Effect of  cost on the quality of MBA programmes in Ugandan  Universities

Wilson Muyinda, Mande

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dc.contributor.author	Wilson Muyinda, Mande
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-10T08:11:31Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-10T08:11:31Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	Mande, W. M. (2009) Effect of cost on the quality of MBA programmes in Ugandan Universities, Makerere Journal of Higher Education (MAJOHE)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://pub.nkumbauniversity.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/507
dc.description	Research paper	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The current study set out to assess the effect of cost on the quality of Master of Business Administration [MBA] programmes in Ugandan Universities using a hypothesised model. The research was carried out in six universities of Makerere, the Islamic University in Uganda, Nkumba, Ndejje, Makerere Business School and Uganda Martyrs University. A purposely designed questionnaire was distributed to 100 students in the six universities. The findings showed that: one, there were significant differences [F (5, 44) = 3.606, P<0.01] among the universities as far as the cost of the MBA was concerned; two, 19% of students’ academic work was influenced by cost; three, the academic work alone explained 32% of the quality of the MBA; four, in order to prove whether quality of the MBA is a function of cost or q = f (c), a path analysis was done. The hypothesised model revealed that 68% of the quality of the MBA was dependent on cost. So a quality MBA requires substantial financial input. Given the above resultant statistic, this study recommended that all universities in Uganda carry out appropriate costing of all academic programmes in order to have quality. The second recommendation was student loan scheme be introduced by government to enable students with financial hardship to borrow money and complete their courses	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Makerere Journal of Higher Education (MAJOHE)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Vol. 2;
dc.subject	MBA	en_US
dc.subject	Uganda	en_US
dc.subject	Universities	en_US
dc.title	Effect of cost on the quality of MBA programmes in Ugandan Universities	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US