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Why Pursue an MBA?
Regardless of your industry or background, an MBA can assist you in reaching your professional goals. It can position you for the career refresh, timely industry switch, or role advancement you’re looking for, while also increasing your salary and job satisfaction. While there are certainly benefits to pursuing an MBA, there are also expenses. The benefits and costs of an MBA are unique to your journey and are worth exploring as you consider what it will take to get you to the career outcomes you hope for.
Five Reasons to Get an MBA
1. Clarify Your Career Goals
Self-discovery plays a big role in laying the groundwork for your MBA education. Think of it as an opportunity to learn more about yourself as you consider your future career. What interests you? What drives you? What do you want to get out of your MBA experience?
With a strategy in hand, you can explore career options and identify job search targets, so you enter the interview process focused and prepared. At the end of your MBA journey, you will be positioned to land a job that is both personally and professionally fulfilling.
Before you set foot on campus as a Scheller Full-time or Evening MBA student, you will begin working with the Jones MBA Career Center – Scheller’s perennially top five ranked career services team – to begin mapping out your career path with the coursework and experiences that will help get you there.
The Scheller Executive MBA (EMBA) program is designed for professionals with at least five years of experience. Pursuing graduate education through the EMBA program provides the opportunity to assess your current career and set goals for future growth. Career services are an integral part of the program with one-on-one career coaching tailored to your unique needs.
2. Enhance Your Business Acumen
Each aspect of an MBA enhances your professional development. MBA curriculum is designed to assist students from all backgrounds and industries to become business savvy leaders. Your core and elective classes will supply you with the business acumen you need to succeed and help you become a better communicator, a more effective leader, and a cultural change maker. Experiential learning offerings give students opportunities to gain real-world, hands-on experience.
Through Business in Practice practicum courses at the Scheller College of Business, you’ll learn how to apply academic theory to a company’s real business problem, hone your leadership skills, build your network, and acquire hands-on experience to build your confidence to lead innovation. Scheller is interested in growing business leaders who are capable and competent, with an emphasis on ethical leadership.
3. Expand Your Knowledge
Business decisions may be made in a boardroom silo, but they certainly do not live in one. Awareness of markets and industries around the world is key to a successful career. Top MBA programs will provide opportunities for you to not only learn from expert faculty, but from classmates’ varied backgrounds and perspectives.
Scheller MBAs become well-rounded business leaders poised to make a difference across industries and around the world due to opportunities like the International Practicum. Scheller MBA students are required to take at least one international elective, which allows students to define, analyze, and solve global business problems.
4. Establish Credibility
Education is key to opening doors to the spaces where impact-driven decisions are made. An MBA can further position you to succeed as you concentrate your studies in the areas that matter most in your industry, tailor fitting you for your next big career move.
Scheller's Full-time and Evening MBA programs offer 14 STEM-designated MBA concentrations, including Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Sustainability, and Supply Chain and Operations Management. With an MBA classroom experience ranked #3 in the U.S., Scheller professors expertly pair classroom learning with real-world problem-solving experiences that give MBA students an edge in their career progression.
Scheller’s Executive MBA offers two specializations alongside their core curriculum, adding the depth and breadth needed to become a leader in your field. The Global Business specialization offers classes about business on a global scale, including global workforce management, global supply chain, and international finance. The Management of Technology specialization focuses on emerging technologies, so you not only stay abreast of trends, but also know how to forecast and analyze their impact.
5. Harness the Power of Proximity
Making industry connections is vital to a successful MBA experience. These connections create a network of professionals that can become mentors, colleagues, or partners. While connections are made every day online, nothing beats the impact of in-person interaction.
Proximity to the lifeblood of business and technology in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square is vital to career discovery and job placement post-graduation. Scheller’s connection to global businesses and startup communities is built on MBA practicums, academic conferences, summer internship placements, and full-time job recruiting opportunities.
With Scheller’s expert faculty and prime location, you can make connections that will grow your network of mentors, alumni, and industry leader contacts. This network will become an integral part of your career journey as you discover career opportunities that excite and challenge you.
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