Morning Birds Listen Up: American Kogod Offers New Professional MBA Just for You
As we recently reported, schools from across the DC metro have been expanding their options for Executive MBAs to make room for DC’s successful and intellectually curious professionals. This year, American University’s Kogod School of Business is offering a new program for morning people.
The program will follow the same course as the school’s pre-existing evening MBA: one class at a time, one morning per week, stretching over a curse of 27 months. But the school is hoping to hit a previously untapped market.
“This [cohort] is for people who wake up ready to go at dawn…for those who, previously, have had to sit around and wait on the rest of the world to catch up with them,” said Jill Klein, a program director of the professional MBA. “We’re hoping to change that with classes for the breakfast crowd.”
Although there are a few in other parts of the country, Kogod’s new PMBA will be the only morning MBA option in the DC Metro.
“We looked around [the D.C. metro] area and saw a market of people who have been overlooked by higher education and we wanted to respond to that need,” Klein said. “This is a very market-driven program option.”
From the sounds of it, Klein has high ambitions.
“Culturally, night school has dominated America for generations. People are conditioned to assume that earning a degree while working full-time means going to class late,” Klein said. “Nobody thinks of going to class before work and we hope to change that.”
