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I actually think very few go from undergrad to their mba without work experience. Look at the average years experience for top grad schools. It is normally 3+ y

I actually think very few go from undergrad to their mba without work experience. Look at the average years experience for top grad schools. It is normally 3+ years on average. I am about to go to Notre Dame for an MBA and I have just under 3. It is all great to pick on people who have a business undergrad and mba, but sometimes in life people don't know what they want to do at the undergrad level. I did not start my business undergrad thinking I would get an MBA, but it becomes the logical career move later on. I am way excited for where I am going now with it, but double business isn't inherently a bad thing in some industries. For me I want to get more into tech, so I am teaching myself rails. People always talk about learning business on their own, why can't someone also learn programming on their own?

gaius 16y ago
It's often business degree -> analyst at a bank or consultancy -> MBA -> associate at bank or consultancy -> industry job when it becomes apparent that partnership isn't on the horizon. The problem with MBAs of this type is that they believe management is a universal function that can be applied directly to any industry. The real world is more subtle than that.
- nileshtrivedi 16y ago
  As long as the recruiters keep believing that "management is a universal function that can be applied directly to any industry", students can hardly be blamed for it.
  - ojbyrne 16y ago
    Actually I think that's true, but it takes experience to gain sufficient humility to know that you have to respect the differences in domains. Obviously (for example) manufacturing is different from software, but motivating people, managing costs, solving customer problems - those are universal.