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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
.... a masters isnt super important either....(but)....the track from engineering into management is well documented....and.... by and large i think engineers make poor managers. ....(and)... MBAs in my experience are nonsense. worth a lot of money, but not because you are any better at business than anyone else.....
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Sometimes I think your perspective is right on target. Like your suggestion to add a business master's to an engineering BS. And then at other times you seem to be thinking with a different brain. There are more reasons to study business than just bragging rights or a piece of paper. Someone said, and perhaps you, that business is its own specialty and this is true.
And someone bemoaned the tendency for employers to make managers out of engineers, and this thinking is common. For example, health care companies seem often to imagine that only doctors can administer an organization that employs doctors. That's not far from imagining that business analysts should advise patients on health care matters.
All in all, I agree that an MBA atop an engineering BS is a smart plan. There were several engineering graduates in my MBA program.