Despite rising costs, SA business schools are trying to minimise the fee pain for MBA students recovering from the earnings impact of two years of Covid.
Market research shows that average MBA fees are still below where they were at the start of 2020, before the pandemic struck. Schools cut fees in 2021 after programmes moved online. A partial rebalancing this year has not quite wiped out the deficit: in 2020, the average price of part-time and modular MBA programmes was R221,512. Now it’s R214,711...