Don't Pay for Your MBA: The Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Get the Business Education You Need
The average debt load for graduates of the top business schools has now exceeded $100,000 For most young professionals, this means spending the first half of their career in the red and feeling pressure to take the first position offered to them so that they can start paying off their debt. But it doesn't have to be that way Author and businesswoman Laurie Pickard discovered a way to get the business education she needed to land her dream job while avoiding the massive school loans that plague so many. And in Don't Pay for Your MBA, she shares all that she learned so that others can benefit as well.Pickard discovered that the same prestigious business schools that offer the MBAs so many covet also offer MOOCs (massive online open courses) for low or even no cost. By picking the right classes from the best schools, she gained the skills she needed and avoided the debt she could not afford to take on. The most difficult part was knowing how to begin and where to look. So she has provid