBAs are soaring in popularity. Learn about flexible, career-boosting programs, virtual learning, and how COVID-19 accelerated their rise.

The Online MBA on an unprecedented success course

With an Online MBA, you can earn the "Master of Business Administration" degree through online studies. Due to the Covid19 virus, this further education variant is experiencing an unprecedented boom.

Similar to distance learning MBAs, Online MBA programs are offered as part-time studies. However, unlike distance learning, there are no attendance times for the Online MBA. All lectures, exchanges with fellow students, and even exams take place online.

It's no wonder that the Online MBA is considered the most flexible variant of part-time MBA studies and is currently gaining great popularity among all those who want to further their education and advance their careers. At most schools, students can start the Online MBA at any time. They work through the study content independently online and without fixed deadlines or specific scheduling requirements. In many cases, an extension of the study period is easily possible if needed.

The content of the Online MBA, similar to distance learning MBAs, is worked through with the help of online learning materials and video courses. Many universities also have their own online campus where you can download documents, submit assignments, and exchange ideas with fellow students and professors in forums.

With the onset of the lockdown restrictions caused by the Corona pandemic, schools developed a wide variety of concepts for virtual learning. The number of lectures held via video chat is continuously increasing. This allows students to ask direct questions to the lecturer and complete their exams online from home. Nevertheless, despite all the flexibility of the Online MBA program, one should consider that in addition to work and everyday life, one still has to factor in 20-25 hours of work for the studies.

Among MBA providers in Germany, the Online MBA usually differs only slightly from a distance learning MBA. Due to the Covid19 pandemic, both study variants are increasingly relying on new teaching formats such as online seminars and video lectures or student exchange in online forums. As a result, further education in both distance learning and Online MBA is now largely online, and the differences are increasingly disappearing. In the long term, the Online MBA will probably prevail and, as a stable format, will probably even move ahead of the attendance study variant.

Text source: ESA GmbH