What is the difference between MBA, MPA and MEM? Which job is better?

MBA (Master of Business Administration) is generally considered as a stepping stone for the business community to enter the management. MBA is to train practical, compound and applied senior management talents who can be competent for the top management of industrial and commercial enterprises and economic management departments.

MEM Master of Engineering Management (MEM for short) is a newly established professional degree on 20 10. Its purpose is to meet the urgent demand for engineering management talents in the development of modern engineering in China, improve the training system of engineering management talents, innovate the training mode of engineering management talents and improve the quality of engineering management talents in China. The training of master of engineering management focuses on providing students with the ability to understand the knowledge in the core management field.

MPA master of management (master? Yes? Public? Administration (MPA) is a postgraduate education project based on public administration and other related disciplines, and its purpose is to train advanced applied professionals for government departments and non-governmental public institutions.

1. The direction of training talents is different.

MBA is mainly a postgraduate major for comprehensive management positions in enterprises, which mainly trains senior management talents in enterprises.

MEM focuses on providing students with the ability to understand the knowledge in the core management field and cultivating compound talents in technology and management. Suitable for managers with technical background, such as industrial manufacturing, Internet and IT, engineering management, construction engineering, etc.

MPA mainly trains management talents in institutions.

2. Different teaching courses.

MBA will study financial management, business management, finance, law and other courses.

MEM has both core courses of management and specialized courses of engineering technology.

MPA will study public management, policy analysis, finance, economics and other courses.

3. Different tuition fees

The MBA of well-known universities is maintained at around 400,000, while that of general universities is basically around 1.6 million. At present, MBA is the major with the longest history of on-the-job graduate students in the economic field and the largest number of applicants, so the tuition fees of MBA majors in the same well-known university are relatively high.

MEM is maintained at about 18W in famous universities and at about 8W in general universities. MEM is a newly launched degree program, and the tuition fees of the same institutions are more cost-effective. However, since its launch, MEM has been sought after and recognized by many technical executives and enterprises, and tuition fees have also increased year by year in recent years.

MPA cost is much lower than MBA learning cost, which is about 60 thousand in general colleges and universities

4. The difficulty of the exam is different.

MBA, MEM and MPA all take part in the national management joint examination, using the same test paper, but the number of people applying for MEM and MPA is relatively small, with less competition and less difficulty than MBA.