Is it practical to get an MBA degree without any background in business?
February 6, 2010 by College Degree Programs and Certification Tips
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A friend said that without any background in business, getting an MBA is not very practical or useful. It seems that having some background helps you learn the material a lot better when you are getting the degree?
Is it true that without any background, MBA courses are hard to assimilate or hard to turn into knowledge that can be applied?
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A friend said that without any background in business, getting an MBA is not very practical or useful. It seems that having some background helps you learn the material a lot better when you are getting the degree?
Is it true that without any background, MBA courses are hard to assimilate or hard to turn into knowledge that can be applied?
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Degrees Feedback: You can get a masters in just about anything, no matter what you majored in for your undergraduate work. It might just take a little longer if you have no previous business courses. People who have had previous courses in business like accounting, statistics, computer science or economics can usually get those credits waived in their master’s work whereas you would just have to take the full course program (usually 48 credits).
regarding the additional info you put……if you apply yourself and study and take the coursework seriously, you should be fine. you will find that no matter what you majored in as an undergrad, you can apply it to practically any master’s program you are interested in. though you might not have the business background that others who did the undergrad coursework will, so what? there is no reason why you wouldn’t be able to do the work or understand it. to give you a better idea of what a masters program in business would be like, here are two links from the college that i work at. the first gives you an overview of the program and the second gives you the course descriptions of each class. i know lots of people who have done what you are asking about and they all turned out just fine.
Degrees Feedback: Your friend is wrong. Most MBA programs prefer students with backgrounds other than business. They provide the business training but they cannot provide the broad undergraduate background you may need as a manager. The MBA is a general broad degree covering a wide variety of business issues and training students for careers in managing any area of business up to CEO. MBA students study accounting, finance, marketing, statistics, management, economics, strategy, policy, leadership and similar courses. The MBA was developed because people with technical backgrounds getting promoted into management are not always able to manage, and people in management often don’t understand the technical fields they manage.
Although good MBA programs require serious study, anyone with an undergraduate degree can grasp the material, and most programs tend to be more applied than theoretical.
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