front-page coverage for the IUS MBA program

From Harold Adams in the (Louisville) C-J...

NICE!

Adams hits on our quality and cost-- compared to the other fully-accredited MBA programs in the Louisville area.

Boosted by rankings that list it among the country's best, enrollment at Indiana University Southeast's MBA program has soared recently, despite stiff local competition from Bellarmine University and the University of Louisville.

Fall enrollment in the IUS program in New Albany, grew in 2008 by 16 percent, to a record 253 students, following a BusinessWeek ranking the previous year that put IUS 18th nationally and third in the Midwest among part-time programs leading to a master's degree in business administration...

"We built the program from the ground up for part-time students … (who) can't afford to leave their job for two years to pursue a fulltime MBA," White said. Its MBA program began in 1991.

IUS students point to other key factors -- cost, schedules and class sizes....

IUS, U of L and Bellarmine are the only MBA programs in the Louisville area that are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, or AACSB....

White said 54 percent of MBA students at IUS this semester are from Kentucky. He said many cross the river, in part, because of a tuition-reciprocity agreement that allows students in the metro area, from either Kentucky or Indiana, area to pay in-state tuition to study in the other state.

Tuition for the IUS program is $300 per credit hour, which White said translates to a total cost of $11,500 for a student who enters the program with a bachelor's degree in business. That contrasts with $30,000 at U of L and $25,000 to $35,000 at Bellarmine...