University and Career advice

[ceroomaster]

Left school, got a job (two-and-a-half-years-ago), starting degree in Business and Marketing in Spetember and then hope to do a Masters in Enterprise development, both part-time while still working (and earning) it's gonna be a lot of hard work but will hopefully pay off- my advice = learn as much as you can stay on as long as you can.

Good Luck!

[Sten Sture]

For an MBA program, a lot of them require a couple of years of work experience... but aside from that, Math is probably as important as Econ. In fact, for an MFE (masters in financial engineering) it would be better. Check out U of California at Berkeley's program for an idea. www.haas.berkeley.edu iirc.

If you decide to do an MBA, I would recommend an accounting class or two. Boring, but helpful in the long run.

[Kontiki]

I've got an MBA and a BA in International Relations. I can't say that the econ component of my BA helped much, although it gave me a decent background for the micro- and macro-econ courses you take with most MBAs. I think many people have the misconception that an econ background gives you a leg up in an MBA program. Everything in an MBA program is geared towards "management", so even the two econ courses you generally take are pretty basic and geared towards what a manager should know. Any more advanced econ theory, even the stuff I took with my BA, is totally useless for the purposes of an MBA. Frankly, you'd be far better off to just take something like the CSC - it gives you a much better background. Also, consider some accounting courses - tons of that stuff in an MBA program.

But the real question is do you need an MBA? I'd think about where you want to go and then decide. Unless you really want to get into the finance side of IT, I might suggest against it. True, you'll learn valuable skills regardless, but most programs require at least a few years work experience, at which point you need to evaluate whether taking the time off work (unless you do an exec MBA, but those are usually for people with far more work experience) and shelling out the dough for an MBA is worth it. Odds are, you'd be better off to just keep working your way up the ladder.