A couple of weeks ago I paid a visit to OSU's Fisher College of Business to talk to a guy about the MBA program. Tuition alone, for the whole degree, is $90k. According to their marketing stuff, the average MBA graduate can expect to make a whole $89k upon graduation. First of all, that's just adorable, and second of all that's $1000 less than the tuition itself.
Like I said, adorable.
What it all amounts to, my only friends, is a $90k job interview prep course. You see, everything is designed help the student find a target industry, perhaps even a favorite company, then figure out how to get an opportunity to beg someone to give them a job. This job will no doubt require of them many, many hours of mind-numbing meetings; they will have to become adept at office politics; they will become better and better at begging people for raises and promotions. This is the life an MBA offers.
There are no guarantees, mind you. A desperate and anxious graduate could go through three years of group projects and sensitivity training, all while taking on massive debt, only to find that no one wants to even let them beg for a chance to sell themselves for a pittance.
So, there is no MBA in my future. How boring, how pointless, how stupid it would all be.
Still, it's possible that I just might do something unexpected, like, for instance, sit for the GMAT. You can do more with this than apply for a stupid MBA.
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