In 1996, we challenged the educational establishment by creating totally flexible, no-nonsense, real-world, online MBA, MPM, MLA, Ph.D., DBA and other Doctoral, Master's and Bachelor's degree programs that offer you academic freedom: the power to totally control how, where, when and what you will learn.
Our programs are writing-based and have no exams or required courses. Our star professors will use our version of the Oxford tutorial method to work with you one-on-one to help you design and complete your custom program. Our editors will help you improve your writing whether English is your first or second language.
In 2002 the need for our approach to higher education was validated by Stanford Business School Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer's widely publicized article, The End of Business Schools.
His article, based on 40 years of research, was highly critical of how tenured professors at traditional business schools force students to study obsolete curriculums that waste thousands of hours of their students' time on irrelevant courses. In his own words:
"Little of what is taught to students in business school prepares them for the corporate workplace. You have to question what goes on in the two years it takes to get an MBA, if someone can virtually be equivalent in two or three weeks. What that suggests to me is that if you take a smart person, and give them a relatively short course, a mini-MBA, if you will, they basically do as well as the MBAs."
"One of the problems is that much of the business school curriculum has remained unchanged since the 1960s. Business schools rely on outmoded teaching methods and do not afford students an opportunity for practical experience."
This problem exists because tenured professors at these schools have academic freedom (the power to control what, how, when and where students will learn), and their students have none.
Today our programs have almost total acceptance in the international business world. Fortune 500 corporations (including GE, AT&T, Nokia, EDS, Walt Disney & Oracle), international organizations and governments recognize the superiority of our 100% relevant and effective programs. Below you will learn why, as I explain how our programs work and why traditional programs do not.
Michael Cox, Ph.D., CPA
Founder of Rushmore University
Our mission is simple. We want to maximize your success in your professional and personal life. From the very beginning, I designed every element of our programs around these goals.
Our all-star faculty of CEOs, consultants, executives, best-selling authors, and entrepreneurs have helped our students receive promotions, earn raises, find new jobs, become CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs who started new businesses, consultants, or become the authors of books or other publications.
Your online MBA, Master of Practicing Managment (MPM), Master of Liberal Arts (MLA), Ph.D., DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) or other Master's, Doctoral or Bachelor's degree program in over 75 other areas will be custom designed by your faculty advisor.
You will not be required to study the same subjects and use the same books as every other Rushmore student. Our professors will work with you one-on-on to design a totally custom program curriculum that will help you to reach your professional and personal goals. If you want extraordinary results from your efforts, our programs are what you are looking for. They can help you earn an exceptionally high income, build an extraordinarily high net worth, and create an enviable lifestyle.
Our star professors will help you to set specific goals in regard to income, career, lifestyle, retirement plans and wealth.
Your online MBA/Master's or Ph.D., DBA, or other Doctoral or Bachelor's degree will be a custom-made program, designed just for you with the help of your faculty advisor. Early in the program we will ask you questions designed to help you to discover and implement personal advancement strategies. These strategies will help to maximize your career potential, multiply your income, increase your wealth, and provide you with new lifestyle options. We will ask questions such as: How much do you want to earn? How wealthy do you want to be? When do you want to retire or become financially independent? Where do you want to go in your career? Do you want to have your own business?
If you do not set big enough goals, we will tell you so. We will then ask you to think big, to think outside the box. We believe your dreams have a better chance of coming true with a creative strategy and intelligent work.