Just completed my MBA in Houston this summer!

In 2005, I moved to Houston for a job with an engineering company. Ever since watching Michael J Fox (Canadian) sleep his way to the top of the coprorate world in his 1986 film "the secret of my success", I knew i wanted to have a business career, but got suckered into doing engineering to show that I was "just as smart as my engineering sister", who has also seen the error of her ways and is back at UBC doing medical school.

So, with that in mind, after one year in Houston, I wrote my GMAT, and entered the University of Houston MBA program at the Cinco Ranch campus. After one year at this pathetic school, I realized that the quality of American univerities varies much more than it does in Canada.

With that in mind, I switched gears and attended the University of Houston Main campus. 2 years after starting the part time MBA program, I have finally completed it.

If anyone want's to know more, just respond to the blog posting.

Doing an MBA as a Canadian can be very expensive, depending on your visa status. It turns out that if you are on a TN visa, you need to pay international student rates (at UH Main campus, this is ~$60K for the program). If you are on an H1-B visa, you can do it at the "in-state-tuition" rate (~$30K). I was on a TN visa to start, so I switched to an H1B for this purpose.

UH has many options, I took all my electives in energy courses ->energy value chain, energy trading, carbon trading, investment analysis involving climate change and carbon trading, mergers and acquisitions in the energy business, and project finance. -UH Bauer college is a very good school -not as good as UBC, but still, pretty good. Our project finance professor was the ex CFO of Exxon, so there are some heavy hitters teaching there.

-Philip Henderson