Supply Chain Management after Electrical Engineering.

Graduate School
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<p>I completed my BS in Electrical Engineering in May 2011. Currently I'm working as presales engineer. I really wish to go to grad school. But MS in Electrical Engineering does not interest me. I was thinking of something on the management side, and I thought MS in supply chain management and operations management sounds really interesting.
Now I'm wondering if it’s the right career move. I don’t want to spend money and time on something that will ultimately not add value to my undergrad education. So please, can someone tell if it’s a good direction to move career wise.</p>

<p>Your replies will be really appreciated as I'm very confused regarding this
Thanks</p>

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<p>Hi there,</p>

<p>Funny, I think we’re in a similar boat, but opposite. I am in supply chain consulting now and I am making a switch to electrical engineering starting in the fall for a masters. Did engineering undergrad but not in electrical.</p>

<p>I think supply chain can be learned very easily on the job, and honestly, engineering is absolutely enough to prove you can do supply chain. I certainly had no supply chain background when starting. I don’t know many people who’ve done a MS for supply chain, and yet work in that space still. Warning, some people complain that supply chain is where they send “underperformers” in large companies, but that may be just certain companies or industries.</p>

<p>If you really want to pursue it, check out large consulting firms like Deloitte, KPMG, etc, they have supply chain practices that like hiring (former) engineers.</p>

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<p>It sounds like you are going about this backwards. You said “I really want to go to grad school” and the way you phrased it is giving me the impression that you want to go to graduate school and you’re trying to decide the best program to pursue. That’s the wrong way to go about this - instead, you should be thinking about the kinds of things you want to do in the future, the kinds of jobs you want to have, and then think about the graduate training you need (if any) to do what you want to do.</p>

<p>Also, whether or not a master’s “adds value” to your undergrad education doesn’t matter. What matters is that it gets you the sorts of positions you want to work.</p>