<p>guys can you get business career with engineering degree such as mechanical engineering?
How is the salary? Any ever went through this?</p>
<p>This is certainly a career path but if you start from an engineering degree, you might want to start your career on the engineering side, then get an MBA and move more into management. Knowing the engineering side of the business can be very valuable for a manager.</p>
<p>Wait if i want to get an mba and business career, don’t I have to do something related to business while in college? What about research and internship? Should I get one that’s related to engineering instead of business? I am actually planning to go to the grad school and if I need change my major to business when I go to grad school in order to take this path, i would gladly do it.</p>
<p>If you want to go to business school right after undergrad, it is not a problem and you do not need to take any business courses. Business schools like to have applicants with strong quantitative skills, such as engineers.</p>
<p>Just curious; why study engineering (a tough major) when you really want business? </p>
<p>What exactly are your career ideas? </p>
<p>More info is needed to give you meaningful advice.</p>
<p>goflvhxj963: what kind of business career? Sales-Marketing, Advertising, Accounting, Finance and Banking ? if any of these then you dont need any Engineering degree. All you gotta do is go to business school for undergraduate.</p>
<p>IF you want to do MBA then you just go straight from any undergraduate majors to MBA; you dont need any Engineering degree to go MBA.</p>
<p>IF you get Engineering degree (undergraduate) then go for MBA, you can do it too. But why? what’s the purpose?..planning to work for investment banking as analyst? </p>
<p>IF you just want to do Sales and Marketing, you do not need Engineering degree. IF you just want to do Accounting then you have to major in Accounting (undergraduate). </p>
<p>If you want to be a top manager at Boeing, IBM, any big manufacturing companies then yes you get Engineering degree then work and make a career with the company for 4 or 5 years after that go for MBA for management purposes.</p>
<p>That’s just my two cents…</p>
<p>Engineering to business is a great career path. The analytical skills you learn as an engineer are invaluable to businesses. My cousin just retired as the CFO of one of the most well respected/known companies in the US and she is counseling my daughter, currently a junior in high school, on career paths. DD has expressed in interest in business and Cousin has urged her not to get an undergraduate business degree but rather to get a degree in Engineering and follow that with an MBA. According to an article in Forbes in 2011, 33% of CEOs of S&P 500 companies have engineering degrees. Only 11% have business degrees.</p>
<p>The question is do you go to MBA after getting Engineering degree? Or you go to work for a couple of years and get an experience with your Eng. Degree then get an MBA for career purposes? </p>
<p>Personally, I will not go to MBA after getting my ME degree since I have heard that the recruiter will ask you why you want to work in an entry level Engineering field with the MBA degree? over qualified?..</p>
<p>"why you want to work in an entry level Engineering field with the MBA degree? over qualified?.. "</p>
<p>Overqualified? No, definitely not overqualified for an entry level engineering position. The real question would be whether you really want to do engineering? If so, why did you get the MBA?</p>
<p>I hired a couple of dual engineering and business majors. Was always a disaster. Never do that again (although it is really a moot point as I am now retired). The person was always wanting to do “management” work and not the engineering (for which they were hired to do). </p>
<p>The knowledge gained in a typical business degree is not the same that one needs to be an “engineering manager”. An engineering manager needs; knowledge of his technical field enough to do cost and time estimating of the engineering job, scheduling and oversight skills to see that the job is being done with cost and schedule, people skills to help the unit function as a “team”, do performance reviews, etc. The National Management Association has classes that teach these skills. However, you always need to learn the engineering first. You don’t need to be the best engineer to become the manager but you do need to acquire enough “engineering judgement” to survive.</p>
<p>I have seen friends of mine get their MBAs after working for a while in engineering. However, at the completion of the MBA their careers usually take a big turn, if they are to use the MBA. One went into marketing within the company, another went into finance. They were good engineers and were good in their new fields also. Their new career paths would put them in better position to become the CEO than staying in engineering, IMHO. Definitely an interesting career path if that’s your choice. One just needs to have a plan on where they want to go, evaluate its risks/rewards, and then execute their plan.</p>