Why do most engineers prefer to pursue MBA and land up in management careers?

Hi, Yes, it is a fact that a lot lot Engineers prefer to do management. The reason could be that it gives multitasking ability to the engineers. Imagine, if an engineer has done MBA in acquire management skills, he can easily get job in technical department in any company. That engineer can also handle management responsibility very well. There are so many engineers who try to go for MBA after their graduation in B.E. or B.Tech. If anyone appears in any personal interview for an MBA college, he/she is supposed to be asked why do you want to do MBA after engineering? This question comes because he/she is trying to shift from technical to a managerial domain. One of the main reasons could be the better packages that are offered to an MBA-This answer isn't convincing enough for an interview. Engineers in India have no clues about their careers till they graduate and when they decide to opt for MBA, not all of them have a clear perspective in mind. In our society, the value of MBA is more than B.Tech. If an engineer finds difficulty in getting good job of his choice even after doing engineering from a good college, he gives it a thought to do MBA with career perspective. Also, the engineers can make excellent data-tools, while managers know exactly where to deploy them. Hope it helped!

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This is a very good question. Most of the engineers prefer MBA. There are many reasons for this. Being an engineer assures that the person is good in logical and analytical skills. Most of the times after working for some years in technical field, there comes stagnancy. At that time having a Masters degree/ post-graduation degree always helps. Also management is required everywhere. So learning MBA after engineering gives them a lot of scope as you are well aware with upcoming technologies along with administration. Some students in mechanical field do not like the area they have to work in so MBA in operations comes up as a better option in that. Also few engineers have done graduation in engineering because they went with majority. MBA gives them an option to come to right path as there are varied specializations offered in MBA course. Also for few students MS is not a feasible option because of financial conditions. MBA is then preferred. Due to all above reasons you will find more of Engineers in MBA course.

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There are "N" number of reasons for this. The most common one is most the students (mostly CSE/IT engineers) don't know why they did engineering and they are now bored of the IT job. So, they think of MBA as an escape from 9-6 desk job. Another reason stated in most of the interviews is - being in an MNC I could only see a very small (nano) picture of the business, now I want to see how the business world actually works, want to do more for the organisation by bringing in the businesses or clients. My take on this is - Change is the only constant. It's always good to learn new things, upgrade yourself and do as much as you can for the society as a whole. MBA after engineering makes you a complete Techno Manager. You can make better decisions as you also know how your ideas can be converted into reality by the technical team. Also, organisations can save on some money by recruiting just one resource who can work on multiple things.

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This is the fact the nowadays engineers are end up with doing management course. The major reason is that companies are looking for full package in candidates. Companies always go for optimum utilization of resources. As human resource also play a vital role in companies. There are number of companies such as IT companies, those require candidates having skills of an engineer and also of management. They want combo of management and technical knowledge and there are great opportunities for those candidates having both the skills.

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Role of an engineer is changing with industrial companies who have to implement new practices and new technology so that in the future MBA will be a necessity. Engineers often become the primary manager of change with an organization. So they should have the necessary skills required to organize things in a better way. Engineering students are quite good at maths and reasoning. So they're able to find good opportunities in the field of finance. Most of them go for operations management because they're mechanical engineers and are good at projects that involve industrial research. MBA degree increases their credibility. An engineer, powered with MBA degree, calls a better pay package than any other course. An engineering student's average package is around 11 lakh but if they blend engineering and MBA degrees of most sought-after institutes, then the package shoots up to 18 lakh for freshers.

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B.Tech is a field where the graduate earns a lot of technical knowledge. Most of the engineers are not able to get a high paid job after their course. Major MNCs are looking for the students who have very good technical and managerial skills. Both managerial and technical knowledge is very useful for a student when working in a multinational company. Nowadays, B.Tech graduates either go for MBA or for banking jobs because of the salary these fields offer. For B.TECH+MBA graduates, he can use his skills both in technical and management level of the organization. The interesting thing is that a lot of engineering graduates after MBA are getting pure managerial jobs. This indicates becoming an engineer is not about gaining skills. He or she should have work experience and enough knowledge. Because of the lack of skills in engineering graduates majority of MNCs just give management jobs to them.

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