I'm just wondering whether can I do MBA in the UK or US after ACA/ACCA without a degree? What I know is most business schools in the UK and the US require bachelor degrees. However, people like us started from cat/cfab may not have a degree upon qualifying, so can we still do an MBA?

This post has been edited by AhChian: Jun 10 2010, 06:15 PM

There may be some unis that do recognised the ACCA as a degree equivalent, but usually only permit entry into an MBA programme with relevant experience. So yes, with an ACCA and the required experience, you may apply for an MBA prog tho your choices may be limited...

I dont see why you need MBA. The ACCA is a professionl qualification. If is good enough to certify an account examined by you is in order. You can have a MBA of PhD and you still cant certify an account as done in proper standard.

Yeap, with enough working experience. They will check you during interview.

UK very possible... US unlikely.. when U speak with grad admission officer on ACCA they go "what's that!".
U may have to produce alot of docs here and there to get admitted to those renown Uni in US.

MBA can be done without any degree as long as you hv working experience in business sec. Anyways, why do you want a MBA if you hv ACCA?

good school requires you to have not only working experience or relevant experience... but management experience...

not having a degree is not a problem.. more of a obstacle that can be overcome

Cause I personally think ACA is more towards accounting side and more focused. But MBA gives an overall view about business and it's more valuable for business leaders like ceo or higher management levels.

Besides, MBA can result in big jump in salary! hahahaa

in bold, thats not true.

biz leaders take EMBA.... not really about learning more about networking

This post has been edited by patryn33: Jun 10 2010, 11:23 PM

Wow EMBA? that's Executive MBA, i know oni after googled..haha unheard off

means it's better than MBA? But i checked out the rankings and its kinda weird, 1st place is a business school in hong kong, instead of harvard or london business school or wharton..

MBA is not all about account. It is about the other things in business.

same la...

thts why its call Master in Business Admin instead of Master in Accounting .....i find MBA is still not tht major as the thing learn are still consider wide

I see tht local U can enroll for MBA course with enough working experience even though no degree background but it require ur company manager/someone to recommend u and the application form and procedure is different coz need to go thru interview again.

Looks like things are hard if without higher education nowdays .....

yes uc an..but it would not be necessary..better to get a second degree and widen ur scope of career.

can one get job after ACCA ????

I think ideally you do the degree first. ACCA/ACA is professional paper which cater working adults who own practical experience, those questions in the exam wil be more towards in the real transactions / issues in actual business context. Well, the passing rate is rather low.

To take ACCA/ACA as entry into postgraduate programme, it is highly subject to the individual university. This will lead you spend more time to source and check from door to door. Some may request you to do bridging courses prior entry the programme, and some is not entertain you. ACCA will be more favor for UK based university which give you some exemptions.

Hope this help.

cloud_nine is right.

Some universities may not deem ACCA as a recognised pre-requisite qualification for entrance into a Master degree programme.

Some universities may accept it, some may not.

This is because ACCA is not an academic qualification. It's a professional qualification. This is one of the reason why ACCA came out with the OBU scheme to provide opportunities to ACCA students and graduates to gain an academic qualification in addition to the ACCA professional qualification.

Heriot Watt University Malaysia MBA programme takes in ACCA holders, and also gives a few paper exemptions(not sure whether 4 or 5 subjects) for ACCA graduates. I think it would be worthwhile to check with them. A friend of mine enrolled onto the 1st batch for the Malaysia campus and this is what i heard from her.