Monday 28 October 2013

Only Do The MBA If Your School Is Top Tier

By Cornelius Nunev


Law school has turned out to be a game of diminishing returns on the tuition investment. Brand new figures recommended that an MBA business degree has followed suit recently. It's only worth your cash if you get the amount from a top-tier business university.

MBAs no longer unique

Lower ranked schools and online schools started offering increasingly more part-time and executive MBA programs in the early 1990s, according to the Wall Street Journal. There have not been enough jobs to keep up with the amount of people who have MBAs now.

According to professor Dr. Brooks Holtom at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, "An M.B.A. is a club that is now not exclusive. You should not assume that this less exclusive club is going to confer the same benefits."

Salaries going down a ton

The result of this is proving to be some very expensive stories of woe, designed for those with MBAs from schools that aren't top-tier. The numbers bear this out. Average pay for graduates with minimal experience (three years or less) was $53,900 in 2012, according to data from PayScale.com. That's 4.6 percent lower than it was in 2008, and at 186 of the schools PayScale examined, pay dropped a whopping 62 percent over that time span.

Why the tremendous drop? It isn't simply due to the weak, recessionary economy. It's because business schools are dangling false hopes before students. Those with experience don't need degrees as much, and top-tier companies tend to recruit from only the most exceptional schools. The glut of MBAs in the United States doesn't help matters, regardless of a company's exclusivity, and neither does the sluggish economy that retards the amount of opportunities accessible.

Intense MBA expansion

Universities are making a ton of cash right now on business and law. There are a ridiculous amount of law students and business student's right, which is also really bad news for those students. It is a better idea to assess the career industry before you decide to get debt to get another degree, and the average salary is not worth it most of the time. Unless you get into a top tier university, it is not worth it.



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