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MBA from Dublin Business School

  • 23-09-2010 12:55pm
    #1
    monkeysockss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭


    Hi there,

    I posted a similar post on the education board a few days ago and was hoping to get some feedback here too.
    I graduated with a business degree this year, and planned to start working, but....you know.
    So now, very late in the day, I'm thinking of doing a p-t MBA from Dublin Business School. It's far too late to apply for any of the established universities now, and I have to stay in Dublin. I have no relevant experience (despite being a mature student) so I thought I could hopefully build up some while getting the MBA over the next two years.
    My question is will an MBA from Dublin Business School be respected, or am I just throwing my money away, bearing in mind if I wanted to do it at one of the big unis I'd be waiting till next year.

    Hopefully someone out there has some experience/advice


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  • #2
    Fergal C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭Fergal C


    I would say that an MBA from DBS is not going to be as respected as one from one of the major universities such as Trinity and that will be especially true if you plan on using your MBA abroad.

    On the other hand, I did a part time diploma in Legal studies at DBS some years ago and I was very impressed by them. The quality of the lecturers and the course in general was great. Doing the MBA in DBS for the next year would definitely be better than doing nothing.


  • #3
    MrDarcy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 585 ✭✭✭MrDarcy


    monkeysockss wrote: »
    Hi there,

    I posted a similar post on the education board a few days ago and was hoping to get some feedback here too.
    I graduated with a business degree this year, and planned to start working, but....you know.
    So now, very late in the day, I'm thinking of doing a p-t MBA from Dublin Business School. It's far too late to apply for any of the established universities now, and I have to stay in Dublin. I have no relevant experience (despite being a mature student) so I thought I could hopefully build up some while getting the MBA over the next two years.
    My question is will an MBA from Dublin Business School be respected, or am I just throwing my money away, bearing in mind if I wanted to do it at one of the big unis I'd be waiting till next year.

    Hopefully someone out there has some experience/advice

    OP, the real question here is what do you actually want to work at??? Will earning of an MBA be a necessary or desirable achievement towards your ultimate career goal??? I don't know any business that you would need an MBA for, unless you want to lecture in a college somewhere or something like that.

    It sounds to me from reading your post that you are unemployed at the moment. If you are, I don't think working towards an MBA is going to change that anytime soon.

    As a business owner, I can tell you that the best qualification out there at the moment is to have started up a business and failed. You can't beat an MBA from the University of Life! I've a degree in management and some of the sh*t that you will run into in the real world, you won't be taught about it in college I can assure you!


  • #4
    JonJoeDali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭JonJoeDali


    If I had a penny for every time I heard someone in their mid-twenties say "I think I'm just going to do a master's and wait out the recession", I'd be a rich man.

    Smacks of postponing the inevitable to me. I'd much prefer to retire at 60 and play golf during the day instead of being forced to wait until I'm 62.

    If you can get some sort of a business up off the ground with the €20k or €30k, I'd go for it.

    MBAs are great money-spinners for the institutions offering them. They cash in on people's dreams and ambitions. Even MBA students from LSE/Harvard are being taken advantage of now: they're being low-balled and expected to work 16 hours a day. It's all about keeping up appearances for these people.

    I firmly believe that if you're talented, you'll rise to the top anyway. An MBA might accelerate that path depending on the organisation you work for, but if you're not the right type of person (shy, lazy, mediocre people skills, mediocre management skills, mediocre aptitude, mediocre drive and ambition, etc.) and on the right track (i.e. inside a profitable organisation with excellent management and who value their people and don't treat them as commodities) an MBA won't be of much use to you. It will however be of benefit to DBS/Trinity/Smurfit/etc. who don't care what you end up doing once you fall off the conveyor belt.


  • #5
    MrDarcy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 585 ✭✭✭MrDarcy


    JonJoeDali wrote: »
    If I had a penny for every time I heard someone in their mid-twenties say "I think I'm just going to do a master's and wait out the recession", I'd be a rich man.

    Smacks of postponing the inevitable to me. I'd much prefer to retire at 60 and play golf during the day instead of being forced to wait until I'm 62.

    If you can get some sort of a business up off the ground with the €20k or €30k, I'd go for it.

    MBAs are great money-spinners for the institutions offering them. They cash in on people's dreams and ambitions. Even MBA students from LSE/Harvard are being taken advantage of now: they're being low-balled and expected to work 16 hours a day. It's all about keeping up appearances for these people.

    I firmly believe that if you're talented, you'll rise to the top anyway. An MBA might accelerate that path depending on the organisation you work for, but if you're not the right type of person (shy, lazy, mediocre people skills, mediocre management skills, mediocre aptitude, mediocre drive and ambition, etc.) and on the right track (i.e. inside a profitable organisation with excellent management and who value their people and don't treat them as commodities) an MBA won't be of much use to you. It will however be of benefit to DBS/Trinity/Smurfit/etc. who don't care what you end up doing once you fall off the conveyor belt.

    To me an MBA is like some kind of attempt at a "get around" for having started and run a business, whether it was successful or not. There is no course out there that will make convert you into some kind of an alchimist or business success guru, you have to roll up the sleeves and just decide your going at it.

    I'd look at an MBA as a disadvantage to any applicant for a job, to me it would indicate someone who could possibly be averse to risk taking and who places too great an emphasis on formal qualification over practical (and much harder earned) experience.


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