<p>What majors do most MBA applicants at top schools have? Could you get into a top school if you study something unrelated to business like pharmacy?</p>
<p>Why the hell would you go through pharmacy school for 6 years and then opt to get an MBA?</p>
<p>Well there's always corporate pharmacy, like the business aspect of it at the pharmaceutical companies like pfizer or J and J. Just like tech companies like you to have engineering BS + MBA, some of the pharmaceutical companies like their people to have Pharm.D's and MBA's. It's good background if you want to work for one of those companies. However, an MBA won't help you much in retail pharmacy, like at the back of CVS or Walgreens.</p>
<p>If pharmacy was just an example and you want to know if you can do something unrelated in general, it's fine. Just get work experience and a high GPA.</p>
<p>Pharmacy is a great major to compliment an MBA. I loaned out a book that described (in chapters) different types of pharmacists. One type, the industrial, had an MBA.</p>
<p>Would a MBA help you in a retail pharmacy if you wanted to be a manager or something?</p>
<p>It's really for industrial (corporate) pharmacy. You don't need an MBA for retail. I know someone working in Walgreens right out of Rutgers' 6-year pharmacy program, and she's making close to $100,000. She only has the Pharm.D and no MBA. It's not necessary.</p>
<p>Is your friend a district manager? Wouldn't a MBA make you more attractive for corporate positions in retail?</p>
<p>An MBA to become a retail pharmacy store manager...lol...that is just as stupid as going to college to become an entrepreneur</p>
<p>theres is actually a major call entrepreneur. is MBA for retail pharmacy store manager an overkill? what about if you want to go corporate in retail?</p>
<p>for corporate retail, I would believe management would be the most appropriate major...I mean its not rocket science what the district managers of retail chains do...a lot of it is lost prevention and motivational stuff...i have worked with the district manager of Best Buy for Los Angeles County on a promotion and he told me most of what I am doing is making sure the stores are making a profit and how to grow that profit...so its a little bit of everything...management, advertising and marketing</p>
<p>what about administration, finance, or EXECUTIVE MBA? is that the best way to make it to the top?</p>
<p>Well EMBA isn't for "normal" people. Normal people would get regular full-time or part-time MBA's. EMBA's are only for more experienced businesspeople, like people already at the top who don't have an MBA yet. </p>
<p>Pharmacy hiring is good at retail level, and it pays well. It's not like i-banking where not even well qualified people always make it. If you have a Pharm.D, that by itself will make you attractive. Of course MBA is always good to have for almost anything, but you have to figure out if it's worth it or not. I say it's not worth it simply because you can be a very competitive applicant w/o it. It probably won't be a worthwhile investment. Maybe you could get your foot into the door at a retail chain like Walgreens, then see if you should get an MBA afterwards. After all, you need work experience.</p>
<p>About my friend, I don't know if she's manager or not, but I think all pharmacists are "managers" from the beginning in retail. She has technicians working under her, and it hasn't been long since she graduated. The technicians probably don't even have Pharm.D. I could be wrong, but I believe that is what she told me. I might be able to find out for you.</p>
<p>juz curious, with engineering+mba becoming so popular now, is it still worth, in the sense that it no longer seems to give one the 'edge' as it did years ago..... is it true or am i juz deluded.... :p</p>
<p>thanks, i guess you probably don't need an MBA for managing technicians. but it might be useful if you make it to the top. do you know the percentage of pharmacist getting MBA's? because I know its become common for engineers to get MBA's.</p>
<p>Most techs dont have a pharm.d. I work at a pharmacy and to be honest being a tech is not difficult at all. I know my pharmacist didnt bother to get his MBA because he was pretty sure of pulling in 100k+ without one.</p>
<p>SSJ has no intention of going through pharmacy school or even going to a top MBA program, read what this person, or their other names have said in the other boards. This person is playing a game.</p>
<p>I read through some of his other posts, and what you said seems unlikely.</p>
<p>I am not the only who thinks this many other members have told me this. This is based on the fact that other people have said same strange things he has said.</p>
<p>if pharmacists don't need MBA, then why do so many engineers get MBA's?</p>