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Originally Posted by Tapioca
What's your current skillset? Do you have management experience, or are you in sales?
What are you trying to achieve over the next 10-20 years? Are you looking to make the jump from middle management to senior management?
If you can't get your company to pay for it, are you willing to amortize the costs (~50K for a Canadian school) over a longer period of time?
Close friends of mine have recently done MBAs. They're engineers by trade who already make 6-figures but are looking to grow into senior management roles (200K+). I can see the value of an MBA for them because you can only make so much as a subject-matter expert without having something under your belt that shows you have some business acumen.
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One of my friends is doing an online MBA and even though he isn't able to get it covered, he's able to do it for a fraction of the cost of in-person programs. With remote work becoming more popular, I see no issue in doing online MBA programs.
He works as a software development manager so the MBA he does isn't particularly tied to his field I believe. He's mainly doing it to up his resume for higher level executive positions.