Master of Business Administration (MBA) is an internationally recognized degree, covering only business administration disciplines, aiming at cultivating the skills needed for business and management.
A master's degree is a postgraduate degree between a bachelor's degree and a doctorate. A master's degree usually symbolizes the ability to think independently according to his concentration and research field. It can be applied to many disciplines.
They have the following differences:
First, the cultivation direction is different.
MBA is to train practical, compound and applied senior management talents who can meet the needs of high-level management of industrial and commercial enterprises and economic management departments, while other graduate students are to train senior scientific research and teaching talents with solid theoretical foundation and strong scientific research and teaching ability;
Second: the enrollment conditions are different.
MBA students are generally cadres of state organs and institutions, managers and technicians of industrial and commercial enterprises who have graduated from undergraduate courses and have more than three years of practical work experience. Other graduate students can recruit fresh graduates or on-the-job personnel;
Third, the training methods are different.
MBA education is essentially a kind of vocational training, with special emphasis on cultivating students' practical skills through business case analysis, practical observation, analysis and decision-making skills training on the basis of mastering modern management theories and methods, so that students can accept the challenges of knowledge and skills, personality and psychology, goals and aspirations, and have the strength of professional competition.
While other graduate students focus on theoretical study and academic research.
Fourth: the entrance examination is different.
The entrance examination for ordinary postgraduate students is only the "unified examination" at the beginning of the year, and the professional examinations other than the unified examination are put forward and marked by the enrollment unit itself. First written test, then interview. Ordinary master's degrees are divided into master's degrees and special master's degrees. Master's degree is full-time study. Usually three years. Special master: full-time study, with a general academic system of 2-3 years.
Most MBA schools adopt the form of interview in advance, interview first and written test later. Interview in advance is an independent proposition of MBA institutions, and the written entrance examination is divided into on-the-job and off-job ones. On-the-job MBA is the exam of June 5438+ 10, which is slightly less difficult, and only needs to go to class on weekends after admission. However, after reading it, only a degree certificate (MBA degree, that is, a master's degree in business administration) will be issued, and there is no postgraduate degree. Full-time MBA, that is, full-time MBA, is an exam in 1, which is slightly more difficult than the former; After being admitted, you need to file a file and study full-time at school for two years.
Fifth: the tuition fees are different.
According to the different resources, gold content and projects of various institutions, MBA tuition fees range from 60 thousand to nearly 400 thousand. Choose according to your own situation.
If the graduate student is majoring in science, generally all public universities in China are 8000 yuan/year, and the state grant is 6000 yuan/year.
Although there are differences between MBA and other graduate students in the above aspects, they are basically the same in school enrollment and teaching management: they must take the national unified entrance examination and be admitted according to the admission line designated by the state; After obtaining a student status, teaching management is carried out according to the standard of ordinary graduate students; Do a dissertation and get a degree after the thesis defense.