Both can be good degrees.  I ended up going with the MPA after talking to people in both the Buisness and Political Science departments here at ASU.  I found
that the backgrounds and research areas of the MPA faculty more closely matched my interests and needs than the MBA program.  If you are not sure, talk to the
faculty at both programs, and check out their publications to see what the emphasis is of the programs you are interested in.  I also found that looking at peroidicals
and books in the libray gave more information about the research interests of the departments (especially see if they are collecting recent books on non-profit
administration: this will tell you what the faculty are requesting for their current work, and if the school will have the resources for your work).

1/31/2002 12:17:29 PM, Crystal Baranowski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>To those on the more administrative side of things:
>
>If a person were planning on staying on the administrative side (management,
>development, marketing, membership, etc.) of museum life and a MA in Arts
>Administration was not an option, but both an MBA and MPA were, which route
>would you go and why?  The pros and cons that I come up with for each tend
>to balance the scales and put me right back where I started.
>
>Crystal L. Baranowski


James H Tichgelaar
Assistant Director
Arkansas State University Museum
http://museum.astate.edu

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." (Laurie Anderson)

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