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I am 30 now and have deep interest in technology and entrepreneurship. While, I have been interested in getting MBA and apply next year. I am skeptical because world has changed a lot now.
MBA is only serving credentialism except if you are into Finance.

I am now inclining towards CS masters instead of MBA. However my profile is a much better fit for BSchool than Computer Science Masters program

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I am 30 now and have deep interest in technology and entrepreneurship. While, I have been interested in getting MBA and apply next year. I am skeptical because world has changed a lot now.
MBA is only serving credentialism except if you are into Finance.

I am now inclining towards CS masters instead of MBA. However my profile is a much better fit for BSchool than Computer Science Masters program

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Hi. I have to preface and say that I am not an expert at masters but I am not sure you want to be in a class full of 21 year olds.

Unless you attend a program that fits your demographic in your profile, you you are going to be at a disadvantage. Just like if you’re 21 and you’re getting an MBA without work experience, and you’re under qualified for all these jobs that come through the career services or on campus recruiting. The same way, all jobs will likely be pretty junior.

Again, possible on your country it works and you can make it work but MBA remains the best vehicle to change industries, roles, and break through the middle management ranks in the US. It is not the only one and by far not the cheapest but it is the most effective one.

While specialized masters degrees have been popular with applicants, I am more interested in knowing how employers respond to them. That is really the ultimate test of which degree you want to get. It doesn’t matter what you feel or what you want, it’s all about being able to get a job after you graduate. Otherwise it’s pointless :-) so I would not worry about your classmates or your feelings but employability at graduation.

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Also wanted to add that specialize masters degrees have been around for a while. There’s actually a considerable number of them. They have been mostly flying under the radar and often targeting really not the typical business school demographics. As a funny point of reference, one of the rants that Republicans had about the Democrat loan forgiveness plan was that it was going to bail out all the people who got weird useless masters degrees. That’s how I’ve learned about some of them. Many of them are not competitive at all and don’t require much to get admit it, making it pretty easy to get in and making them more of a pay to play rather than competition-based admissions. Some of them are things such as masters in music history or history of ballet or Masters in feminist art. They often lack a material connection to professional world and often the kind of inspirational degrees for people who’ve been out of work for sore those were chasing there youth dreams. I’m still not sure why people get some of these unusual degrees.... anyway, it doesn’t take a lot of effort to create them and once you have a few of them, they share many classes so it’s pretty cheap to add additional programs since they would only have a few specialized courses. Thus adding computer science or business analytics Masters it’s pretty easy. The key question is how how to get a job after one of these degrees.

Often they cost a fraction of the MBA, take only 1 year, and easier to get into. Seeing that, everyone probably asks, why didn’t they think about them earlier. The answer is that they have and the answer is that sometimes things that are cheaper, easier, and faster I’m not better. At the same time you don’t always have to get the longest, most expensive, and the hardest thing. You don’t need to bring a dump truck to the grocery store. I think the challenges that some of those delineation lines have been blurred and the dump trucks have been made to fit regular parking spots.

Ask a lot of questions about both an MBA and a Master’s!

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