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Originally Posted by user_name
I like your post, mosfro.
So why do a lot of the people getting DBA/PhD Business have MBA's? Is it because the adcoms prefer them to applicants fresh out of college? Or is it because not many college seniors want to get a DBA/PhD Business?
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username,
i think alot of ppl of MBAs because its the most relevant graduate degree to a Phd in Business. If you had a weak background coming out of college, or a big break between undergrad and grad school (i.e. private sector), then high grades in an MBA program signal to the adcoms that you infact remember how to study, etc.
Also i have noticed that some MBA students engage in research with MBA faculty, so that might be something these applicants are trying to do.
I think you are right that not many college seniors know they want a doctorate in business, however i DO think that the adcoms would prefer a fresh undergraduate with all the necessary skills and math to, say, someone who had been out of school for a decade or so...But i think i may only be speaking for bus econ., finance, strat, ---maybe not the management and other majors....
PS. its nice to scheng75 is back on the boards....u applyin to grad school all over again?