Academics
Based at Florida Southern College, in Lakeland, Florida, the Barney Barnett School of Business & Free Enterprise is a small, “well-connected” school with an “excellent” and “amazing” MBA director who “seems to know all the students personally and is vested in their success.” Students praise the school’s “small classroom size, “involved administration,” and “prestige.” The school’s “symbiotic” partnerships “enhance both the business school and [local] community organizations.” The “thoroughly vetted” faculty shows strong “leadership and experience” and are both “responsive” and “easy to work with.” Florida Southern MBA students often choose Barnett for its “excellent” hybrid program, which offers coursework every other Saturday on campus and the remainder online.