How important is having an MBA (or a master’s degree generally) for serving in a CIO/ CTO role? Currently a software engineer, interested in doing a CS masters if I can get into a top school/get funding, but am reluctant for a lot of reasons (lost salary, family reasons, etc.) Goal is to become an architect and maybe eventually a CIO/CTO. Thoughts?

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CIO here - If you want to be a business facing CIO, get the MBA. If you want to be a product facing CTO, get the CS masters.

It will def help in the long run.

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It’s not important. What’s important is your leadership experience, people skills, EQ (CIO is a GM), and functional/technical expertise.

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It definitely helps but hard to quantify by how much...

If I had to rank them (which is hard, given all the “each case is different” scenarios) I’d say this is the order of likelihood of becoming a CIO/CTO:
1: CS bachelor with MBA and 8+ years in tech project management
2: CS Masters with 10+ years experience in project and team management
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