Is it possible to do two MBAs?
Say u go to a small state business school and get an MBA in Marketing or Accounting (1 year program), work for a few years afterwards, and then go to a top business school to get an MBA in Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, etc.
I wonder if thats possible...thoughts/facts/ideas?
If you tell them, they will say no. I don't know of this is universal, but my school will.
The one adcomm that I know has said that schools do not allow you to get a second MBA...
If you don´t do an MBA at Harvard, you are wasting your time. 2 MBA´s at some shitty schools is a quadruple waste of time.
What?!? If you think you actually need to go back for a 2nd MBA, then I think the problem is not an MBA. Even if you argue that the first MBA program didn't adequately prepare you to functionally excel at a job, it's a waste of time to do a 2nd MBA.
Perhaps you are in the wrong career, perhaps you are in the right career, but wrong industry etc.
Another MBA is not the answer :-(
heh..getting an MBA is still a few years off for me. or I might not even get one at all.
Just curious to see if it was possible to do two. I know people that received a bachelors in poli sci, graduate, and then a few years later go back to college (albeit wasn't exactly a four year program) to get another bachelors but in a different field. Just wanted to see if it was possible to do two MBAs. Guess not.
Damn..all these Starbucks vanilla lattes are making my teeth hurt.
Rather than doing 2 MBA's, a better path to follow would be to do a MiM or Masters in Management relatively early in ones career( 1-2 years work ex) , and then work for 3-4 years in a nice management job. This would allow you to strengthen your profile considerably and also the tag of a branded MiM university to your profile. Not to mention the activities you do at school and the company you work in after graduation, will further adorn your profile. All this will make your profile much more desirable to any MBA B-school and later you can easily target the top 10 schools and expect a high chance of acceptance. I think this strategy would be a much better option as it would allow you to leverage the opportunities of a top MiM school and additionally allow you time to prepare for an MBA in a top B-school whose admission criteria's are pretty stringent. The way onto a top B-school such as Harvard or LBS is having a structured plan and keep on adding to ones profile. Plus one MBA from these schools will be much more beneficial then even 4 MBA's from any other average school.
Hope the answer helped.
Just curious, does anyone have experience doing a Masters in Management early in a career and then an MBA at a top program?
A guy at my top program did the Duke program right after undergrad.
An MBA admissions consultant bumps a nearly 7 year old thread. Unreal.
Sorry, the idea wasn't sustainable.
I don't know what's the underlying reason though. Elaborate?
In my humble opinion you're wasting your time getting an MBA if you haven't been lucky enough to be accepted into a top tier b school.
But then again everyone's situation is different.
Why did a 7 year old thread get revived?
An MBA at a subpar school will not help your case at a top school. That's like dating a not so good looking guy and then trying to date his really good looking brother :)
haha wow.. its been 7 years. yeah in hindsight what i really was seeking was a masters with some sort of industry focus - real estate, sports, exercise science, whatever. continue working and then pursue an MBA if it made sense. Yeah, there was no need over the last few years to do an MBA. However a graduate program in something outside of finance seems appealing.
2 mbas???? (Originally Posted: 04/04/2008)
Is this possible? Have a cousin that "unknowingly" enrolled in a no name mba program so he didnt have to go back to his home country early and fulfill his army duties.. He is a full time worker and takes classes in the weekends... i guess he finally realized he cant do two mbas....and is planning on switching to a masters degree.... if he does this, can he do a real mba when he comes back from army? or is he screwed? He's stats are solid... top 25 undergrad quadruple major 3.8 gpa, 750 GMAT, has a good job...(think ib/trading/pe at GS/MS/MER)....
quadruple major, jesus
so, your ultimate question is can he get a masters now and an mba later?
if so - your answer is absolutely yes.
my ultimate question is, can you be enrolled in a mba program and get out of it, then go into another mba program
how does one get a quadruple major? even with all the AP's in the world, wouldn't that take like 6 years to get??
Not sure how he did it but he did it all in 4 years.. Accounting/Finance/Economics/Math I'm assuming some classes counted for multiple majors? not sure..
Generally, b-school adcomms look very poorly upon applicants with existing MBAs and often lead to an immediate ding. It shouldn't be an issue if he is able to simply get a master's and drop the MBA designation. A graduate degree is a good differentiating factor come b-school applications assuming that it coincides with your why b-school response.
Tell him to go back to his own country and serve in the military so there will be 1 less qualified applicant in the pool next year!
I believe the answer is yes, for the most part. I was considering enrolling in a no-name local part-time MBA program to take a few classes (just for personal enrichment), so I asked several Adcom people about this and they said it was fine. The credits won't transfer or anything, although you could probably opt-out of some core classes (at schools that allow opting out). However, I think I did see one or two schools (Maybe Wharton?) saying in their application that they did not accept candidates who already had an MBA.
Why Would Someone Get Two MBAs from Top B-Schools? (Originally Posted: 03/31/2013)
Why searching LinkedIn I came across this person's profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alexandre-perez-casares/5/a2/434
Why get get an MBA from Stamford and HBS?
Because he didn't? He got an MBA from Stanford and an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He did not go to HBS nor did he get 2 MBAs. Reading comprehension fail.
Not surprising that John can't understand the difference, given his awful questions and poor trolling attempts.
You got to realize that many Linkedin profiles are polished, "pimped up", and/or flagantly fraudulent. While I cannot speak on Mr. Casares's case in particular, I seriously doubt somebody can be an FT PE Associate while being a FT Economic Advisor to the Congress concurrently. Red flags all around.
MPA from HKS after an MBA, it's possible but it also tells me there's no focus there except for getting those Ivy papers [assuming they are real.]
also he clearly did a concurrent joint-MBA/MPA which makes perfect sense to me and doesn't lead me to question his "focus" at all. the guy is a stud plain and simple. too many haters up in here.
Why would you post someone's LinkedIn profile here? Kind of a dick move as far as I'm concerned.
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