Not even close RE: MBA. There is an insane glut of MBAs because of rational choice to go there where MBAs used to have a ton of opportunity. Then the economy crashed and now STEM fields are being mined for business intelligence / game theorists that can learn rudimentary business practices on the fly (or the company will pay for a night-time MBA).
The majority of people who struggle with getting high paying work after an MBA previously struggled with getting high paying work as a Stem graduate. Something like 40% of MBAs are engineers.
Not the same thing. Once you're in a US college, you can pick your major, whether that's English or STEM. But for Medicine or MBA, you need to be admitted to a postgraduate program. I remained a STEM because I didn't have the grades for medicine. Didn't "choose".
that's a good point, shows my European bias. In France at least, entering in medicine or decent engineer career path requires similar level of grades. Entering into a MBA would be similar to get a very good engineer degree (grade-wise, skills being different obviously)