MBA is not a tool that can help us earn that fat paycheck; it is something which helps in our personality development by bringing new perspectives to our mind. It is a transformational journey that can help us figure out some meaning in the meaningless lives of ours.
If you have figured out a good reason as to why you want to pursue an MBA, go on and continue reading this piece.
The trying times mankind is going through will surely pass, if not today then tomorrow. But trust me, this too shall pass. We will get back to being normal, although the new normal would be quite different from the old one but that’s the reality about change, it keeps changing. Keep your eyes and mind open to the technological advances we shall see. And be a learner, keep learning. Doing an MBA in itself is an exhaustive task. More so, is the application process. You will be applying for CAT and other entrance exams to be held by the end of 2020. You probably have already started your preparations and will keep preparing for another 5 to 6 months per se. After taking the exams, you should be ready to have patience for at least a month for the exam results and another 2-3 weeks for the college shortlisting to be declared. After which, you’d have to go through rigorous GD/WAT/PI rounds for different colleges and wait for another 2 months for the final results to be out. (which usually happens by April end and May, at least for top B-Schools of India) This means a final acceptance to any college will take anywhere from 10 to 12 months from now. And having been on the receiving side of these 12 months, trust me, this is a period full of anxiety and uncertainty.
So, before you decide, this, or any other time is the best for doing an MBA, take the aforementioned points into consideration and decide for yourself. Don’t look for validation outside of yourself. Because opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one. Decide for yourself, and do whatever you are comfortable doing. And figure out for yourself, is this really the best time to do an MBA.
That being said, I personally feel, this time is really good to go for an MBA, given the condition you really want to do it. The economy is certainly going into a shock and will struggle to get back for quite some time. While the economy takes care of itself, you can take care of yourself at a B-School and fine-tune your skills. And by the two years, in 2022, hopefully the economy would be booming and that would be the best time for you to enter into the job/business market and make the most out of it.
So, if you have a good reason to do an MBA, this is by far the best time to go for it.
Comments
Agneeshwaran Agneeshwaran
I dont think this article have any valid points or only repetitive points(which are already present in public domain) for consideration for joining or delaying or laying aside the idea of MBA. Insideiim team kindly produce some valuable articles which can gauge well for the aspirans to choose to join or not to join MBA this year. Even to get into a dream B-Schools mostly will assess based on our quantifiable justification on the same lines if we could get a quantifiable answer for whether we should join MBA this year or not will be much helpful
29 May 2020, 10.22 AM
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Pradyumna Uppal
As an avid reader, he loves to read in his free time. He loves to read about different genres and has interest in Indian Politics. Pradyumna has worked with WTW and KPMG before he joined IIM Calcutta for the class of 2024.
Hi, Agneeshwaran. Thank you for your valuable feedback, I'd try to be more precise in the coming articles. Hope you can bear with me for this one.
29 May 2020, 10.43 AM |
Agneeshwaran Agneeshwaran
Hi Pradyumna Uppal. Thanks for your swift response. I as well as other aspirants are expecting upcoming articles on the right time to do MBA
29 May 2020, 11.55 AM |
Pradyumna Uppal
As an avid reader, he loves to read in his free time. He loves to read about different genres and has interest in Indian Politics. Pradyumna has worked with WTW and KPMG before he joined IIM Calcutta for the class of 2024.
Sure, will try to keep this in mind in the future. Thanks.
29 May 2020, 11.59 AM |
Mukesh Kumar
The points that you have gave in this article aren't relevant, you are simply trying to demotivate everyone, like you are also a aspirant then why are you preparing for cat ,if its that exhausting process then you should have got something else. Everything doesn't need a reason,if its someone's passion then these question are useless. And you are simply deviating from your main motive of writing this article.
30 May 2020, 11.20 AMEdited
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Pradyumna Uppal
As an avid reader, he loves to read in his free time. He loves to read about different genres and has interest in Indian Politics. Pradyumna has worked with WTW and KPMG before he joined IIM Calcutta for the class of 2024.
Hi, Mukesh. Thank you for your feedback. From no angle did I mean to demotivate any candidate, my apologies if you felt so. I'll try to be more precise in the coming articles.
30 May 2020, 11.33 AM |
Aditya Trupta Pattanayak
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3 Jun 2020, 02.05 AM