Solid advice from the comment section in the article:
"Major in business? Just read Business Week and the Economist every week and you'll pick up more than you will in a business program. Major in something worthwhile."
I sometimes think it would be fun to get one (although, since I dropped out of MBA undergrad, the only easy way for me to get one is LSE or LBS or another UK or EU school).
I know finance to the extent of "how to read a balance sheet", run a startup, or do very basic investment analysis, but nothing really exciting. If an MBA actually would be useful for something beyond credentialing in operations/management, I might consider it more.
But, I also have an MBA. And I would get that again.
I don't know much about MBA programs, but don't you study Economics, Accounting, Finance...? Or Economics isn't considered technical enough?
I had the choice of getting an MBA or MS in Finance. I went for the MS Finance and took these courses; 2 stats, 2 econ, 2accounting, 2 Managerial Analysis, and 8 Finance courses as my paid for course load. I took non-required courses in Operations management, MIS, Leadership, Business Law, and Marketing at the cheap Grad student rate and sat in the same classes as MBA’s.
Go to my schools website and you can see the simple thought approach difference between an MS and MBA The MBA program landing page is all about school rank, how to get in, cost. The course work isn’t directly linked to that page. http://bauer.uh.edu/graduate-studies/mba/index.php The M.S. Finance page tells you the goals about what they want you to learn, and has the curriculum http://bauer.uh.edu/graduate-studies/ms-finance/index.php MBA programs are LARGELY about getting credentials. They are profit centers for universities, and get run that way. Most students are there to punch a card. You can see that mindset in terms of how the websites are set up.