How many of you regret getting an MBA? I'm halfway through my program, starting to have doubts...

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What school are you going to? Because I think the school you go to makes or breaks your experience.

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I do. Should have just invested that money. It would have been 3x already! 😄

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You are assuming that I would have been jobless without the MBA. Nobody gave me job just because I have an MBA.

I’m in one currently but 2x points I’ll relay to you that I concluded even prior to joining:

A. By itself it’s not powerful, you need to combine with another masters + your domain field experience for unique narrative (law, bio, engineering, medical, sales, etc)

B. The emphasis should be on networking, for context what you think may be networking may be wrong if you are thinking like this.
I’m talking getting to know all your cohort, school staff, going to clubs, associations, orgs, and engaging with the people in them + the material and finally attending all industry related talks/chats/events at the school.

Without these there isn’t a lot of value besides understanding corporate culture further (and maybe becoming more communicative) imo

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Me. Too general

Use your MBA to milk the internship market. Network at the internships and leverage your connections to get a job. If you just getting an MBA to go to classes, you are wasting your time and money. Actual work experience and connections is the prize.

I pursued an MBA to transition away from engineering, and while I am more satisfied with my current day-to-day work, I'm uncertain if it was financially prudent. Had I remained in engineering, I would have accumulated 12 years of experience and earned around $180k annually. Instead, I experienced a career shift after five years of engineering, two years of MBA study, and two years of unemployment during COVID. Additionally, the MBA cost nearly $200k.

Although my job satisfaction has improved thanks to the MBA, I can't help but think that my financial situation would have been significantly better if I had stayed in engineering.

@M1 why didn’t you just do part time so you don’t waste 2 years

At Top schools, you get the most benefits if you do the full-time. I already hated being an engineer, and I wanted to fully immerse myself into the MBA experience. I don't regret doing full-time as I get to travel to dozen or so countries either through the program or during my breaks using parts of my student loan. I would never trade those experiences back.

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