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 Skip Degree, straight To MBA, good or bad?

good or bad?
 
As per your plan, yes go ahead [ 19 ] ** [54.29%]
As per your plan, no this is not the way [ 16 ] ** [45.71%]
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TSacepilot12
post Nov 6 2017, 01:54 PM, updated 9y ago

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I'm planning to skip my degree and continue with MBA

because i felt that degree is wasting my time.

I want to continue in business but with my current tourism course i can't do credit transfer which will then take me 3 years to finish my degree. 3 years is freaking a lot to me.

I have my own business and it continue to grow from time to time, with parent's expectation i will definitely need to continue my studies but i don't feel like giving my 3 years time to college because with 3 years i can grow my business internationally, at least and minimum in M'sia.


So I want to take a part time MBA in m'sia at least it's a master and parents also wont bising and at least i have a backup plan if my business fail in future, i'm still holding MBA.. at least boleh cari makan wont die

What do you think?
I really don't want to give up my 3 years full time as a student and I want to continue my business as an entrepreneur, I spent 5 years + to make things happen.. i won't give up my idea and my business no matter what
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post Nov 6 2017, 02:10 PM

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QUOTE(2feidei @ Nov 6 2017, 01:56 PM)
Don't think you can go MBA without a basic degree, unless u got say 20 years of work experience
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I have friends who take MBA.. i did some reseach on what MBA really do

so i look through all their things.. and i feel that MBA is really not that hard if we research properly..

the only thing that i'm concern is that if i continue my degree my 3 years will be gone just like that

i can't go back to those hostels life, taking LRT to college and literally a dead person.

i have things to do and i have things that need to be done, i cannot stop in my current situation..

MBA only 1 year +- no matter how hard it is.. it's only 1year


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post Nov 7 2017, 08:04 PM

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QUOTE(joe_toye @ Nov 6 2017, 04:34 PM)
Sorry - you are wrong.

You can actually do an MBA or Masters without a degree provided you meet the minimum years in terms of working experience in a related field.

Many Academics believe that the working experience is worth it's weight in Gold when it comes to MBA and that to get the most out of an MBA, you must first work instead of straight-away continuing from a degree programme.

How could you finish a MBA if your cant finish your Degree? - Are you trying to tell me that someone who has years of working experience and has even started a Multi-million dollar company CANNOT finish an MBA? Someone with a Diploma or even SPM? Do you even know your facts or are you just shooting off from your mouth without an inch of research to back your statement? This is pure bollocks! I can even tell you of people who skip Masters to do their PHD!

So anyway - the Education Framework works this way - the higher you go in Tertiary Education, the more focus your area is. That's why PHD programmes are so narrow into one particular research field. Let me illustrate it for you:

Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge. By the time you finish your secondary school and diploma you are a small dot in the middle of the circle. With a Degree you gain a speciality. A master's degree helps to deepen that speciality. Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge and after many years, you manage you make a dent on the outer circle - that is PHD. (hence the red tip touching the entire circle). So yeah the response where MBA just a paper cover very wide area but not deep is entirely WRONG!

Look here - http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

The MBA is considered in many circles as a terminal professional degree which covers mostly the scientific approaches to management - or in most cases a specialised area of management.
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thank you for your information and guidance..
But can i know, if let's say i owned my business for 2 years now
and currently i'm only 20 years old. Turning 21 next year .
can i still do my degree? i have a friend who work as a counselor in uni/college but i'm not sure whether he is a good guidance or not

all i hope is i dont want to continue my degree because it will take awhile 3 years in my life. I can do so much more with those time.
On top of that, I can still have MBA cert to back me up just incase my business die within this few years.

At least i can come out cari makan ? what do you think? thanks
TSacepilot12
post Nov 7 2017, 08:07 PM

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QUOTE(lamode @ Nov 6 2017, 07:55 PM)
Me and my course mate got Master of Science from Greenwich UK via Segi about 2 years back, and he entered the course without degree.
From what I was told is 3 - 5 years of working exp in relevant field is needed.
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good info,

what if i want to continue my MBA

and my experience is from my own business..

not sure if this works?
TSacepilot12
post Dec 11 2017, 01:09 AM

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QUOTE(matrix88 @ Dec 10 2017, 01:08 PM)
those were the days when education is not available, they made it the difficult way. TS only 20 years old thinking of cutting corners, I am sure this type of mentality is wrong and will not succeed!
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Thanks. I've been waiting for people like you to step on me and to be very sure that I will not succeed in future.





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