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You might want to re-explore your opportunity cost. At any top educational program, you'll get better competition and coaching from professors, peers, and alum
by caminante 10y ago
You might want to re-explore your opportunity cost.
At any top educational program, you'll get better competition and coaching from professors, peers, and alumni access than self-teaching. At most MBA programs, you can take accelerated courses or skip re-learning skills.
- mdorazio 10y agoBetter with respect to what? I'm referring specifically to the classes and associated academic knowledge, not to other aspects of the program.
- caminante 10y agoI'm not referring to other aspects of the program, either. > "you'll get better ... coaching from professors, peers, and alumni access than self-teaching." Not all of the academic knowledge is in the textbook. If I want to learn anything, I know the best way to learn is to get great coaching and a great curriculum. The unbundled (self-teaching) route is harder to navigate successfully, though, everyone thinks they're the exception!
- mdorazio 10y agoI'm going to have to disagree with you on that one. If you want to learn anything, the best way by far is to learn by actually doing it. The perfect example is languages - you learn far faster and more thoroughly by immersing yourself in the language and using it every day than you do by learning in an academic setting, great coaching or not. Many business topics are the same way - you will learn much more by actually applying the knowledge to real-world problems than by working through textbooks and case studies. When hiring people, I and my peers vastly prefer demonstrated hands-on experience to any equivalent amount of academic knowledge.