<p>^ what your friend is referring to is the fact that engineering students learn technical skills in school that are required to do the job. Someone with a management degree can’t do the work of a chemical engineer because they don’t have the technical expertise. By contrast, the skills learned by a management major are largely soft skills, which can often be picked up on the job.</p>
<p>However, your friend is kidding himself if he thinks he can get any business job because he has an engineering degree. The reason so many engineers go back to get their MBA is largely based on a large number of them getting stuck in dead end engineering jobs.</p>