BW: If You Know You'll Get An MBA...

Dean Paul Danos via Business Week about the suitability of undergraduate business degrees for MBA programs:

Another problem with using the undergraduate business degree as a stepping stone to the MBA is that it duplicates much of what students will encounter in grad school. Many classes students take as undergraduates, such as economics, accounting, and statistics, are also required for the master's. Some MBA programs allow students who have already taken these to substitute with electives. But few students do, believing they'll miss out on all-important networking. Explains Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business: "MBA programs aren't designed for people who have a lot of formal business training."

Source: Business Week by Geoff Gloeckler May 8, 2006