Why should you go for MBA?

Before one answers that question, one must however answer the more important question which is - ‘Should you go for MBA?’

While the answer to the latter one seems to be a simple choice among three option – Yes, no and depends. The most easily and readily chosen option is usually ‘Depends’.

But what does it depend upon? To begin with, it depends on whether you are inclined towards pursuing a management career in the glorified corporate world or do you intend to set up your own business and face the rising tides alone.

Incidentally, you need an MBA degree in both instances! For different reasons and ends though.

For a management career in the corporate world, an MBA degree would greatly enhance your chances of proving your worth to a prospective employer. You let the grades and the B-School stamp do the talking for you.

Now if you wish to set up your own business or expand upon an existing business, an MBA degree may not seem to be worth spending the money and the time. Truthfully speaking, MBA would not be helpful in an apparent manner during the challenges and hardships you’ll face in establishing a new business or learning the ropes of an existing business. But an MBA course equips you with the knowledge and the second-hand experience of challenges faced and a theoretical understanding of the obstacles and issues that one comes across while starting a business.

While ‘second-hand knowledge’ does sound quite disheartening and demeaning, we must realize that what we learn from those experiences and discussions on case studies in a B-school, can be applied across certain situations to power through problems and challenges faced in the real business scenario. A Masters in Business Administration helps you prepare for what’s out there and provides very useful and interesting insights into the real world and the decisions taken by powerful leaders and business icons. This knowledge can further be used to bring about innovative changes and make processes and procedures more efficient.

The realization is now sinking in among various professions that the knowledge gained from an MBA course is far more than just a few gimmicks to survive in the corporate world. The roads from all professions such as medicine, law and engineering are converging towards MBA as a final destination and a route to climbing successfully the last and the top most rung of knowledge and professional complacency.

So why should you go for MBA ?

The answer is simple. It because an MBA course is not just the study of administration and management in the business world but it is an all-consuming must-have experience which prepares you not as a manager but as a complete man who is in-charge of all his mental faculties and is empowered by the knowledge and experiences of the leaders past as well as present. An MBA course triggers the process of constant learning and analyzing information with the sole purpose of enhancing the productivity and effectiveness of your actions.