Greater earnings come with an MBA: Statistically, someone with an MBA earns as much as one-third to double the annual income of someone with a bachelors degree. (Based on a report by The Graduate Management Admission Council which surveyed 5,829 MBA gradates from 129 business schools in 2005. Their average base salary when starting a new job was $90,652. This compares to numbers in the $50,000-$60,000 range for those with a bachelor’s degree alone.

The Financial Times reported in October, 2005, that MBA graduates reported a salary increase of more than double their pre-MBA incomes. These MBA students indicated that they received an average salary increase of 117%!!!

MBA'S ARE TERRIBLY EXPENSIVE -- BUT NOT HERE!
Cost of an MBA in traditional school settings: The average cost of an MBA in 2006 appears to be approximately $100,000 and consists of 36-credit hours in required academic study.

SAINT JAMES COLLEGE'S MBA TUITIONS ARE A FRACTION OF OTHER'S COST!
If you are a new student with no academic or business experience, you'll be given an opportunity to go through our entire one-year program. The tuition cost for this "standard student" program is $10,000.

Our FAST-TRACK MBA Program, though, costs only half as much!

Pay only $3,000 to $6,000 for an MBA from Saint James College through our Fast-Track Program if you have previous academic qualifications coupled with real-life business expereince! This varies because of the amount of real-life experience our government charter permits us to grant...plus adding in any past college credits you may have. We don't bill you for classes for which you've already earned college credits ...nor do we bill you for your real-life, hands-on professional experiences!

ABOUT BEING ENDOWED FINANCIALLY...
Because Saint James College is owned by The Love Church Worldwide interfaith-denomination, the college is able to operate with vastly lower expense levels than traditional and for-profit universities.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO EARN MY M.B.A. DEGREE?
You may earn your Masters Of Business Administration in three or four months, if you bring lots of real-life experience and previous schooling to the table. With no experience and no graduate level academic background, it can take one to two years. However, since most of our students are adult learners, most have the background needed to be awarded their degrees rather quickly compared to "bricks and mortar" colleges and universities.

EARN YOUR DEGREE...AND DO YOUR LESSONS ENTIRELY ON-LINE!
Our qualified professors will teach you online at your convenience, and also assist and mentor you by telephone as needed. Study from the comfort of your home...at the cottage...in your backyard...or during breaks at your office. This is a self-paced MBA educational program and we'll be here to assist you every step of the way...whether you go fast or slow!

REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCE CAN VASTLY CUT YOUR STUDY TIME!
Credit for Real-Life experience: Our government charter permits us to grant up to 50% of the required 36 credit hours based on your Real Life experience. So, if you have been in business, management, or administration for some time and have acquired significant hands-on experience that we can credit toward your MBA, you may be required to complete only 18-hours of study. But, wait! That may be reduced even further!

ALL "TRANSFER CREDITS" ARE ACCEPTED!
ALL previous college / university credits will be accepted: Unlike most colleges and universities, Saint James College will automatically accept all academic credits that you have earned previously at other institutions of higher education.

Most schools require that you re-take large numbers of courses when you enroll in their programs, particularly if your credit hours were earned several years ago. Naturally, this brings in tidy amounts of extra income for them. But, with Saint James College, we do not require you to re-take classes unnecessarily merely to create a profit center for us!

ABOUT ACCREDITATION:

Saint James College is accredited by The Association of Accredited Bible Schools. We adhere to the high academic and ethical standards set forth by AABS and other national and international accrediting agencies. Our goal is to be one of the finest colleges in America, presenting our students with a quality education, honoring previous adademic work at other colleges and universities and, as provided by our government charter, accepting real-life experience for up to one-half of your required credit hours.

While we are proud to be accredited by the Association of Accredited Bibe Schools, we are a relatively new college and we are not yet eligible to be regionally accredited. This is less and less important in today’s job market where employers are hungry for qualified employees and have fewer concerns about accreditation than in the past. Our degrees are real degrees, legitimate, and awarded by a college that is sponsored by a fully-chartered parent, The Love Church Worldwide inter-faith denomination.

As many as 99% of non-traditional education students surveyed by a government-sponsored study said that they feel their degree meets or exceeds a traditional degree. The study showed that roughly one-fifth of those who were awarded a non-traditional under-graduate degree went on to obtain a masters or doctorate. 97% of the non-traditional undergrads were accepted by the grad school that they preferred. Three percent reported some difficulties in presenting a non-accredited degree or transcripts from a non-accredited college, or for having obtain real-life experience credits. The bottom line is that the study showed that a full 94 percent reported no difficulty in being admitted to graduate school due to having an unaccredited degree or earning it through non-traditional or online education.

(See Sosdian, Carol P. and Sharp, Laure M., The External Degree as a Credential: Graduates’ Experience in Employment and Further Study, Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.)

OUR DEGREES MUST HAVE A SPIRITUAL COMPONENT:
The second caveat is that Saint James College degrees must have a “spiritual flavor” to them. Due to being owned by a chartered religious denomination, the government requires that our degrees be awarded with a relationship to a church or spiritual competency. You may sign your name with your credentials, such as Kathy Smith, MBA, or Larry Jones, MBA … but the government requires that your actual diploma must say “Masters of Business Administration for Religious Institutional Management” or, perhaps, “Masters of Business Administration in Spiritual Organization Management.” Because our degrees were designed at the outset to assist priests, ministers, and spiritual workers to increase their competencies and advance their careers, this has been consistent with our mission. It also enables us to offer MBA degrees for as much as 95% below the “market” cost in traditional education. Nonetheless, this requirement may not be acceptable to all students. Consider all higher educational degree programs carefully and choose one that matches your budget and also your professional needs.

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