<p>So I've heard of many people that get a bachelor's degree in Engineering then move on to get their MBA at a graduate school? Can anyone explain to me how that works and why people do it?</p>
<p>It works fine. MBA programs don’t care what you majored in for undergrad.</p>
<p>Most of the time, I speculate that people do it because they realize that engineers just have high starting salaries but find themselves on a career path that tops out somewhere in the 100ks, so they are trying to transition into management. If you go to an average MBA program, you will probably just end up managing engineers and tech/industry company corporate jobs. However, at the top programs you will have a lot of opportunities in high finance or consulting available, so the engineers that do make the switch into something like finance probably stumbled into it and did so for the money.</p>
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<p>“just” :lol:</p>
<p>there’s a lot worse places to be, not all of us get an MBA for high finance</p>
<p>Sorry. I guess managing engineering projects would be great for someone interested in engineering. I’d much rather do venture capital or something, personally, but that’s why I did finance undergrad and not engineering. :)</p>