Is an MBA worth it?

I have recently completed a degree in Grapgic Design yet have been struggling to find a job therefore want to broaden my options so have applied to do an MBA at Brunel Business School in London.

I think mastering in business will give me many more opportunities in the working world and I will gain alot of great experience that is non-design related which could help me in other areas of business.

Has anyone else done the same? And did you find this worked?

Also is anyone else going to Brunel? I know it was voted as one of the best business schools in the UK and heard some great reviews but don't know anyone else who is going.

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I have recently completed a degree in Grapgic Design yet have been struggling to find a job therefore want to broaden my options so have applied to do an MBA at Brunel Business School in London.

I think mastering in business will give me many more opportunities in the working world and I will gain alot of great experience that is non-design related which could help me in other areas of business.

Has anyone else done the same? And did you find this worked?

Also is anyone else going to Brunel? I know it was voted as one of the best business schools in the UK and heard some great reviews but don't know anyone else who is going.

Their Facebook link is:


https://www.facebook.com/BrunelBusinessSchool/app_1376822195885789

Most MBAs aren't worth the paper it is printed on.

Most people who NEED the MBA would almost certainly have had the company they work for pay for it on their behalf or a good part of it subsidized, the previous UK based O&G company I worked for before moving to Norway would pay half if you are chosen to pursue it and contractual bond of 3 years. There were only 5 institutions they sent you to.

If the MBA program would take on a fresh graduate or someone who never had any working experience then the only thing to do is to keep away from that program with a 10ft long bargepole. Most good MBA programs won't accept anyone unless the said person has at least 3-5 years of managerial experience with some looking for middle to senior management experience as a basic requirement. If you don't have that and get accepted into the program then it is a guaranteed sure thing that the program you pouring money into is junk.

It is generally unlikely a Masters type qualification would improve your chances of securing a job.

A sad fact that I found out after the event. MBAs have been devalued by British universities taking on inexperienced international students just to make money.

If you are going to do an MBA I'd recommend you do the part time Executive MBA. You'll be surrounded by British students who are Adults and the environment will be more conducive to learning. You wont be writing some Chinese students section of the group report at 4 in the morning of the day that it's due in because they decided to f**k off on a sightseeing tour of York for a week without telling anybody.

Is that a universal thing for all British universities or just the lesser ones?



Many of the part-time Exec MBAs require you to be holding a full time job to pursue it. I did join in the Cambridge Executive MBA program 3 years back but had to drop out as my work and family commitments simply didn't allow it. Believe it or not the average age of participants of that program was 37 and most of the Brits on the program were Cambridge's own staff and a handful of others, the rest were execs from Asia and EU, some were based in London and a lot of those from EU racked up loads of air miles due to needing to fly into Cambridge once a month to pursue this program. The ones who took the piss? The higher up the ladder they are the more they took the piss and most who took the piss and did **** all were those who talked the most plus the ones who paid their own way.

I'm now in an executive Masters program though it is a program the company I work for contracted a university to conduct for it's executives and managers, it is open to people who don't work for the company but they have to pay for it on their own, a good thing about it is it is conducted in Norwegian and English so it hasn't any undesirable Chinese or Indian or 3rd rate EU country nationals on the program who do nothing as the language requirement does filter them out quite well. Alas you do get some lazy ****s on the program who do nothing but only want to be the one who presents.

Is that a universal thing for all British universities or just the lesser ones

I did mine at a Russell group university so far from the lesser ones. The guys who have got jobs have either returned to their old jobs or started new ones similar to the ones they left. When I start asking friends who did them a few years go at different ones if its made a difference, its helped their understanding of business a little as you'd expect, but their career progression hasn't improved. They're either doing the same job as before or have been promoted one up through natural time served progression.

You get on in business if you're a good worker. Not because of an MBA. I'd recommend saving your money and doing either CIMA qualifications or get a lean six sigma black belt. Those seem to be the qualifications that increase earning potential.

i think you'll find a lot of people who have done an MBA saying how great its been for them. But it's like somebody who's been caught out in a Nigerian 419 scam. They're reluctant to reveal their lost investment through embarrassment.

i just felt that although I learnt stuff, had they said read these books I'd be in a better situation financially than I am now. The whole MBA experience was frustrated by wet nursing immature students which negatively impacted on my own marks. They gained, I didn't.

Ho ho ho.

Immature students? MatureStudent? No? Alright then...

I paid a lot of money to do a course that advertised the requirement for significant work experience required. We had a somebody celebrate their 24th birthday.

This seems to be turning into an anti international rant. But the international students were by far my biggest problem. It says something though when you get Indian students complaining about international students as well. They came to study with Brits. The problem is that its the Chinese that have the money to send people on these courses, but in many cases they're too young and inexperienced. I **** you not, we had somebody celebrate their 24th birthday. I'd invested too much of my own money into the programme and got surrounded by kids. They did no work. They were reasonably successful as they tended to base their work on their mates assignments from the previous years and inane cases bought them in(I've got a mate who writes assignments for a cost and he wrote a few, but wouldn't say who for.)


i just felt that although I learnt stuff, had they said read these books I'd be in a better situation financially than I am now. The whole MBA experience was frustrated by wet nursing immature students which negatively impacted on my own marks. They gained, I didn't.

Hi
Insightful post. Which books did you read ?