The domain of management education has been well-developed in many countries of the world. However, the scale of MBA programs in the USA is incomparable to the other places. The variety of specialties, the number of schools, the amount of researches, the number of training programs and the popularity of all these have made the management education in the USA remarkably good.

An incredible diversity and an unlimited choice are characteristics of MBA programs in the USA. You can undertake a specialized study in traditional fields, such as Marketing, HR, Finance, General Management etc., and non-conventional ones, such as Market Research, E-security, Hospital Administration, Hospitality Management, Sports Management and several others.

Distinguished for researches ? this is the main feature of Chicago, Columbia and Kellogg MBA programs in the USA. The only feature, which makes them less outstanding than Harvard or Wharton, is their weak international aspect. To eliminate this drawback, the University of Chicago continues to invite the leading economists and finance professors across the globe. Columbia Business School has completed an agreement with London Business School to exchange the faculty and students. Kellogg has developed an executive MBA program with WHU Koblenz in Germany, one of the best management schools in the German-speaking world. All these attempts are aimed at achieving a global profile.

Due to their Ivy League status Darden, Stanford and Tuck draw a high percentage of recruiters, ensuring that newly fledged MBAs get manifold job offers and soaring post-MBA salaries. Nevertheless, all three schools suffer from a rather low number of international students in their class. Thus, heading towards the global nature with both the international faculty and the course contents is the dominant objective of the schools in their struggle to keep pace with Wharton and the prominent European schools.

Stanford is often referred to as the best of the best, primarily due to the opportunity it affords. It does not matter whether you come into class as the most promising young investment banker or as an account's receivable clerk, when you leave Stanford's MBA program, the corporate world will treat you with that special esteem that only Stanford graduates (and the grads of other elite business schools) acquire.

The professors of the world-wide reputation are still drawn to Harvard Business School and MIT, attracted both by the fame and lifestyle. Harvard emphasizes on the case method of teaching, which has both its cons and pros. On the one hand, Harvard cases are still taken for a model in management schools all over the world. On the other, the course's emphasis on e-business is not quite appropriate, particularly from the point of decline in the dotcom popularity. In contrast to Harvard, MIT is generally regarded as having the advanced and up-to-date course contents.

Wharton presents the most outstanding of MBA programs in the USA, as it regards the recruiter demand and popularity. Wharton also paces US schools in terms of using advanced learning methods and delivering the innovative global education, where global implies a different way of thinking, in which national boundaries are ignored.

Most universities offer distance learning MBA courses, which are becoming increasingly available and practical, as advances in the computer technology allow students to learn via the Internet and videoconferencing.