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I began my school career at Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana.  Like so many out there, a big school and some freedom worked on me.  I took some good classes, I took some bad classes.  Regardless of the grades I received, I learned a lot.  I loved Bloomington and I loved the time I had there.

While I was there, I married the love of my life and we had our first son.  We moved back to our hometown to get better jobs and cheaper housing.  To continue school, I began attending the University of Saint Francis which had a weekend college program.  I worked full time to support my family, so I went to school on the weekends.  I finished my Bachelor’s degree in Management after 9 years of working and going to school. 

I decided that I wanted to get a Master’s degree while I was working my way through my undergrad degree.  I saw the people around me in the workplace who had no credibility academically.  I wanted to be better than that, so when I was finished with my undergrad degree I jumped right into grad school at the Fort Wayne campus of Indiana University.

For those of you not familiar with Fort Wayne, Indiana, there are only a couple of choices for colleges in town.  There are a couple of “traditional” programs (i.e. 2 year programs with 16 week semesters) and there are a couple of non-traditional programs (i.e. 5 week semesters wtih classes only meeting once a week).  Now understand, there are no Harvards here in Fort Wayne.  I understand that and I accept it.  But out of the schools available, only one of them is recognized as having any kind of quality–IU Fort Wayne.

Here is the rub, though: the school isn’t exactly Yale.  It is accredited by the body that accredits business schools, but it is overshadowed by IU Bloomington’s Kelly School of Business.  What happens locally, then, is that all of the programs get lumped together as being basically the same.  At the risk of sounding like a snob, it really isn’t true.  How can a program that has 16 week semesters and is taught by PhD’s be the same as a program that has 5 total classes and is mostly taught by people who aren’t professional educators?

Most employers around here don’t make any sort of distinction between any of the programs.  There is Harvard Business School, then there is ever other program.  They don’t seem to care.  So I ask myself, why did I put myself through the harder program if the end result is the same?  Where does a good school that isn’t necessarily nationally known fit in?

Does anyone else run into these issues?  How did you handle it? 

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