I misunderstood then, sorry, but I've had a stream of nothing but nitpicking from the community lately. The answer to your question is, "it depends". It depend

I misunderstood then, sorry, but I've had a stream of nothing but nitpicking from the community lately. The answer to your question is, "it depends". It depends on their socioeconomic class and how many MBAs they know. It might also depend on how much class/profession specific resentment they feel towards MBA holders. The poor are going to universally consider anyone with a business-oriented graduate degree to be rich, to a fault. There's little deviation you're going to find there unless you encounter the occasional circumspect/self-educated exception. The middle class would probably vary wildly, depending on who they associated with. (A lot of the middle class don't associate with people of their exact quintile, so a lot of it's going to depend on whether they're looking up or down.) No hard answers for you though.