[an4rchy]

This definitely seems like an Apples to Oranges comparison.

It is highly dependent on what your goal is / how you want to leverage either of those things.

A bit of perspective on B-school: - The value is primarily in the network you get exposed to (students, professors, industry veterans, alumni etc). This is something that can help you throughout your life. - It's also a great way to switch careers, to a certain extent, or even move up the corporate ladder (some companies even sponsor the MBA) -- both of these you can do without an MBA -- but may require a lot of hustle. - In terms of classes/courses, I would argue that you can get access to 80-90% of the course material / learnings from online courses/MOOCs/blogs etc -- depending on what you are trying to learn.

However, the opportunity cost, especially if full-time, is crazy. It's basically 200K + 2 years of salary.

The Bloomberg terminal on the other hand, is something you can try/use for a year, while working and see if you are getting what you want out of it, and then continue or stop.

Once again, definitely dependent on what the end goal is.