If you go straight through, maybe you get a small lift. Maybe. $5k. My last company paid that vs undergrad and didn’t see the value in that.
Look at salaries from undergrad to grad.
Take a solid school. IU as they post both.
Marketing undergrad = $66k Mktng is low pay. Average of school = $76.
MBA = $137.
Other schools will have similar disparity.
The odds of getting into a great school sans work experience are slim.
In my class, we had one out of 150 and it was because he was Stanford with a perfect gmat.
Your kid needn’t worry about mba.
He needs to get through school, work a year and then revisit - because you need at least two.
Otherwise you lose what an mba is for :
- More money
- Pivot if you don’t like your career (can’t do this if you already have it)
Schools need you to add to the community and a kid who hasn’t yet lived can’t do that. They don’t have that experience.
Good luck.
Ps when you look at top programs, many have late 20, 30s, even 40+ year old students. But two years is the minimum to get. Most will be 3+.