HI EVERYONE. I AM AN ENGINEERING GRADUATE(COMPUTER SCIENCE). I WISH TO PURSUE MY HIGHER STUDIES IN  LONDON!!  I AM QUIET PUZZELED BETWEEN CHOOSING A MBA AND A MSc IN MARKETTING. WHAT WOULD BE MY FUTURE IF I CHOOSE EITHER OF THEM.. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS !! WHICH WOULD BE BETTER -MBA OR MSc CONSIDERING I DONT HAVE ANY WORK EPERIENCE..

THANKS

ANIKETHAN 

Well, an MBA is a general management degree though you can at times choose specializations.  The MBA is more flexible than the MSc you listed and can often be used accross multiple disciplines.  The marketing degree is an advanced marketing degree, not necassarily a management degree. 

 

What exactly do you want to do?

MBA vs. MSc probably isn't a huge difference, at least it's not in the States, but I too would like to know what you actually want to do.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

thank you cajun for replying to my post. i am considering a degree in management outside my country because i want to start my own busines in the near future. i wanted to do a mba but it requires eperience.. so, as an alternative i have opened up options towards a Msc. i even have a choice to pursue Masters in international business in LSBF.....  i want to know whether people segregate the MBAs and the MSCs in the market ....? ?because even when i get a job i want my job to help me hone my business skills.. give me good international eposure...  this is wat i desire for at the end of the day ....  please advice.

thank you

Usually when I think about distance learning and London, I think of the University of London External Programme.  They don't have anything in Marketing, but they do have a few programs you may want to consider, including an MSc in International Business and both an MBA and an MSc in International Management.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

My experience (working with MBA graduates, and having one myself) is that the MBA is of far more value to someone with at least a few years of work experience, rather than as a bolt on immediately after a Bachelor's degree.  However, if you are planning on doing a distance education MBA, you might be gaining enough work experience simultaneously to get something close to full value out of it.

The MSc seems pretty specific in scope ("Marketing"), where my experience is that most MBAs are general in scope (and everyone with an MBA and specialty in Finance is hurling insults at me).  IHowever, managers are generalists, not necessarily SMEs lilke someone with an MA in Economics, or Accounting, etc.

If you want to be a specialist, go MSc or MA, if you are looking to just  broaden your skillset, go MBA.

Later,

hi again..  how is london school of business and finance(LSBF)???

LSBF would be okay if you do their program where you end up with a Master's from Grenoble.  (They also have one where you finish with a degree from the unremarkable University of East London.)

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the MBA was a hot degree, and other business-related master's degrees were considered inferior. This is no more. As noted above, if you want to specialize in a particular area, get a degree in it. If not, get a general MBA, or get an MBA in your desired specialization. The relevance of the degree to your career and professional identity is far more important than the exact designation.

Lester is mostly correct.  I agree with everything he said except that the MBA is still probably the single most popular graduate degree around, for better or for worse primarily because it does so well in the private sector.  From a purely academic standpoint however, the MSc and MBA are equals, in fact from a purely academic standpoint for someone looking to become a subject matter expert in a specific discipline, the MSc may be superior. 

Lester:

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the MBA was a hot degree, and other business-related master's degrees were considered inferior. This is no more. As noted above, if you want to specialize in a particular area, get a degree in it. If not, get a general MBA, or get an MBA in your desired specialization. The relevance of the degree to your career and professional identity is far more important than the exact designation.

A factor is that an MBA used to be more hard core than it is now.  Decades before, one needed a strong academic background in business before being eligible to apply for an MBA program.  Now there are MBA programs for everyone, many not even requiring prerequisites.

-=Steve=-

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B.S., Info Sys, Charter Oak State College
M.A., Educational Tech Leadership, George Washington University
Doctor of Health Education, A.T. Still University, in progress

Now that is true.  Don't even get my started on the "executive" MBA programs...

MBA requires experience may help you for future purposes. Basically, it's an advantage once you finish the degree, getting job is much more simpler.

Well, personally I am against doing MBAs without work experience(if you search the forum here, you will probably see im not the only one as for doing an MSc and then an MBA.

I think that to get the greatest utility out of an MBA you need some level of experience.  That being said sometimes the experience can come after the degree but the graduate should expect a slower progression towards the "average" salary mark for an MBA in their region.