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Or how about the student can sit through the whole class to sample it? That's what I did. I got to sample pretty much everything. And I didn't need to traipse out to another subject after 30 minutes - I could just go to the next full lecture of the second subject.

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Which works fine for undergraduate courses that meet for three one-hour weekly sessions. This doesn't really work when you are trying to choose between 3 conflicting options that meet for one three-hour session a week all at the same time, as is often the case with MBA/MPP programs.

You assume I was referring to undergrad class?

In my experience most lectures are closer to 1 hour than 3. For BS, MS, even PhD.

Do I understand you correctly that MBA classes are particularly freakishly timetabled?

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