Is an MBA worth the time if one were already a biz undergad?

[Guest]

Does graduate bschool teach the same shiet as the undergraduate curriculum? Is it true that if I went to undergrad bschool...then really..."move on...nothing to see here" applies to my decision for an MBA? Waste of my time and money?

I think I would feel very ripped off if I enrolled in Bschool...and then I were just relearning shiet like the WACC formula, the useless SWOT analysis, or read stupid cases on Japan's uber-successful just-in-time production techniques...

Can someone confirm? Thanks a lot for your time.

P.S. Peter Lynch (google him if you don't know who he is, and...shame on you) told my friend, who was still at harvard undergrad at the time....that Bschool would be a total waste of 2 years =p Just wanted to share that.

[MBAApply]

Business undergrads get an MBA mostly for the credential and/or an excuse not to work for 2 years (sabbatical). You won't really learn that much more than you would from your business undergrad. In fact, the first year MBA core courses are essentially 100-level courses, with electives being 200-level survey courses.

Alex Chu
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http://mbaapply.blogspot.com

[Guest]

Thanks Alex for your very honest perspectives. That is something that no MBA program would ever tell their applicants -- their applications number would drop from 8,000 per year to 500. While a doctor / engineer / liberal arts major could learn the language of business from an MBA program, I think a person such as myself would learn very little. The networking thing is also bullshiet I might add. My friend, who graduated from Wharton, said the class hardly keeps in touch -- with everyone scattered all over the world after bschool life....(sending facebook smiley faces, and an occassional email is not much to talk about)....I also recently spoke with a Northwestern kellog alum, who lives in my apt building, and Cornell alum -- both said the experience was ok....just......ok....

Talking to former students is really the best way to find out if an MBA is right for you -- look past the rankings and the fancy websites and brochures.

I am looking for a Macro econ - International Relations grad program now =p I have no desire for schoomzing w/ corporate douchebags at an MBA program. Life's too short to be that fake.