What are my advantages and disadvantages of earning an MBA with this scenario?

Question

I am pursuing a B.S. in Marketing and a B.A. in Mass Communications, I would like to know a bit more insight on these two scenarios. I get a B.A. in Mass Communication then go for an MBA or I get a B.S. in Marketing and a B.A. in Mass Communications then get an MBA. What could be the advantages and disadvantages of either? And, of course, what jobs would I be most logically qualified for. I am 28, I have twelve years of work experience, I am on a full ride scholarship for the next four years and if I do get a business degree it would be from a top 25 undergraduate business program.

Answer 1

My answer from earlier still holds. If you get an MBA from a ranked university, your undergraduate degree does not matter -- NOT AT ALL.

The MBA will matter -- nothing else.

You do provide one more piece of information this time. Given your work experience, you will be able to go directly into an MBA program upon graduation. Top programs usually want three to five years of work experience -- but you have that.

If you can get into a to ten undergrad B-School that has a ranked MBA program, you might be able to get into a 3-2 program allowing you to get an MBA in five years. Many of the most highly rated MBA programs don't have undergraduate B-Schools. But some of them allow students to transfer into the B-School as a senior & get the MBA after five years. There were a few students in my MBA class at Duke who did this.

If you could go into one of those schools, you would not be able to major in marketing -- but could major in communications or (better) economics.

Good luck