Difference between MBA v/s MEM?

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HI,
I just want to know about the difference between MBA and MEM. As, i have a technical background but i want to experience the management aspects as well. How the GMAT score is important for both the degrees and the best school for the same?

Prateekj05 · Answer

An Engineering Management Program is an interdisciplinary program. You will combine a core management curriculum with a master's level technical education – it is the appropriate alternative to a traditional masters in engineering or an MBA .

If you are interested in technology leadership, industrial management, high technology management, R&D management or even technology entrepreneurship in a start-up company - the combination of professional engineering practice with core business and management subjects typically found in an M.B.A. program will be useful.

Some top Engineering Management Programs that you can target include:

Cornell's MEM program : It's is built around a core of three required courses and a project. The required courses are in Project Management, Business Analytic Methods, and Risk Analysis. The project activity is a one-semester focused team effort on problems that vary from year to year, with teams ranging from 4-12 students (depending on the scope and needs of particular projects). This activity provides valuable experience in working in a team, exercising leadership skills, and addressing problems that are too big to be done individually. In addition to this required core, students must also take a “financial” elective and a “behavioral” elective. The curriculum requires a student to complete a three-course specialization, which is normally a mixture of engineering and management courses, often focused on a particular application area like energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, biomedical, property development, etc.
Dartmouth College's MEM program draws from a partnership between Dartmouth's Thayer school of Engineering and its Tuck School of Business. The curriculum centers around engineering analysis and design courses and a management core sequence. Courses in technology assessment, accounting, and risk assessment have recently been introduced, and the elective list now includes business law with an entrepreneurial focus, as well as technology project management, among others.
Duke University's MEM Program is a collaboration involving the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke and the Fuqua School of Business and School of Law. Duke’s interdisciplinary curriculum consists of a core business foundation, a focused technical concentration, an internship, and a seminar and workshops series. The four core business courses are marketing, accounting and finance, intellectual property and business law, and leadership and management. Duke envisions that it's program will enable engineers have the interdisciplinary perspective to understand not only technological challenges, but also the environmental, societal, and fiscal implications of engineering design decisions.
The University of Southern California's MEM Program prepares recent engineering and related field graduates and working engineers for careers in managing in today’s technologically complex environment.

udaypratapsingh99 · Answer

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1)MBA:Experienced professionals
Most of the colleges consider those applicants who have professional work experience. 1)MEM:Fresh Graduates
MEM colleges focus on bachelor’s degree with engineering background.

2)MBA: Career Development
Most of the MBA applicants are working professional and they just want career development boost. Job focus
2)MEM applicants focus on the placement and new kick start their career in the respective industry.

3)MBA: Business management 
MBA programme is a holistic management and business oriented degree. 
3) MEM: Managerial and technical 
MEM programme consist of both management and technical aspects.
4)MBA : Job opportunities
MBA students particularly get placements in consulting, finance, management, banking firms. 
4)MEM: Job opportunities
MEM students get job in both management as well as in technical firms like: R&D, industrial management, technology entrepreneurship etc.

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MiMEssay · Answer

Well, it seems that you are facing the engineer’s dilemma

Now there is a lot of difference between both the degrees in terms of curriculum, job profiles and eligibility. Let me help you to tackle this in the simplest manner possible. You have mentioned that you come from a tech. background and want to get a managerial edge. The key question is - Do you want to STAY in the technical sector? MEM is meant for people who have a strong engineering background and want to stay in the technical industry. Being a specialized masters program, MEM can be taken up by recent graduates as well as people with work experience. MBA, on the other hand, is meant for senior professionals from both technical and non-technical backgrounds (with a minimum of 3 to 5 years of work ex) , who want to get into want to get into core business fields like operations, management consulting, marketing, finance, investment banking,etc. This would reflect on the curriculum as well. While the MEM curriculum does cover business electives, a major part of it is dedicated to equip students with specific skills in the IT and engineering sector. MBA, on the other hand, is completely business focussed (Apart from a few programming electives for its analytics modules) and usually uses the case study method as a part of its learning pedagogy. So, primarily your decision would depend whether you want to stay in the technical sector or invest in a few years of work experience and eventually switch to business. For both MBA and MEM,almost all of the major schools require a GMAT/GRE score. A GMAT of 700+ and a GRE 320+ is considered to be competitive. Regarding the best schools that you can target, MEM is mostly a US Concept so the best place to pursue MEM is USA followed by Canada. MIT, Dartmouth, Duke, University of southern California, McGill, Windsor are some of the top schools you can target for MEM. You must already know that the Ivy League Schools with the likes of Harvard, Stanford, Princeton are globally recognized for their MBA Programs. Apart from these, you can look at Kellogg, Duke, LBS, Queen's University, HEC Paris and NUS. In case you want to check out a comprehensive analysis of MBA V/S MEM, visit this link: https://www.mim-essay.com/masters-in-en ... in-canada/ Hope this answer helped, good luck!

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