<p>Is this possible and/or common? I mean, it seems like a good idea since it only takes 6 to 8 years at most to get a Doctorate in pharmacy (PharmD). With that alone, you could earn a pretty sweet salary of about $100k, but if you pursue an MBA after earning the PharmD, wouldn't there be more opportunities like working for big pharmaceutical companies? I just wanted to know if this was a plausible and/or common thing to do.</p>
<p>No need for MBA. People will hire you for your Pharm D, not MBA unless you want to do something entirely non-pharmaceutical related.</p>
<p>But wouldn’t a PharmD + MBA be valued at pharmaceutical companies, for example?</p>
<p>In a pharmaceutical company, you will be hired to for your PharmD, not MBA. Having an MBA will not get you an upper level job unless you have more than 10 years of PharmD experience. Just to get in the door will not require an MBA.</p>
<p>MBA is not an useful degree without at least 4-5 years of work experience.</p>
<p>You need to complete a fellowship if you are interested in the pharmaceutical industry. Afterwards, an MBA may be in your interest depending on what functino you are in. </p>
<p>You don’t really need an MBA in … medical affairs, medical science liason, regulatory affairs, etc.</p>
<p>An MBA may be useful in … business development, marketing, market research</p>
<p>MBA is useful for a pharmacist who wants to be management in a healthcare institution. For example, if you were a pharmacist who wanted to be a hospital department head or regional manager for retail, the MBA would pave the way for that. </p>
<p>MBA might be valuable for some pharmaceutical industry jobs such as marketing, etc. If you are interested in drug development or research, you probably want to spend you time on a PhD. I look at PharmD as more of a clinical/dispensing degree.</p>
<p>Ya, mba would not be useful for you right now. If you get an mba work in pharma and hate it, you throw away your opportunity to switch careers in your mba</p>