<p>When I do graduate on my engineering major, how does doing MBA benefit me? Will it help me in anyway?</p>
<p>My goal is to get into management soon, so dunno if that is gonna help.</p>
<p>Don’t get an MBA because it’s useless without a good reason for getting one.
The best way to get into management is by being a good engineer. If you’re doing anything else, you’re doing it wrong.</p>
<p>Some people say it’s great while others have said it’s worthless. Not sure what’s right.</p>
<p>But even if I do get into management, I need the business skills too,so I was thinking MBA will help me to get faster there.</p>
<p>You’re clearly missing the point here.
MBAs are useless until you reach a point at which it would be useful. You’ll find out when that is in the future, but I’ll give you a hint: it’s not right out of school.
And no, you don’t really need a full business education to be in management. More than anything you need to be a good engineer.</p>
<p>Think of it this way: would you like to be managed by a kid with an MBA who has no real on-the-job experience?</p>
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Well, if you get the MBA immediately, before you have any experience, it helps you transition out of the engineering field into something like finance. It will NOT help you get into management in this case because no one wants a manager with ZERO actual experience. It will NOT help you as an engineer because (a) it provides no engineering skills, (b) gives the impression that you are racing too fast towards management, and (c) gives you management training that will degrade and become out of date in the years it will take before someone offers you a management job!</p>
<p>Get some experience, THEN get the MBA…</p>
<p>Basically everything that was said was what I was going to say. I will just add this: Most engineering managers I have worked with (including myself until I went back to being technical) have M.S./M.Eng degrees…not MBA’s.</p>
<p>Some like myself have project management certifications to complement the M.S./M.Eng.</p>