MBA right after undergrad?

collegemom3717
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:29:14 +0000

fladadK4Q:

In this case, would going directly into an MBA program make more sense?

No.

I agree with @Mwfan1921: plenty of newly qualified engineers go straight into consulting, with the aim of going into finance / etc. Consulting firms like their quant skills & discipline.

No matter how clever your son is, not only will he have trouble getting into a good MBA w/o experience, even if he does get in he won’t get good value out of it. I am currently watching this year’s crop of Harvard and MIT MBA students, and you can pick out the tiny number who came straight through from UG. They have dazzling CVs, with some pretty impressive internships & projects (which is how they got in), but their classmates complain that that they can’t pull their weight in group projects and their lecturers complain about the extra support they need.

These students will complete the program, so you might think ‘what’s the harm’- but I know from my own MBA experience that my classmates who came straight through (this was a million years ago when it was less uncommon) all say that they wish that they had waited b/c they would have gotten more out of it. A good MBA is a big investment of time & $. Rushing it is not a good long term strategy.