Ask HN: Any CS/MBA combined degree programs out there?

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by brianbreslin • 15 years ago

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Have any of you ever heard of such a thing? A masters in computer science paired with an MBA? If so, any experience with them?

vrikhter• 15 years ago

I believe a lot of schools will allow you to get two masters degrees at once even if they don't have a specified joint program. UCLA has a joint program (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x1055.xml). MIT has one (http://sdm.mit.edu/). There are many programs tailored for this and depending on the path you want to take with your career some may be better than others. Any specific questions you have in regards to them?

djb_hackernews2• 15 years ago

Just in the name of education or are there actual job reqs out there with a Masters in CS and MBA on the list?

brianbreslin5• 15 years ago

purely educational the question, been thinking heavily of getting an MBA for several years already. Figured my fascination with CS would make a good pair anyway.

djb_hackernews2• 15 years ago

That seems like a tremendous waste of time and money.

I think if you believe the consensus here at HN (and I do), that an MBA is not worth the time or money unless you are in a field that requires one to break through a glass ceiling, or it's paid by someone else. Networks are pretty easy to build in this day and age of meetups, tech events, conferences etc.

ch00ey• 15 years ago

If you're okay with moving up to Canada this may be of interest for you (http://cbet.uwaterloo.ca/).

From what I've heard it's a pretty good program and the startup community in Waterloo is quite active as well.

amorphid• 15 years ago

You could do a 4+1 program at Harvey Mudd and Drucker.

steventruong2• 15 years ago

There are schools that do offer this. A quick Google search showed a few. I'm a firm believer in doing business without MBA (personal opinion)

brianbreslin5• 15 years ago

the mba in my opinion isn't "to do business" per se, its to grow a network, earn a pedigree more than learning hard "skills" to do business with.

steventruong2• 15 years ago

I'm not sure I'd agree that you'd need an MBA to do that either. If it's really just about having it, then sure.

abbasmehdi2• 15 years ago

With all due respect its not 1982.

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