<p>Hello:
I'm a senior in chemical eng, and I'm still analyzing what to do next. I haven't decided if a want to continue in chem Eng (environmental) or go into the management area. Which area will give me more advantages?? I recently heard about engineering management, is it better than an MBA, which one do you recomend and why.</p>
<p>check out the thread on graduate school forum titled "engineering management"</p>
<p>If this is an issue for you, then you should seriously consider one of those dual MBA + Master's in engineering programs. For example, the MIT LFM program, or the Northwestern Kellogg MMM program or the Michigan TMI program.</p>
<p>Agree w/ sakky....a number of such programs out there, those sakky mentioned plus Dartmouth, Penn, George Washington, UMd & many more.</p>
<p>A big issue for many in selecting between a normal MBA program and one more engineering management oriented is BRAND value versus learning. If you end up in a management role in a company (say, for instance, a Fortune 500 company) that values a branded MBA, then this route might be better. If you, on the other hand, are interested purely in content, & that content is management in an engineering-intensive or technology-intensive organization, then definitely look at the engineering management and similar "management of technology" masters programs. This content is more tailored to learning in that specific area, although an MBA will certainly cover many of these areas as well. Engineering management oriented programs are often combined with the university's business school & engineering school.</p>
<p>this is also a good post which touches on some of these issues:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=76772%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=76772</a>
......it discusses the choices between the technical & management tracks...an issue you are grapling with. I'm biased, however.....if you have the will & curiosity to outwardly discuss this dilemna, in my experience you should go MANAGEMENT.</p>
<p>BTW, I'm also in the environmental arena, so feel free to PM about your choices....I've been through the same thing myself & now help many in my company with similar decisions & planning.</p>
<p>ps.....one other route is to find an employer who will pick up (pay for) your masters program. we do this all of the time (MSE or MBA for engineers or scientists), as a part-time thing during full-time employment. There are a number of other recent posts about this issue as well.</p>
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one other route is to find an employer who will pick up (pay for) your masters program. we do this all of the time (MSE or MBA for engineers or scientists), as a part-time thing during full-time employment. There are a number of other recent posts about this issue as well.
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<p>If this is of interest to you, I would carefully examine how your employer aims to lock you in (if they do). Many companies implement a policy where if they pay for your degrees, then you are obligated to work for them for X number of years, or else you have to pay them back. Hence, you have to be sure that you can tolerate being locked in for those years. Either that, or they may implement a policy where you are not allowed to use the Career-Services office at that particular part-time MBA program (hence it impairs your ability to jump to a job with some other company). For example, I know at the Haas MBA program, part-time MBA students are allowed to use the Haas Career Services Office only if they submit an official document from their employer attesting to the fact that the employer is either not sponsoring the student, or if it is, then the employer permits that student to use the Career Office. Basically, this protects the company from paying for your MBA only to watch you jump to another company. But of course, jumping to another company is precisely why a lot of people get their MBA's in the first place. </p>
<p>However, if your company doesn't lock you in, and doesn't bar you from using Career Services, then you're golden.</p>