<p>Does anyone know about the Engineering Management degree at Stanford?</p>
<p>For someone who wants to eventually run an engineering company, will a BA/Masters in this major be better than a traditional engineering degree followed by an MBA?</p>
<p>correction BS/MS</p>
<p>My degree is basically engineering management. I am not familiar with Stanford's program, but I assume it has somewhat similar classes. If you want to run an engineering company, you could do it either way.</p>
<p>If you want my opinion, though, I would suggest getting an engineering degree & following it up with an MBA. Just my observation, but it seems like the ivy MBA is what really helps people get into the top jobs in engineering firms. The engineering undergrad is important because you really should know your business ... and if engineering is the business you are heading, you should know it well.</p>
<p>But you can do it either way. It's up to you. I didn't like engineering itself, so for me, the engineering management was the way to go. Different strokes for different folks.</p>
<p>The Technology and Management program at the University of Illinois is an ideal program for an individual who is interested in combining the business and engineering disciplines. It is highly respected by academics and future employers and is being used as a model by other universities that want to add the option.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techmgmt.uiuc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.techmgmt.uiuc.edu/</a></p>
<p>Tambone, it is more an economics and business degree. If engineering is your main interest, you can get a BS in your engineering field at Stanford and a MS at Stanford in Management Science. If you do it though their coterm option, you can complete both degrees in 4-5 years.</p>
<p>It's not ABET accredited. (That doesn't mean it's not a high quality program of course).</p>