Will an MBA set me apart? I have a BS in Marketing from top 15 undergraduate business program with a 3.8 gpa, 2 years work experience (3 by the time I’d enroll), and scored in the 63rd percentile on the gmat. This qualifies me for an average business school (ranked below ~50). My goal is to move into a management position within the next 5 years and eventually move into a director or c-suite role. At your companies, do most upper-level marketing employees have an MBA? Is it from a top school?

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Depends on what role or company you want.

Based on what you listed for your near term goals - that can be achieved without an MBA.

Investing only a fraction of your school loan would absolutely help you in your journey - more specific courses, networking opportunities, a small tech stack for you to run your own tests.

Now, if you want to be a brand manager for a large CPG company - then a MBA would be favored.

To be marketing manager/director/vp at a start-up, agency or in house marketing team can be achieved without one.

Many people in this community know someone at marketing director/vp/cmo/ceo levels that don’t have any undergrad degree.

Skills, experience, building and leveraging your network is all that’s required.

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No. Work experience & measurable impact runs circles around Wharton grads all fucking day. Join a mid size co or startup series B and smash some homeruns. Learn js/python and SQL to extract and analyze data to demonstrate actionable results. MBAs are dated... Master Bullshit Artist

Thanks for your reply. I don’t use js or python in my current role, but I can definitely see the value and will look into taking some classes. What else would help me stand out to future employers? I have a strong work ethic and quite a bit of free time right now. I am getting good exposure to new things in my current role, but it’s a small company, so I do a lot of tasks at the surface level and don’t deep dive into many areas. I feel like I could be doing more on the side, to set me up for my dream job in the future.

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