<p>The other day when I was looking through my undergraduate catalog for something, I saw that my school has a five-year Bachelor's/MBA program. Your first three years are spent completing your major (any major other than accounting, finance, management, and marketing, which are offered through the business school) and gen. ed. requirements. The next two years are spent on the MBA, but the fourth year still counts as your last undergraduate year so you'd be paying undergraduate rates.</p>
<p>What benefits does completing such a program have?</p>
<p>completion of entire school in only 5 years (possibly save you money),
good option if you can't get a good job out of undergrad</p>
<p>That being said, I still think the negatives probably far outweigh the positives (ie not a top business school, coming out of MBA program with no work experience). I recommend asking your career center for starting salaries of people that do this option and also the starting salaries of those from undergrad in your area of interest. If there is not a significant difference I would not do it (and if they can not tell you the answers to those questions, I would not do it).</p>
<p>Also, how many people are accepted into this program? If only a few are accepted that would be better IMO.</p>
<p>m<em>q</em>r, if this program has been around for a while, find out from the placement office, where the graduates are working. Also contact some alums to find out what their experience finding a job has been like.</p>
<p>I think it's important to find out from your university if anyone has ever done this before? I remember I saw the same exact program from my university as a computer science major. Then when I asked my comp. sci. advisors about this program, they told me nobody had ever completed it before because it was too demanding. It took graduates an average of four years and one quarter to finish just the undergrad program. This was a few years ago but it's worth noting that it might exist, but may not actually be practical.</p>
<p>When I was in school a long while back, I did a joint MS/MBA program. It had been around for a while with only a few people that finished the program because it was hard to do.</p>