Honestly – is the MBA more about the prestige of the title or the actual skills you gained?

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Neither, network

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Ya it’s the ppl u meet ;)

For most it’s about the job you get while pursuing it.

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I never believed the network thing until after I graduated. I can’t believe the support I’ve seen from my mba network. People I’ve never met open their contacts and move mountains to help me achieve. It’s remarkable

But I also got all the frameworks I wanted and more. An mba can be a superpower - if you really engage in the content.

Prestige, sure. But I could go the rest of my life without anyone knowing I got the mba and still be a much stronger business person because of it.

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Well for me it gave me the extra hours to pursue a certification, but in all honesty it didn’t do much in terms of promotions. My job experiences did that on their own.

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Is it really the few hundred people you meet or the 30x larger group of alumni you now have access to?

Actually more knowledge and skills were added plus an accredited certificate

Network and door to your first post MBA employment (assuming you are interested in doing FT program from M7 schools). No one cares if you have a MBA or not if you don’t perform well at work. And no one cares if you perform super well at work.

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I have worked in marketing for about 6-7 years. First few years were in social media management. My goal is to work at a big tech company.

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