Why only MBA???

Post Engineering, all Engineering students come at crossroads, where they have to make a choice – a choice that defines their career for the rest of their lives: to choose one amongst the options of a job, management or M.Tech, MS. The four most widely used options are management, M.Tech, M.S, MBA or a job. Given the current situation in India, most of the engineering colleges are not able to give a 100% placement, which results candidate making a choice between management, M.S and M. Tech. This article is about choosing the option of post graduation in a technical field. In this article I will try to put some thoughts of mine and some inferences I have made in this regard.

Why does one choose CAT over post graduation in technical field (M.Tech or M.S) or vice versa? To quote the Bible, “A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things”. Most of the students choose management because they perceive that a management person makes more money than a research person. This might have been true in the past. But now that companies like Motorola and Honda are beginning to outsource their R&D to India, the demand for Research oriented people is on the rise. "Virtually every single global IT major is rapidly expanding its footprint into India," says Sunil Mehta, vice president, Nasscom. As of now, 100 Fortune 500 companies - including Delphi, Eli Lilly, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, DaimlerChrysler and others - have put up R&D facilities in India over the past five years. Considering the scenario, post graduation in technical field be it M.Tech or M.S is no longer the underdog. And the number of students giving GATE or GRE has been increasing every year.

One other thing which is observed is the wild rush. If you happen to ask an Engineering student why he or she is preparing for M.B.A the answer is generally friends around me are going for it, Technical stuffs are not meant for me! If this is the situation the day is not far when all the engineering colleges around will be reduced to mere graduating schools where all the students graduating from school invariably end up as M.B.A! It is disheartening to find students graduating from premier technical institutes aiming for management, it is fine if one is seriously influenced by management and thinks that he is better of with management considering his aptitude and work skills but I definitely don’t understand the wild rush. How can a person take such an important decision in his career not even giving a thought over his or her performance in the past, his achievements, things which have fascinated him the most! This is for sure the mindset of the students is greatly influenced by college environment and the present situation is quite well known.

This can only be changed by the students which form the intellectual capital of an institute.

Before summing up I would like to pose some questions

How many nobel laureates are of Indian origin? Do you know how many patents have been filed from Indian origin people? Why our country still lags behind as far as technological exposure is concerned as compared to countries like U.S ,Japan?Why our country still lags in defense research sector? Why is our nation taking so much of time in coming up with an advanced Light combat Aircraft? Why is it taking so much to bring another green revolution? Well the answer for all the above questions is one and the same the lack of people with strong technical expertise.

Being a part of such a premier institute if you wish to do something about this then please do take interest in technical activities keep yourself updated ,naturally one will be fascinated about technical field .Then definitely we will be able to do something good to the nation some day and make our nation proud about it!!