[hippich]

I am taking MBA course at UoPeople. Because I do not have much of career plans and wanted to "check it out" more than anything, I ignored lack of prestige. What I find so far - a lot of stuff is very superficial to anyone who did at least some business on their own, and invested in stock market (not speculated/traded/yoloed).

But at the same time, some material kinda helps to put disjointed pieces together.

Based on my experience there (I did not finish it yet, btw), I think the best approach would be to actually get your hands dirty with running a business AND investing first for quite some time, and after that take an MBA class to organize all the knowledge you gained. Without getting hands-on experience, I am not sure much of MBA program will make sense or help beyond learning the vocabulary and getting connections (connections if you go to a prestigious school of course, that what most pay for I think). It is much easier to understand the importance of financial statements after you actually traded or run books for a business, filed taxes.