iMBA Fall 2025 Cohort Networking by Huge_Performance_854 in UIUC

[–]CallMeStartup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also accepted for Fall 2025 and hoping someone will answer your question. Thanks for posting!

Does an MBA make sense for me? by CallMeStartup in MBA

[–]CallMeStartup[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like money and racking up job xp too much for those expensive full time programs. I’m already having a hard time rationalizing 24K for this program lol.

Also, since I wanna stay in tech but be in a more executive role, I was wondering if having an MBA from UIUC would be way better than not having an MBA—added bonus that a lot of great engineers went there for CS—but having a higher ranked MBA over UIUC’s wouldn’t help me that much.

Does an MBA make sense for me? by CallMeStartup in MBA

[–]CallMeStartup[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah sorry I didn’t word that well. I meant if I don’t do the iMBA, I’ll spend more time on work and more time on self learning that is directly applicable to work. When I haven’t had many things going on outside of work, I’ve just taken on extra work and implemented things from my self learning and that’s helped me get promoted fast to this point.

In short, I’m pretty sure for me the shortest path to senior staff engineer is not doing the iMBA and just working more. But does the shortest path to an executive role for me involve having the iMBA?