[irahul]

> I have a business degree and an MBA and I agree with this statement. If I could go back, I would major is something more technical.

I don't know much about MBA programs, but don't you study Economics, Accounting, Finance...? Or Economics isn't considered technical enough?

[saraid216]

I wouldn't consider economics to be technical at all. Traditional Economics is the art of taking outdated physical models as analogies for sociological phenomena. There are modern branches of economics that are useful and arguably even technical, but I doubt you get into them as a typical undergraduate.

[johnrgrace]

In my opinion you don’t get a lot of hard skills at a MBA program. MBA program usually gets you 1-2 courses on any specific topic. If you get a Harvard MBA, you'll get two Finance and one Accounting course, and part of one course will cover econ. Just look at the curriculum http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academic-experience/curriculum/Pages/...

I had the choice of getting an MBA or MS in Finance. I went for the MS Finance and took these courses; 2 stats, 2 econ, 2accounting, 2 Managerial Analysis, and 8 Finance courses as my paid for course load. I took non-required courses in Operations management, MIS, Leadership, Business Law, and Marketing at the cheap Grad student rate and sat in the same classes as MBA’s.

Go to my schools website and you can see the simple thought approach difference between an MS and MBA The MBA program landing page is all about school rank, how to get in, cost. The course work isn’t directly linked to that page. http://bauer.uh.edu/graduate-studies/mba/index.php The M.S. Finance page tells you the goals about what they want you to learn, and has the curriculum http://bauer.uh.edu/graduate-studies/ms-finance/index.php MBA programs are LARGELY about getting credentials. They are profit centers for universities, and get run that way. Most students are there to punch a card. You can see that mindset in terms of how the websites are set up.

[irahul]

I don't have a problem with MBA course flaunting their rankings, but why sacrifice learning? You can very well flaunt your ranking, and teach statistics and economics.