As of this past Friday, I have officially graduated with a Masters in Business Administration. I’m officially ready to begin exploiting the poor and raping the environment in the pursuit of greed.
I’m a grad student in public policy, and there is some small amount of resentment toward the business school at our university, which has a reputation for…well, douchebaggery. (Frankly, it’s pretty well-deserved. I’m sure you’re not a douchebag, though.) One of my classmates once referred (in the hearing of a friend who was working on a dual degree between policy and business and was so pissed off that he repeated it ad infinitum) to B-schoolers with “they steal from the blind.”
Heh. Much easier than stealing from babies, the blind aren’t as likely to cry loudly.
ahem That said, a friend of ours who has a Masters in Engineering said, when hearing we (my wife and I) were both in the program, “Man, the b-school folks are some of the biggest sharks I’ve ever met. You guys will fit right in.” We took it as a compliment.
We had a really interesting cross-section of folks in our program. One of my teammates was probably the last person I’d expect to be in a b-school program. She’s a social worker and plans to get into social entrepreneurship (read: start her own non-profit).
Finance in general. More specifically either international finance or commercial banking. There’s some overlap there, but those are my primary areas of interest. I’ve got a couple of irons in the fire, including making it to the final round of interviews for a program for business students with a bank. Right now that’s my top option if it works out.
Cool - best of luck; just don’t plan to stay there for more than 3 years - get your training in a big company, then find a company you fit with better where you can try to apply that experience…