Business Schools Quality Parameters in Andhra Pradesh

A wave of business education started in 90′s in India and the boom continued for a decade and a half and now we see a drop with many business schools closing down, at a point of time a management degree meant a guaranteed job and it is not so today It affirms the high quality of learning that can occur via distance education and proposes a strategy to conduct summative, program-level assessment. Specific findings include participants in all three groups self-reporting significantly higher scores on seven of twelve outcomes (e.g., goal setting, help, information gathering, leadership, quantitative, theory, and technology skills). It also notes that distance MBA students self reported significantly higher scores than on-campus students on the learning outcomes related to technology, quantitative, and theory skills, and higher scores on technology skills than the executive MBA group. Implications for further research are discussed. A lot of hype has been made about quality and a sudden discussion is centered around this whole word with various agencies evaluating management institutes on quality parameters, criteria being developed to serve as guiding steps to achieve quality, but in all this why should at all a management institute be concerned about quality if survival is not a competition.