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I will be finishing school this fall with a biology major and my GPA is in the 2.0-2.5 range. That is not good enough for masters but I do have a choice to get accepted into this MBA program (not a well known one) on a conditional basis and my parents have said they will pay for it, they have also been pushing me into it by saying "MBAs are good".
Now I have also thought about working as a lab tech but they are highly against me working right out of college.
Their claim is that if I do good in a masters program, it will almost blank my undergrad GPA and create more opportunities for me in the future. Issue is, I have no idea on what I want to do with my life now.
Now my dad claims that once I am out of education (as in, if I reject this chance of an MBA), it will be extremely difficult if not impossible for me to get back in because my GPA is embarrassing.
I am thinking about this situation in two ways:
1. I start working after college and if I can find a job, that would make it easier to get future jobs that only care about whether or not I have had a job before. Maybe I can build a resume good enough to get into better Masters programs 5 years from now?
2. I get this MBA from a not so top tier university (still accredited though) and it helps me find better job opportunities for the future.
what makes you think you will do better in MBA? Why was your gpa so low to begin with? If you are just a poor student, it won't change just because you are getting a MBA...
also mba doesn't match biology well, kind of separate fields, why did you do biology if you didn't plan to work in it? Or why get mba if you want to get a biology job.
having a mba just to have one is pointless for you at point in life. If later on, you want to do it, then you can get in fairly easily, colleges seem to accept most people for it since people get masters to advance careers regularly. But what does it do to help you start career that you are hoping for? You don't even know what career field you want if you have no idea what you want to do in life...
don't throw money away just to stay in school, and if you are going, at least make it count and use it to advance your goals...
I will be finishing school this fall with a biology major and my GPA is in the 2.0-2.5 range. That is not good enough for masters but I do have a choice to get accepted into this MBA program (not a well known one) on a conditional basis and my parents have said they will pay for it, they have also been pushing me into it by saying "MBAs are good".
Now I have also thought about working as a lab tech but they are highly against me working right out of college.
Their claim is that if I do good in a masters program, it will almost blank my undergrad GPA and create more opportunities for me in the future. Issue is, I have no idea on what I want to do with my life now.
Now my dad claims that once I am out of education (as in, if I reject this chance of an MBA), it will be extremely difficult if not impossible for me to get back in because my GPA is embarrassing.
I am thinking about this situation in two ways:
1. I start working after college and if I can find a job, that would make it easier to get future jobs that only care about whether or not I have had a job before. Maybe I can build a resume good enough to get into better Masters programs 5 years from now?
2. I get this MBA from a not so top tier university (still accredited though) and it helps me find better job opportunities for the future.
Your parents claim that if you do well in a masters program it will make up for your poor undergrad GPA. That is undoubtedly true. However, the question I pose to you is what do you plan to do differently in an MBA program than you did in your undergrad program? If the answer is nothing, there is no reason to think you will do better in the MBA program than the undergrad program.
I agree with several posters. Getting an underwhelming BA in biology and then going straight through an MBA with no real desire to get that degree and not a lot of motivation (at this point) to use it seems like a recipe for wasted time and money. I think getting a job, figuring out where your passion is, and learning how to work hard and make things happen is your best bet for a successful future.
I will be finishing school this fall with a biology major and my GPA is in the 2.0-2.5 range. That is not good enough for masters but I do have a choice to get accepted into this MBA program (not a well known one) on a conditional basis and my parents have said they will pay for it, they have also been pushing me into it by saying "MBAs are good".
Now I have also thought about working as a lab tech but they are highly against me working right out of college.
Their claim is that if I do good in a masters program, it will almost blank my undergrad GPA and create more opportunities for me in the future. Issue is, I have no idea on what I want to do with my life now.
Now my dad claims that once I am out of education (as in, if I reject this chance of an MBA), it will be extremely difficult if not impossible for me to get back in because my GPA is embarrassing.
I am thinking about this situation in two ways:
1. I start working after college and if I can find a job, that would make it easier to get future jobs that only care about whether or not I have had a job before. Maybe I can build a resume good enough to get into better Masters programs 5 years from now?
2. I get this MBA from a not so top tier university (still accredited though) and it helps me find better job opportunities for the future.
You don't know if you're resume will be built up sufficiently in order to get into a good master's program. These days the qualify of jobs available to people with just a BA frankly sucks.
I think if your parents are paying for it, GO and GET this MBA. You're conditionally in. So many people can't continue their education due to LACK of RESOURCES. You don't need to know what you're going to do with your life. This MBA will open up more doors for you than just a bachelor's. If later in life you need another graduate degree, deal with that then. Just make sure you do well in the MBA program.
Get a job and save the money. Most employers aren’t going to ask about GPA. So if you’re getting an MBA to improve your desirability as a job candidate, you’re doing it for no reason. In some ways, it’ll hurt your chances because it looks like you don’t know what you want to do.
What do you want to do? Field research in biology? Lab? Salesman for a pharmaceutical? If you don't know what you want to do, all choices are equally bad. So rather than ask if you should go for this MBA, let's discuss instead what you want to do.
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