Hi
I am a current law student at Quinnipiac University School of Law and am interested in Business. I applied and was accepted to the school's MBA program to earn a joint JD/MBA degree
In undergrad, I was a political science and history dual major with an international relations certificat. I have pretty much no experience with business. Other than a basic macroecon course, a course on globalization which focused on economics, an international political economy class, and my own reading of various (mostly economic) works by people like Smith, Marx, etc. And I have also taken a basic law course on contracts and a basic one on property. I also was treasurer for two years of a club at my undergrad school that had an annual budget of $27,000 (the highest funded clubs at the time) and my best friend/roommate of 3 years was an accounting major and one of my other roommates was also an accounting major (not that living with them would help me any since we didnt talk about business stuff)... so I have basically no experience or knowledge at all as far as business goes
I was just wondering how much having no real academic or field experience might disadvantage me in obtaining an MBA... I am reading through the course catalog and certain parts seem like gibberish to me and can only make out various very basic words and phrases like capital and "risk and return"... does having no exprience and not fully understanding even the basics really hurt me?
if it does, is there anything I can do over the course of the summer to get a better grip on things? I was planning on taking the first MBA class online over the summer but I might put it off if there is something I should do to prepare for it first
Also, any idea how difficult business school is in comparison to law school? I have heard everything from its about the same difficulty wise to law school is more difficult (my law school friends) to business school is much more difficult (my business friends)... so does anyone know which view is right?
thanks
I am a current law student at Quinnipiac University School of Law and am interested in Business. I applied and was accepted to the school's MBA program to earn a joint JD/MBA degree
In undergrad, I was a political science and history dual major with an international relations certificat. I have pretty much no experience with business. Other than a basic macroecon course, a course on globalization which focused on economics, an international political economy class, and my own reading of various (mostly economic) works by people like Smith, Marx, etc. And I have also taken a basic law course on contracts and a basic one on property. I also was treasurer for two years of a club at my undergrad school that had an annual budget of $27,000 (the highest funded clubs at the time) and my best friend/roommate of 3 years was an accounting major and one of my other roommates was also an accounting major (not that living with them would help me any since we didnt talk about business stuff)... so I have basically no experience or knowledge at all as far as business goes
I was just wondering how much having no real academic or field experience might disadvantage me in obtaining an MBA... I am reading through the course catalog and certain parts seem like gibberish to me and can only make out various very basic words and phrases like capital and "risk and return"... does having no exprience and not fully understanding even the basics really hurt me?
if it does, is there anything I can do over the course of the summer to get a better grip on things? I was planning on taking the first MBA class online over the summer but I might put it off if there is something I should do to prepare for it first
Also, any idea how difficult business school is in comparison to law school? I have heard everything from its about the same difficulty wise to law school is more difficult (my law school friends) to business school is much more difficult (my business friends)... so does anyone know which view is right?
thanks
