MBA from Hellenic American University (HAU)

[sanantone]

Your argument has some merit in context of someone with min. work experience in their field, late 20's-early 30's looking to use a MBA to advance.

For someone with experience, advancing within their company or gov type employment these work fine. I suggested this to a  friend later 30's with a decade plus at one of the largest insurance companies, he got a $1.50 an hour raise upon enrollment and will get an extra $2 when he graduates (along with points towards promotions). They will also reimburse him when finished. This $3,000 MBA will have given him a $3,000 raise a year for enrolling, $7,280 raise after grad, even if nothing else changes.

At 54 and a student on this myself, I promise you that very few people have more contacts in my industry than I do, and not doing this MBA to get contacts.

Yes. I would say it's more for people in their 20's and 30's, but your'e right. After you been in the workforce for awhile the alma mater doesn't matter.

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The MBA is the go-to management degree, and management is everywhere. Unlike accounting, there isn't a focus on a handful of companies. I would say that law is the most elitist industry outside of academia.

Accounting is extremely useful though and I would argue that the alma mater for accounting degrees hardly matters. Warren Buffer graduated from Nebraska which is a good school, but hardly a head turner. I think accounting is a bit like engineering where is considered to be a hard degree to get and therefore people consider a degree in that field to be meaningful. But when it comes to the MBA is no secret that even people that go to IVY's spend all their time drinking and socializing in those programs, and there's hardly any homework. If you want to learn you'll be better off launching Coursera and starting a small business. MBA's are for networking and social drinking, which ties back to the brand... since it matters who're your drinking with.

Where you go to school matters of you're trying to work for the Big 4, but that can be said about many major companies in several fields. The Big 4 and major law firms are just the pickiest. As for management positions, the MBA checks the box with a lot of employers that don't care about prestige or can't afford a graduate from a top MBA program.