From my perspective, as well as that of a good friend who obtained an MBA from Pepperdine, MBA's are most useful if they come with two things: A non-trivial am

From my perspective, as well as that of a good friend who obtained an MBA from Pepperdine, MBA's are most useful if they come with two things: A non-trivial amount of work in the domain of interest and, preferably, a degree in a related discipline. In his case he had a Physics degree from Oxford and worked in various industries for 20+ years before entering the MBA program. We'd have lunch a few times a month. He would, almost always, lead the conversation with "You are not going to believe the nonsense...". Not to say that the education was worthless, quite to the contrary. What he found was that students who were on the academic train and never stopped to work in the real world came to the program almost completely devoid of context and perspective. He was fond of saying an MBA was useless without real-world experience and was glad it took him so long to get to entering this program.