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Hello all,
My name is Ryan, and I have been contemplating returning for an MBA degree for over a year. However, I have some reservations. I have read many articles stating than an MBA degree has become "obsolete." Thoughts? Has anyone else struggled with this?
My top 2 MBA contenders are WGU and Patten U.
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You will find articles that claim every degree is dead or dying. There are far too many unemployed, educated people who believe their degree is the reason they can't find work. You have to make your own way. If you are in a position that an MBA will help you advance then go for it. It is kind of like hunting. You could walk into the woods and start shooting, and you may hit something. On the other hand, you could go into the woods and set your sights on a nice big buck and then shoot. In the second case you are far more likely to be successful. I believe education is the same. Set your sights on what you want to do and build your education and experience around that goal. If an MBA advances that goal, it doesn't matter what the journalism majors have to say about it.
Now that I am finished sounding high and mighty, let me say that I approach my education like a child at a carnival. The goals are moving like targets across a shooting gallery and I just keep moving from one to the other with the 203 credits to show for it. :confused:
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The degree is not obsolete. The degree is saturated in the job market with just about every school offering an MBA program, there are more and more MBA graduates and the once lucrative return on investment is gone. With that said, search many business job postings, especially mid career postings and you will see "MBA preferred" on many of them. So an MBA, being so abundant, is basically a qualifier in the job market to just make it to the interview. Of course, this is all dependent on the career you are pursuing.
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Pr sort of nails it. The MBA, or at least a Masters degree is the norm for executive level positions and for those that aspire to them. You have RN in your screen name so I assume you work in health care. I work for a pretty large urban hospital system and I can tell you that they most value an MBA or MSN at the directors level or above. The MBA has proven the most valuable overall with a few RN's choosing that route over MSN and seeing career success with it.
I will add that if your already well into your career it may not matter much where the Masters comes from. No one ever talks much about where they went to school, but they put the initials for the degree behind their names and make their advanced education known...its part of how the game gets played here.
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Prloko Wrote:The degree is not obsolete. The degree is saturated in the job market with just about every school offering an MBA program, there are more and more MBA graduates and the once lucrative return on investment is gone. With that said, search many business job postings, especially mid career postings and you will see "MBA preferred" on many of them. So an MBA, being so abundant, is basically a qualifier in the job market to just make it to the interview. Of course, this is all dependent on the career you are pursuing.
It's the same thing with a bachelor's administration. There are probably tens of thousands of jobs out there that require or prefer a bachelor's in business administration, but there are also a few hundred thousand people graduating with that degree each year. Business administration has a few times more graduates than the second most popular major.
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I imagine most members on the forum would agree that career advancement is largely based on having a good work ethic and more importantly who you know. But before any of that matters, you have to get your foot in the door and if you think a Masters will be the next step for you in your career path it seems like a not brainer.
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The BS/BA and a master (MBA/MS/MA) gets you in the door - some of the automated HR screening programs look for it and you can't get to a live person unless you have it.
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Thanks everyone for your thoughts/advice/input. I am currently in lower level management, and I have a Master's Degree in Nursing Leadership/Management. My end goal is administration. I was thinking that an MBA degree would nicely compliment my MSN degree. My two direct supervisors both have MBA degrees. Further thoughts?
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