<p>Looking over threads in CC, i see that doing an engineering undergrad coupled with an MBA is a good foundation to your career.</p>
<p>What i dont understand is how one goes about in getting an MBA from an engineering jobs. I had always thought that engineering jobs were purely science jobs. If this is true how does, how does a purely science job help you get into an MBA program. I always assumed that you need management/business experience for a MBA.</p>
<p>All engineering firms are businesses. Their goal is to make money; the engineering designs are just a means of achieving that.</p>
<p>Take the GMAT, get letters of recommendation and apply! Your undergrad grades (if you are recently graduated) and your work experience will be factors in admission, too.</p>
<p>If I understand you correctly, you’re saying that you’re planning to get your engineering degree, get a job and at some time thereafter, get your MBA on either a part-time night school basis or to leave the job and go full-time for the MBA. I don’t hear you saying that you’d like to get your undergrad engineering and go directly for the MBA. Right?</p>
<p>This scenario is not difficult. There are a million MBA programs for working adults now and the jobs and undergrad degrees of the participants is not, as far as I know, relevant. Most advice I’ve read and heard suggests that you definitely work for a time before getting the MBA; doesn’t matter whether you’re an engineer or accountant. The MBA is a stand-alone business degree – it’s not necessary to have had any undergrad business courses.</p>
<p>I did exactly this. I was working as a quality engineer years ago when I became interested in marketing. My employer paid for my three year night program and I got my MBA. I left the company once it became clear that it would take years to get into marketing. Getting the MBA does represent a change in career path, of course. There’s no point in getting a business degree if you’re happy on the technical side of a company.</p>
<p>^ Although I know some engineering project managers who seem to blend technical and business aspects.</p>
<p>@beastman - I agree with you about how the MBA is not very useful if you like the technical position. However, the MBA does provide you with background for management positions in a technical field, which many people I know use it.</p>
<p>I know one student out of the college where I m going who worked at GE for 2 years as an aeronautical engineer (pretty technical) after getting his bachelors degree. He was very strong and he got into Harvard Business School, Stanford, Cornell, Wharton, etc. Work experience is critical to many of these MBA’s and what better way to get a job than with an engineering degree. Even today, Obama is encouraging Americans to pursue engineering. Just because GE is bankrupt does not mean engineering is dead.</p>