MBA right after undergrad?

RichInPitt
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:45:50 +0000

spacey11:

how did you get your company to pay for it? did you just say " hey I want my MBA" or did they want you to get it?

Back in ye olden days it was a standard corporate benefit (I was at Westinghouse at the time). There was probably a form to fill out for approval, but yes, it was pretty much just “I miss school, I think I’ll go back” and they OK’d it.

This was something like early January when I decided to do it. I took the GMAT as a space-available standby at the end of January, applied by the Feb. 1 deadline and started at what is now Tepper in May. It was certainly much less rigorous/planned out than what I see in today’s admissions.

I’m sure they saw it as an investment in their people, but there was no requirement to remain as an employee. As it turns out, they closed down our division as I was 3/4 of the way through, the “re-training” severance benefit just about paid for my one last semester as I switched to full-time, and I had a consulting job once I finished. It worked out pretty well.