An Alternative to the MBA

Graduate School
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<p>I have 5 years of working experience in the technical side of the engineering industry, and now is thinking to make a change and cross over to the financial side of engineering, such as project finance/corporate finance and etc. I am planning to get a MBA to help me to make the career change, however, I find out that there is something call master in finance, an alternative to the MBA in the market. I would like to know how can those - so call “Alternative to the MBA” to help me make the change by comparing to traditional MBA? </p>

<p>When people have a career change, how do they answer the question, “What kind of salary you are expecting” during an interview?</p>

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<p>MS in Finance is a real finance oriented curriculum. It may be a bit too specialized for what you want to do. Have you looked at a Masters in Engineering Management program? I did that and it was the perfect balance of engineering and MBA topics. Most of the courses are actually the core MBA classes, but have some engineering twist.</p>

<p>For the salary question - I’d recommend searching similar jobs at similar companies or monster, etc and using that as your salary base in a new career. You dont want to undervalue yourself, even in a new career so stay around the average.</p>