Engineering And Business: A Great Combination For Success

The Many Benefits Of Acquiring Both Engineering And Business Degrees

- Gale Horton Gay

An engineering degree is a highly sought-after academic goal for many, as is a degree in business. Both have the potential to lead to promising careers doing work that’s challenging, meaningful, and lucrative. An increasing number of people are finding benefits in pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree after achieving engineering degrees or enrolling in programs that combine business and engineering studies.

Columbia University offers a Master of Science degree in management science and engineering. The University of Pennsylvania has a Wharton/ engineering dual-degree program, and the institution states on its website that its programs are for students “looking for a career trajectory leveraging the strong combination of business leadership interests and strong technical skills.”

“A combination of the ‘soft skills’ in addition to the ‘hard skills’—accounting and finance from business and ‘technical skills’ from engineering— can open doors in many directions to reach the upper echelons of corporations, domestic and global,” said Fikru Boghossian, Ph.D., dean of the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management at Morgan State University (MSU). The business school is named for