MBA's take about a year to get...
I guess I have a shitty concept of time.
That's why they're a joke now. You pretty much just pay to go to school for an extra year for some letters.
Still means someone went to school and got the letters. I still think a lot of college degrees are bullshit, but it still means someone spent 120-140 credit hours, did some amount of work, passed classes, learned something, and did it all to some unbiased person's level of satisfaction.
I'm a few months away from receiving a philosophy degree. Don't you think I know this?
The problem with MBA degrees is that they don't actually open up as many of those doors that you're assuming that they do. They're held in little regard because many accredited universities have programs where you blaze through the degree in a small amount of time, normally around a year, doing little work for the degree. They were a hot ticket item for awhile, which is what caused the creation of these programs from universities trying to cash in on the rush, but it's not there anymore. If you wanted to get a masters, picking something other than an MBA would be a better course of action as it would show that you put a little more thought into your graduate studies.
Another great course of action for an engineering student is to go into law. If you can handle the law school, there's plenty of money to be made in patent law; however, most engineers don't pull top numbers on the LSAT and engineering programs don't tend to have the inflated GPA's that get individuals into grad school.