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在职MBA受中层管理人员追捧本文 Stephen Skripak likes to tell prospective students at Virginia Tech about how he earned his MBA at Purdue University in the late 1980s while working as a young executive at General Electric. He was promoted twice in the three years it took him to obtain the part-time degree.斯蒂芬?斯克里帕克(Stephen Skripak)喜欢告诉弗吉尼亚理工大学(Virginia Tech)的潜在学员，在20世纪80年代末，作为通用电气(General Electric)的一名年轻主管，他是如何一边工作一边取得普渡大学(Purdue University)的MBA学位的。在在职攻读MBA学位的三年时间里，他两次获得晋升。“I decided to go that direction because I was already married, we already had a house and my wife’s income wouldn’t have been enough to sustain our lifestyle,” says Prof Skripak, assistant dean of graduate programmes at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin School of Business. “It fitted my circumstances perfectly — and my circumstances are not that different from people today: a single income doesn’t always support the lifestyle, the house payment, the car payment.”“我之所以决定那么做，是因为我已经结婚并买了一栋房子，而凭我妻子一人的收入不足以维持我们的生活开销，”斯克里帕克教授说。他目前担任弗吉尼亚理工大学Pamplin商学院研究生项目副主任。“在职项目非常符合我当时的境况，和现在的人们没多大不同：一个人的收入并不总能负担生活开销、房贷和车贷。”?Prof Skripak is overseeing Pamplin’s transition away from a full-time MBA degree to offer only part-time MBA programmes. Virginia Tech made the decision to go all part-time — offering executive, evening and weekend programmes — last year after watching its full-time MBA applications drop and part-time applications rise for the past three or four years.斯克里帕克教授正在负责将Pamplin商学院从全日制MBA教育转向完全的在职MBA教育。在过去的3到4年间，弗吉尼亚理工大学注意到申请全日制MBA项目的学生人数下降，而申请兼职项目的人数上升，因此学校在去年决定只提供在职教育项目，包括EMBA、晚间班和周末班。“It was simply a numbers game?.?.?.?we’re just kind of going with the market,” says Prof Skripak.“这是个简单的数字游戏……我们仅仅是迎合了市场需求，”斯克里帕克教授说。“People don’t want to give up their jobs in an economy that is this iffy and a great way to get the MBA without having to go back to school [full time] is the part-time or executive (EMBA) programme.”“在这么糟糕的经济形势下，人们不想放弃他们的工作。在职教育或者EMBA项目是一种很好的方式，让人们不用重返校园（全日制）就能拿到MBA学位。”Virginia Tech is not alone. Follow