An engineering degree will teach you how to apply your knowledge practically. An MBA degree will teach you how to manage people with engineering degrees, who are going to be working for you. MBA is done by students who wish to do a managerial role in future handling various functions related to their choice of industry viz., marketing, sales, operations, finance etc., they work on the planning and strategy part of the business.

Master of Business Administration is now more important for the Engineers. The Engineering council and the various professional bodies now requires chartered Status (cEng), the graduate Engineers must have studied Management at post graduate level in order to attained chartered status. This is also important because the role of the engineer is changing - within an industrial company, the engineer is likely to be the manager that has to implement new practices and new technology. Thus, the engineer often becomes the primary manager of change within the modern organization, which again requires specific skills and learning.

The MBA has given engineers the broad grounding that was missing in their technical degrees. MBA courses are therefore usually only for those graduates with work experience. Sharing this experience in seminar classes is one of the benefits of studying on an MBA for engineering students.

It is important that engineers widen their knowledge and skills in the management area if they wish to become senior managers in manufacturing industry. Having already obtained a technical degree, an MBA completes their education in the wider areas of management that usually include subjects such as finance, marketing, human resource management, organizational behavior, and management strategy. The engineer thus has the opportunity to quickly progress in their career usually through fast track promotion into very senior management posts. for e.g., an engineering industry needs a management executive, who have technical knowledge, hence an engineer fits the bill......an investment or finance firm, needs a student with a finance/accounting background, so students with b.com and MBA-finance suits the purpose....an IT firm needs a student from IT background (BCA, B.tech comp. science etc.,)......and so also goes for all different industry and organisation