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MBA as a fresher or MBA with experience which is better and has more value? Should I do full time MBA or get work experience and then do executive MBA later?


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RE: MBA as a fresher or MBA with experience which is better and has more value? Should I do full time MBA or get work experience and then do executive MBA later?

Meghna Mukherjee
Meghna Mukherjee
Verified Career Expert
Counselor at Adaptive Minds
  • Mumbai

Hi Pooja,

Interesting question.

The choice is yours. 

But as a counselor, I would always suggest that pursuing an MBA program after experience is much better. Reason being, if you note a manager is someone who guides and treds along with his team towards completion of a goal or a target in  an given organization. To achieve a target, the manager needs help of few traits like:

  • Work knowledge right from the base
  • His personal ability to get the work done

Now imagine a manager just out of a B-School, who has no base knowledge and is yet to develop managerial skills. Also the team he handles is full of experienced people, but are not MBA. Will they listen to him, just because he is from a B-School. Technical or base knowledge is zero, at the sametime he has hardly had any team or work experience and dealing with people at the top level is not easy.

Thus I recommend MBA after a work experience.

A work experience helps the student develop team ability, dealing with colleagues with different temperaments and at the same time work knowledge all which are extremely important.

Hope this helps.

Wish you good luck....

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