Masterstudium – MBA oder M.Sc?
Hallo zusammen,
ich stehe aktuell vor einer wichtigen Entscheidung und hoffe auf eure Erfahrungen und Meinungen.
Ich habe meinen Bachelor in Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen abgeschlossen und bereits im Projekteinkauf in der Industrie gearbeitet – zuerst als Werkstudent, jetzt auch Vollzeit nach meinem Abschluss. Ich habe mich letztendlich für einen Master im Supply Chain Management (SCM) entschieden. Der Grund dafür ist, dass ich mich im Bereich Beschaffung wohlfühle und großes Interesse an Logistik und deren Planung habe.
Mein Ziel ist es, den Master berufsbegleitend zu machen und dabei direkt vom Einkauf ins Supply Chain Management zu wechseln.
Jetzt stehe ich vor einem Dilemma: Während meines Studiums hat mir eine Professorin davon abgeraten, einen MBA zu machen. Sie meinte, dass dieser für einen Wirtschaftsingenieur eher unnötig sei und bei Arbeitgebern sogar Fragen aufwerfen könnte. Allerdings habe ich ambitionierte Karriereziele und strebe langfristig eine Position wie „Head of…“ oder „Chief of…“ an.
Daher frage ich mich: Ist der MBA wirklich besser geeignet für den Weg in eine Führungsposition als ein klassischer M.Sc. oder M.A.? Ich habe oft gelesen, dass der MBA bei der Karriere in Richtung Management oder Führungsebene besonders angesehen ist. Stimmt das, oder ist das heutzutage eher irrelevant?
Ich würde mich sehr über eure Erfahrungsberichte freuen – insbesondere, wenn ihr in einer ähnlichen Situation wart oder einen der beiden Wege eingeschlagen habt.
Vielen Dank im Voraus!
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Depending on the leadership position or what kind of company you are planning to work…
You are definitely better off with an MBA where the promotions are awarded independently to self-actors and key students.
If you want to score with knowledge and competence and if you want a doctorate, do M.Sc.
The latter, of course, meets 😀
also because of the goal of obtaining a doctorate. Thank you.
The original meaning of an MBA study was to give the necessary knowledge in a compact manner to new and prospective executives without business knowledge. In this respect, she is not wrong: as a Wing graduate you should already have some of them.
If you already have some professional experience, you should also be aware that such designations are almost as nothing meaningful as “managers”.
In itself, the term of the degree does not matter. It is also highly doubtful whether a master’s degree will give you the “way to a leadership position”. The universities like to convey this impression, of course, but such a study is at best a puzzle piece on the way.
However, MBA courses (at least at the well-known universities that offer them) often turn to a little longer professional experience and have the side effect that one can form networks. This can help the career – but the question is whether an MBA from the FH Kaffhausen can really offer this advantage at all, and whether you cannot get these contacts even without an expensive or time-consuming study.
I actually do the Master because I want to do my doctorate in the future, on the one hand, and on the other hand also to ask for SCM jobs. So not pure from the thought “I’m just going on when I have the master”. Of course, the difference between M.Sc. / M.A. etc. seems to play hardly any role today. But I thought that it could be especially useful for the MBA. But well, it’s all going out to science degree. Thank you!
The whole thing again has the premise that there is one employer and all employers act equally. But it is not so, so it is difficult to say what is good or bad. At the end of the day there are many factors why one is successful or not. An MBA is more suitable for people with professional experience and not so much for people who still come very young from the university.
In the case, the M.Sc would of course be more appropriate, thank you!
MBA is hollow, important, in comparison to M.Sc., making itself an imaginary monkey, giving you an insane impression.
Head of… or Chief of… is also not the only or top career goal. Instead, one can develop into an increasingly rare, more sought-after specialist, so my career looked like an engineer scientist. Chef isn’t art, you know. You will become boss when you need foreign help to solve the problems, you will become a specialist if you solve the problems without any other help. A successful company will not detract the skilled person from his tasks and become the boss, but rather someone who is not needed as a skilled person.
Funny… I have heard about this tactics, but a correlation with a positive company development would have been more controversial…
Thanks for the experience! In fact, the doctorate is my goal in the long term, as I have a 210 ECTS Bachelor, the degree of the Master is also only 90 ECTS, and since I have hardly any relevant BE and get almost fresh from the university, I think it will be the M.Sc. I mentioned the titles like “Head of” only because of the salaries. Of course, the title is not as important to me as a proper payment.
So briefly: my goal is to get to the top in my twenties in terms of content, and if this results in a leadership position, it is of course a nice side effect.
But as long as I still have the power and energy to push even longer layers, I also like to do this (yet).
Thanks again!