Patrick Thomas
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995 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2018
last heard May 2024
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In that same way, some people will still pursue the non-traditional way.
If they are trying to learn more about management, more about business, maybe they're an engineer, a software engineer in their 30s, and they want to just get more knowledge of the business side of things.
That doesn't happen as often, so it's definitely a nontraditional route.
But if you're in tech or in engineering or some sort of scientist and you want to get more business knowledge either to move up or just for your own sake, that's another avenue that we see a lot of people pursue an MBA maybe later than normal.
Absolutely.
This is something that MBA programs have really been striving for over this past year, especially with kind of the proliferation of online degrees.
That's been a big driver in trying to get people who ordinarily wouldn't want to take two years out of a career or leave their job, or maybe they just didn't think an MBA was something for them.
They want candidates who maybe have different types of experience, such as maybe they were in the military or
They were around different types of people.
It's just not like they don't want to be just finance pipelines.
They want to kind of expand their images.
This is a place for a broad group of career switchers.
We want your experience in medicine, in military, in hospitality, or even media.
They want kind of these broad experiences rather than just you came from top financial firms or you went to a top undergraduate business school and now you're at a top MBA program.
They want people from a broad group of backgrounds.
Well, it definitely gives them a new market to pull from in terms of students.
You know, MBA programs have wanted, before this year, they were on a five-year decline of applicants.
This is by kind of going after different crops of students than maybe they normally have.
It gives them a bigger pool to pull from, gives them more students to pull from, and it's by target.
If they make an effort to target students with different types of backgrounds, it also is...
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