Bangladesh, Feb. 28 -- Pursuing an MBA after engineering has become a trend for more than a few decades not only in Bangladesh, but throughout the world. Globally, about one-third of the CEOs of the S&P 500 companies have engineering as their undergraduate degree. The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella is an engineer. So are General Motors' Mary Barra and Amazon's Jeff Bezos. Darren Woods of Exxon Mobil and Tim Cook of Apple also have engineering background, and the list goes on. In fact, engineering is ranked as one of the most popular undergraduate degrees among Fortune 500 CEOs.
Engineering background certainly translates well when coupled with an MBA. An MBA gives an engineer the broader business knowledge to make strategic business decis...