Masters Not a Good Idea

[alexf.1990]

The MBA is a general management degree that applies to every field. It's often incorrectly used in attempts to change careers, but it's not a specialist's degree. It's a degree for moving up the ladder. It's too broad to teach anyone how to specialize in anything. Every industry has a need for middle and upper management. 

I cringe every time a WGU MBA is recommended to someone who hasn't even started his or her professional career.

From my research, it appears that the people who are using an MBA to switch careers are entering the program mainly for the networking opportunities. In fact, that appears to be the main advantage of an MBA. An online MBA or executive MBA is really only beneficial if you are trying to move up within an organization you are already a part of. This seems to be the consensus at r/MBA.