Engineering to 1-year MBA

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<p>Just to clarify, changing career in my context is going from engineering to outside engineering like IB, PE, HF or consulting. Getting a top tier mba which cost 100k+ to change from structural analysis to IT is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. </p>

<p>Changing career is not impossible, but it’s very hard. I know a few civil engineers (former coworkers) who’ve managed to switch to infrastructure PE, one to IB in public finance group, one switched to project finance at european BB, one switched to structured finance/syndicate specializing in infrastructure deals. Heck one doesn’t even have an MBA, just a Harvard MPA. </p>

<p>Changing career is hard is because balancing school, work, family, etc is very challenging. I’m attending a target mba part time so some BB and lots of boutique recruit here. Bain and tier 2 consulting also come here every year. However, it’s EXTREMELY challenging when you have to study cases or study financial modeling/valuations on your own time when you’re married with family and already working 60 hours. </p>

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<p>Sorry rheidzan, but I wasn’t very clear. The person who went from analysis to IT didn’t get an MBA (or any other business degree). I was trying to show an example of someone who made a career change; admittedly not a huge one, but that was the point. The most successful career changes are merely a change in focus rather than a big right turn.</p>