By Alison Griswold, Ft Leavenworth Lamp
Contemplating business school, but wary of the hefty price tag? Online courses could be the solution. While taking classes on your own wouldn’t give you the career advancement or networking opportunities that come with traditional enrollment, classes on Coursera and other platforms can closely approximate the core curriculum of a top-notch MBA program. Using the “curriculum snapshot” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, we found close (or nearly exact!) free online matches for the six “fixed core” courses its MBAs are required to take.