Getting an MBA after graduating from top undergrad

ferryboat10
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:14:33 +0000

From my personal experience, those prereq classes are not taken at the undergraduate level, that is MBA students do not take these classes with undergrads. There are managerial accounting classes and statistics classes for example for those non business majors at the MBA school. At Wharton, MBA students are actually mixing with undergraduate students.

Some schools offer special 500-level courses for prereqs, for many different reasons: keeping populations separate, different schedules, departmental bureaucracy, etc. Some don’t.
There’s nothing special about those undergraduate classes Wharton MBA students take for prereqs. They are undergraduate classes. Same curriculum as any AACSB school. The only reason why MBA students are taking them is because they did not before and Wharton doesn’t offer a separate section.
Undergraduate Wharton students are not taking MBA classes. And they certainly aren’t taking the strategic management courses and advanced electives offered only in MBA programs.